Jaeger
Member
Greetings everyone.
New rider here and happy to join the group. I've been doing a lot of reading here while slowly moving through the Covid-delayed steps to getting licensed. So much great info - my thanks to the group at large.
As it happened, when my course with MTOHP got delayed due to Covid, and with no re-scheduling in sight, I booked a course with RTI as a backup just to make sure I got through this summer. My MTOHP course happened to get back on track before the RTI course, and I ended up taking both to completion - so I am double-trained - lol!
I have bucked conventional wisdom to a degree with my first bike purchase - a Honda CB650R. But I have found it pretty manageable to this point. As a more mature new rider (57), I am not the least bit tempted to show off or to tap the upper limits of the bike's performance on the street. Heck, 80km / hr feels plenty fast to me on a bike as compared with a car. And because the bike makes real power WAY up in the rev range, a small oops with the throttle isn't going to send me to the moon. Other bikes that reveived serious consideration - Triumph Trident (unobtanium) Kawasaki Z650 and KTM Duke 390.
I've been riding several times a week in the 2 weeks or so that I have had the bike. I'm taking it slow and easy to start out and enjoying every single minute of it so far. My longest ride so far was an early morning run up to Campbellville and back.
I've fully bought into the ATGATT concept - literally and figuratively - so I am kitted out from head to toe. One question on gear - my helmet has a pinlock shield and an internal drop down sun visor. The main shield works brilliantly staying fog free even on muggy mornings, but when I drop down the sun visor, it's almost always fogged up with condesation and thus worse than useless. Is there any coating that would help keep that fog-free?
Happy and safe riding everyone!
New rider here and happy to join the group. I've been doing a lot of reading here while slowly moving through the Covid-delayed steps to getting licensed. So much great info - my thanks to the group at large.
As it happened, when my course with MTOHP got delayed due to Covid, and with no re-scheduling in sight, I booked a course with RTI as a backup just to make sure I got through this summer. My MTOHP course happened to get back on track before the RTI course, and I ended up taking both to completion - so I am double-trained - lol!
I have bucked conventional wisdom to a degree with my first bike purchase - a Honda CB650R. But I have found it pretty manageable to this point. As a more mature new rider (57), I am not the least bit tempted to show off or to tap the upper limits of the bike's performance on the street. Heck, 80km / hr feels plenty fast to me on a bike as compared with a car. And because the bike makes real power WAY up in the rev range, a small oops with the throttle isn't going to send me to the moon. Other bikes that reveived serious consideration - Triumph Trident (unobtanium) Kawasaki Z650 and KTM Duke 390.
I've been riding several times a week in the 2 weeks or so that I have had the bike. I'm taking it slow and easy to start out and enjoying every single minute of it so far. My longest ride so far was an early morning run up to Campbellville and back.
I've fully bought into the ATGATT concept - literally and figuratively - so I am kitted out from head to toe. One question on gear - my helmet has a pinlock shield and an internal drop down sun visor. The main shield works brilliantly staying fog free even on muggy mornings, but when I drop down the sun visor, it's almost always fogged up with condesation and thus worse than useless. Is there any coating that would help keep that fog-free?
Happy and safe riding everyone!
I don't believe the visor is detachable, but I am looking into anti-fog coatings in the hope that it will help. I'll check this one out.
