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Showing Steve some florida curves

Want to trade for a week?
I'll take your riding on flat, smooth surface roads at 70 degrees with a few curves for 100 miles. You can have my hillly, twisty, 38 degree, 40 mile commute with 1" cracks and frost heaves in the roads.
You can even borrow my heated vest....of course come summer, I'll take my cooler temps back.;)
Here's a shot or 2 of my morning commute, showing the smoother roads, but the downhill contours don't really come out in the pics.
I'm usually not one to break up the flow of my ride for pics. Maybe I should get a helmet cam instead of stopping and digging out my cell phone? Even reached speeds of 169 (impressive,ha?...ok, kph...) on the last 5 mile highway stretch. Sorry, didn't mean to hog your thread, but warm temps and flat roads sound like a nice change of pace.....
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Odinist said:
WHOA!!! What's the skinny on that Ferrari bike??
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Don't get too excited, it's just a 1980 Honda CBX. :-\\\

I talked to the guy that rode in on it. Evidently there was a racer in Canada that raced one just like it, back in the day, and this was set up sort of as a tribute to him. I got the impression that it's sort of like our Wes Cooley bikes.

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When I was down in SE Florida (where there are no curves), I met an attorney who was an ex bike racer and owned 4 Bimotas.

He told me local guys went out in the middle of the night and rode around off ramp cloverleafs, so they at least knew what it was like to turn right. He was serious
 
Big T said:
When I was down in SE Florida (where there are no curves), I met an attorney who was an ex bike racer and owned 4 Bimotas.

He told me local guys went out in the middle of the night and rode around off ramp cloverleafs, so they at least knew what it was like to turn right. He was serious
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My son showed me the chicken strips on "Freebie" before he got sold. The left side was worn about to the edge, but the right side still had the molding tips about 3/4" from the edge. Seems there are a lot of roundabouts in his area, and he knows just how fast he can take them before things get nasty.

Sidebar: after Freebie was gone, my son was riding his friend's Boulevard S50. He does not really like it because it won't corner.
How well does it NOT corner? :-k
Let's just say that he was laying down a constant stream of sparks from the floorboard, going around the roundabout,
and I was gaining on him with my Wing, not dragging a thing. :-\\\

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Steve said:
Also there was the first Spyder RT that I had seen. This one comes fully-equipped with saddlebags and trunk:
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Hey Steve, there is a Yamaha dealer here in Indy that has 3 of those on the sales floor. Only one with the luggage package that you are showing. The dealer gave me a sample DVD that shows everything it can do and the bells and whistles. I've become a fan of them however I'm still waiting on some history to see how they perform after they leave the show room. I've also noticed that every now and then I'll see one on E Bay and only getting around 8-9k for them, but that is the "bare" bike.
 
sscott said:
Hey Steve, there is a Yamaha dealer here in Indy that has 3 of those on the sales floor. Only one with the luggage package that you are showing. The dealer gave me a sample DVD that shows everything it can do and the bells and whistles. I've become a fan of them however I'm still waiting on some history to see how they perform after they leave the show room. I've also noticed that every now and then I'll see one on E Bay and only getting around 8-9k for them, but that is the "bare" bike.
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I test rode one last fall and it was different.
It was kind of fun but you would need some serious space in your garage for one.I would have to still have another bike to ride,not sure about it being my primary.
 
I was talking to a guy at work that has one. He said that he found out yesterday that there is an electronic limiter at 7,000 rpm in top gear. :(

Considering that it will hit the 9,500 rpm redline in all the other gears, it's probably a good thing. :-k

I showed a picture of his ride in the "Your Bike at Work" thead:

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Oh, the speedo was showing 110 at the time. :D :eek:

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I think I will get one of those when I'm too old to balance on two wheels.
110 ought to be just fine by then.
 
tkent02 said:
I think I will get one of those when I'm too old to balance on two wheels.
110 ought to be just fine by then.
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Hmmm, 110 in 5th on the B12 would be 5500 rpm. Power band starts at around 6500. LOL

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Yeah, I know, then you get to the end of the on-ramp and check traffic to see if you need to speed up, right? :-\\\

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Steve said:
Yeah, I know, then you get to the end of the on-ramp and check traffic to see if you need to speed up, right? :-\\\

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:D Nah, I just get it up to about 70 slightly before the end of the ramp. If I need +20 or so at that point, its only a sec away. ehe

Earl
 
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