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    The 26 mile road to work.

    After about two weeks chasing Blender on his Honda Hawk 450 and Nerobro on his '80 GS550e, I decided to take the plunge. This morning I actually left the cage in the street parked and neglected and took the bike to work. With the hurculean effort it takes on the clutch it made shifting a bit dodgy but all in all it was a good ride. I kept myself out of the way of the cars and mini-vans, got a couple nods and a wave (of which I did return).

    I never realized the diffrence in driving between my car and the bike before. I've never driven on a road I was that intimate with. All the corners I took at 45 or 50 in the car that were at least semi-exciting were rather boring and ho-hum on the bike. About the only thing that spooked me is on Rt.31 in Elgin there's kind of a long right hander that has a "speed bump" in about the apex of the corner. It's about a 4 inch rise and in the car it's nothing but on the bike she bucked pretty good under me. I was on the pegs and not the seat so much so the bike mostly just moved under me but it was enough for the "pucker factor" to go up a few notches.

    I can't wait for the ride home.

    #2
    Nothing quite like it man
    I feel you.

    Rock on!

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      #3
      Stay loose with your weight distributed between feet, hands, and seat and just let the bike buck and jump and it'll find it's own way. You'll get used to it.

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        #4
        sweet!! I've got one of those bumps in the worst turn on my route too!! why would you need a sewer cap in a banked right turn anyway?!?!?

        soon you'll be ready to sell the cage for good!!

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          #5
          To stop crazy f'ers like us from taking the corner at mach 1.

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