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01-28-2008, 08:30 PM | #16 |
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Haven't done parking lot practice since the advanced MSF course on a different bike years ago. I'm looking for the next opportunity to do so, and am paying more attention to my sharp turns. Thanks Dan.
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01-28-2008, 09:41 PM | #17 |
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oh the humanity!!! I cringe when I hear anything scrape or nick on my bike...even road debris that might fly up.
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01-28-2008, 10:09 PM | #18 |
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Todd I can relate. I know that's part of what's going on with me.....I don't want to do anything to scratch/damage the Nomad.
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01-28-2008, 11:24 PM | #19 |
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I don't mind the scrapes at all. If you walked up and looked at my bike, not knowing that I do this, you wouldn't see a thing.
To see anything from this parking lot practice, you'd have to get down on all fours and look up under the floor boards. The 1500's had those nuts on the bottom that wore first, I got some hardened replacements and would replace them before they got all the way down to the floorboards. I may still have a few for one of you 1500 owners, next time I see one of you :) I've thought about drilling and tapping a hole for them on the 1600, so that it's not the actual floorboard scraping. |
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01-29-2008, 09:52 AM | #22 | |
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Any slower and you'll fall over, any faster and you'll run too wide. As tight as those turns are, you have to keep on "catching" yourself as you go around by letting a little more clutch out. Next time I go for a ride, I'll glance at the speedo. [/quote:ftqd7nn4] I went and had a look at the video today and notice a spot where this is evident. At 1:25 in the clip you can here a scrape, pause, scrape. That is an instance where I would have felt that I was going too far down while scraping, so I let out a little more clutch (no scraping sound). Then immediately went back down and you hear more scraping sound. So in that particular section you hear, scrape, no scrape, scrape. If you could see the clutch lever it would have coincided with the scrape sounds looking like, further in, further out, further in. We're talking about small movements here, not large ones. While in the circle I'm probably using the middle third of the clutch range of motion, and staying in the middle third through that whole scrape, no scrape, sequence. Just using different parts of that one third area. |
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01-29-2008, 12:21 PM | #23 |
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don't you use the brake ( rear) as part of the tight manuvers too? I think what you're adjusting is the amount of clutch/brake/throttle all at the same time.
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If you are not doing super tight turns, you don't need the rear brake, though it may make it easier to learn. But for very tight turns, I find that the rear brake is helpful, but I don't modulate it, I just drag it. Therefore, all speed control is done with the clutch. Dragging the brake is done at a constant pressure, the throttle is held at a constant rpm, it is the clutch that is controlling how fast you go, and whether you are minutely accelerating, or decelerating. |
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Are you coming to the Western Rally? I wanna live demo.
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Is that good enough sales pitch?
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01-31-2008, 03:22 PM | #27 |
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Impressive bit of riding.
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Is that good enough sales pitch? [/quote:xgr0xkqb] Not bad..... but Wolfman has secured Miss Nevada for the Western Rally!!! |
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Not bad..... but Wolfman has secured Miss Nevada for the Western Rally!!![/quote:rr5kztwg]
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01-31-2008, 10:06 PM | #30 |
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Ok Dan.... Been practicing a little... Now you've got me draggin floor boards when I make normal turns... Ugh... first time I was wondering what the noise was.... A couple more times and it was no big deal. I WILL NOT BE CLIMBING DIRT MOUNTAINS ON MY NOMAD!!! LOL!
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