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Who's still riding? Fall & Winter 2022 (& 2023!) edition!
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I reject your reality, and substitute my own.
Mad Mike
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Did that come from the Beaverton?View attachment 66169
Woohoo!
Possible ‘Heatwave’ to End February in Ontario?
Are you ready to feel the heat, Ontario? 🥵 Confidence is growing for another surge of warmer temperatures as we move into the final week of February. Despite many enjoying a taste of winter weather last week across Southern Ontario, it seems that was merely a brief pause in the mild winter we haveinstantweatherinc.com
If we get some rain to clear the latest round of salt off the road between now and then, I feel a mental health day coming on. I see 17's and 18's up north. An Algonquin loop in February would sure be kick ass.
I’m booking my flight to Moosonee… looks like the James Bay coast will be more pleasant than Florida next week.
Ride home at 8-10 degrees this afternoon will be better yet.
I'd love to get out but the amount of salt they threw down out in my neck of the woods was a bit insane. It's literally in piles in some places and is now getting crushed by cars and turned into airborne dust.
Hopefully some rain on Thursday washes the roads a bit before the warm temps next week.
Max527
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Yeah, tons of salt everywhere. I'm riding my bike 85k into the ground or until it dies. Salt or no salt. Bring it
Yeah, tons of salt everywhere. I'm riding my bike 85k into the ground or until it dies. Salt or no salt. Bring it
Yeah, usually I'm mostly the same, but even I have limits, and the amount of salt right now is just nuts. I rolled down my window on the way to work this morning and could literally taste it in the air coming up off the road from the truck in front of me. Getting some on the bike, meh - getting literally coated in it including me and all my gear, and breathing it, well, maybe past that line.
PacoT
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It's a beauty. I hope to get a glance of this bike, but I also want to see a 890 SMT in the flesh
I had to drink a glass of water after reading that description.
sburns
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I haven't bother with stabilizer in years. I didn't even put my bike on the charger this year as well. Seems good. But yeah getting close!
What's happening with the HD? Waiting on parts? Deep storage while you think about it? Slowly pecking away at the list?
sburns
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I haven't had time to go and order the parts. Might be able to get on that within the next week or so.
Also need to source out a special tool, for pin on the cylinder head.
Yeah basically slowly pecking away.
But I have to tell ya, having the vStrom is great, just hop on a go. No worries.
bigpoppa
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This is how you say hakuna matata in japanese : Shinpai nai
sburns
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I won't say anymore, I don't want to jinx myself.
I said F it and went out after work. Got a decent little 100+km loop around Scugog in. It was the first real "relax a little and let the bike stretch its legs" ride on the new Yammy, so it was filled with all the usual first decent-ride-on-a-new-bike observations.
- I'd heard these bikes were torque monsters but holy hell it caught me off guard the first time I really rolled into it hard coming out of a corner. This thing pulls like a bloody freight train at only 2200RPM. Yeah, I'm feeling every one of those 170 foot pounds. Woohoo! <Smile on face, proceeds to repeat 4 or 5 times for ***** and giggles>
- What's that noise, WTF, is that the engine? Slight panic. Oh, no, it's just the fuel hatch cover vibrating at a certain RPM. Mental note to add a piece of felt or something to stop that from happening.
- Are the front brakes grabby or is it just my thick gloves and new bike unfamiliarity resulting in bodgy control movements. (It was the latter)
- Holy **** the seat heater is too hot on high for too long. Too cool on low. Still too hot on medium after 10-15 minutes. Thankfully all 3 levels can be further refined in the infotainment unit settings menus, so now low = 2, medium =4, and high =10. Grips also adjustable the same for H-M-L.
- Another "What's that noise" when decelerating with the clutch in at one point Oh, just the belt, no biggie, mental note to check tension later.
- Scraped floorboards for the first time in a corner, it's proving to be an easy bike to get comfortable on.
- It's so refined that it's insanely easy to speed without any realization that you're speeding, especially when you've got the windshield in the full up position and all the wind deflectors pushing air away from you. I thought I was doing around 90 at one point and looked down and saw, uh, in excess of 90 lol.
- It does NOT feel like a 950 pound bike once you're rolling, it actually feels more nimble than either my Vulcan and my VTX for that matter. Whatever sorcery Yamaha performed on these bikes, it handles amazing for being a tank. I'd read a lot about that and now I'm a believer.
- Windshield fully up = just a tiny bit too low to fully hide behind in rain, but moves 98% of the air over my head so I might be overthinking it, but it's not quite high enough that I feel I'd be fully behind it without slouching down in the seat. Fully down = not as low as I'd like. Power windshield is cool beans regardless and I'll reserve judgement on the heights.
- I reset the fuel economy displays before the ride and came back showing an average of 5.2L/100km over 110km or something like that which I'm super impressed with considering I wasn't exactly taking it easy, and it was trending down even more over the last half of the trip. This should easily yield 450-500'ish km ranges with the 25L tank.
- I'd heard these bikes were torque monsters but holy hell it caught me off guard the first time I really rolled into it hard coming out of a corner. This thing pulls like a bloody freight train at only 2200RPM. Yeah, I'm feeling every one of those 170 foot pounds. Woohoo! <Smile on face, proceeds to repeat 4 or 5 times for ***** and giggles>
- What's that noise, WTF, is that the engine? Slight panic. Oh, no, it's just the fuel hatch cover vibrating at a certain RPM. Mental note to add a piece of felt or something to stop that from happening.
- Are the front brakes grabby or is it just my thick gloves and new bike unfamiliarity resulting in bodgy control movements. (It was the latter)
- Holy **** the seat heater is too hot on high for too long. Too cool on low. Still too hot on medium after 10-15 minutes. Thankfully all 3 levels can be further refined in the infotainment unit settings menus, so now low = 2, medium =4, and high =10. Grips also adjustable the same for H-M-L.
- Another "What's that noise" when decelerating with the clutch in at one point Oh, just the belt, no biggie, mental note to check tension later.
- Scraped floorboards for the first time in a corner, it's proving to be an easy bike to get comfortable on.
- It's so refined that it's insanely easy to speed without any realization that you're speeding, especially when you've got the windshield in the full up position and all the wind deflectors pushing air away from you. I thought I was doing around 90 at one point and looked down and saw, uh, in excess of 90 lol.
- It does NOT feel like a 950 pound bike once you're rolling, it actually feels more nimble than either my Vulcan and my VTX for that matter. Whatever sorcery Yamaha performed on these bikes, it handles amazing for being a tank. I'd read a lot about that and now I'm a believer.
- Windshield fully up = just a tiny bit too low to fully hide behind in rain, but moves 98% of the air over my head so I might be overthinking it, but it's not quite high enough that I feel I'd be fully behind it without slouching down in the seat. Fully down = not as low as I'd like. Power windshield is cool beans regardless and I'll reserve judgement on the heights.
- I reset the fuel economy displays before the ride and came back showing an average of 5.2L/100km over 110km or something like that which I'm super impressed with considering I wasn't exactly taking it easy, and it was trending down even more over the last half of the trip. This should easily yield 450-500'ish km ranges with the 25L tank.
So long as the weather plays nice tomorrow after work, I'm riding it over to it's new owners place in Ajax tomorrow evening. There's some possible flakes in the forecast however, so that may get scratched if so. Next window will be Saturday, although it's supposed to be -17 tomorrow night (wtf?) with Saturdays high only -5, but meh, still fine with proper gear for a poke along Highway 2 basically, I don't even need to get on the 401 for that trip, so Saturday will probably be the day.
I'm at that sorta kinda sentimental stage now where I don't want to say goodbye. Like my VTX and other bikes before it, they all hold memories of awesome trips in days past.
65,000 trouble free kilometers in 3 riding seasons of ownership, and I didn't sell it for a ton less than I paid for it, so no complaints. All things must come to an end, and the last thing I need is 2 tanks in the garage. It is what it is.
I hope the new owner rides it. The fellow who bought my old VTX barely did - I saw it for sale last fall and it only had 1000km or something more than I sold it with on it in 2 years.
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