Uncle Punk

Obvious winner is obvious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLOHSbkfELw

I now have the perfect comment to make at a Ducati rider making too much noise.

Couldn't agree more. They sound like the bike is broken from the moment they start up. Mechanical sounding like throwing ball bearings into a transmission.

Thanks for the updates! Were you the one that broke this place last weekend?

https://www.instagram.com/p/C74cvGzg_9c/ Not my video obviously but it is my bike in the video. Don't know when the follow-up YouTube video will be put up but I can give this spoiler. BMW M1000XR weighs 497 pounds with a full tank of gas. 191 horsepower and 84 FT LBS with a BT-Moto flash.

That is a man that's been married for a long time and expects it to stay that way. Even if I had tire left today I wouldn't have been able to ride because we have a wedding to go to at 4:00 that's a 55 minute drive away. It's a beautiful morning guys, have fun giggling on your adventures.

And another thing. We used communicators for the ride Friday. It was refreshing to hear the reactions to our Ohio roads. I had no idea there was so much giggling on motorcycle rides!

Look at the Goldwing salesman pointing out facts that the Goldwing tires last ten times longer than the stupid single compound track tire that BMW chose to put on the MXR. 1,500 miles on a tire is criminal especially since 1,000 miles of that were under some form of RPM restrictions. At minimum I'm going to find some sort of dual compound tire when replace the set. Perhaps if I add 300 pounds of Goldwing weight to my bike it would increase the mileage on the tires. Some sort of old man math voodoo that I don't possess yet. I was disappointed to miss the chance to meet an RT today......oh and see Pauly too. If tomorrow's weather is as perfect as today's weather it will be a great day for everyone. Speed safely!

For future reference 440 three four three 56 fifty two

Sorry for flaking out on you guys last night on here. I got on using my phone which I hate doing. Once we made contact at the hotel thanks to Pauly I didn't get bock 9n here until I just got home now. Rode about three hours today and got all the life that rear tire had to give. It was great see you again Doc and meeting your friend Dave. He sure isn't shy and for some reason he kept calling me Jesus, how rude.

I'm a the hotel. Someone have Doc call me, I don't have his number

Ordinarily I would be all over this but I just don't have enough rear tire to make it to New Concord and back home without being on cords. I have an appointment to drop the bike off June 3rd for a new tire and to have some crash protection added along with a Bren tune. The Friday Marietta option is intriguing. I could trailer down for that. It's a three hour drive without a trailer so I would probably tow down the night before. Post up when you figure out where you are staying. "We haven't booked rooms yet" Are you traveling with family or bringing motorcycle friends to check out Ohio roads?

I love the idea of a trip like this but she will NOT ride on the back of my current bike. And I already know the answer for that is GOLDWING!

Everyone is telling me the carbon fiber wheels are giving it the feel of transitional control but I only have the '16 SXR to compare it too. I added a lot of extras to the '16 that surely add up to some weight plus there is a factory difference of 35lbs, there has to be at least a 50lb difference between the two bikes and possibly more. Another factor into the handling differences is the new bike is on sticky sport bike tires when I ran sport touring tires on the '16 XR. I can't find the correct gear to enter corners either which is messing with my head. I expected more power but what I really wanted was to allow some form of wheel spin while leaned over without having to turn off the ABS and Traction Control completely so I could feel some drive out of corners. The '16 SXR didn't drive until the bike was upright, I have that drive now along with the power and weight reduction which wasn't really needed. This is more than I bargained for but in a good way maybe. I'm going to have a long transition into understanding this new speed threshold and handling character. I hope when I get it all figured out and comfortable with what it has to offer the thing doesn't end up putting me in jail.

I have probably watched every RT video on youtube. While I was waiting for this new bike come in and not knowing when it was coming I was determined to be riding by May this year. The dealers didn't have a delivery date so I started looking for what else was interesting. That list was the Ducati V4 Rally or the RT. Sills had a used 2020 that was sold by the time I got a chance to go ride it.

Currently deep discounts plus a $500 manufacturer rebate on the Kawasaki ZX4RR get them while they are cheap!!!

Do you still have the GS? I can't keep up with everything around here.

Having a HD Roadking Classic for a few years even though it was twenty years ago taught me that weight wasn't something I liked. Which is why I haven't really wanted a Goldwing or K1600. The RT is 200 pounds lighter than the Goldwing which at this time 600 pounds seems manageable. That might be too much to handle when I'm 70 but that will be something time will tell. I do know that the weight difference between the '16 SXR and the '24 MXR is noticeable. I've already been looking to add a sporty car to the mix but don't have the room to keep a couple extra cars. I'm currently having a 1969 Chevelle SS restored that has been in the family since 1984. My brother bought it when he was in San Antonio for officers school, he sold it to my dad because he need money for college. My father passed in 1993 so my brother bought it back from the estate. My brother passed in 2020 and I inherited it in pieces because my brother had started restoring it. It's going to be a nice old car but won't scratch the itch of a fun back roads car. I won't be able to get rid of the car to make room for a fun car until my brother's daughter gets settled down and has a place to keep it.

The problem with that is it lightens up the front too much to make the quick left/right when you are bouncing out from behind the car in front of you. Plus it has a similar power dip although most likely won't be affected by it because 1st gear will put you fairly high up in the RPM range. ^One day this will be the answer.^ I have a GS or RT in front of it though. Hopefully by the time I'm done with this current bike BMW will have backlit controls, Apple carplay or android auto plus horsepower to at least equal the HD Pan America. Once that experience is completed I should be a very old man and ready to slow things down with a Goldwing.😉 I kept my last two bike eight years each so that Goldwing purchase might be an 80th birthday present to myself.

Wow! I wanted a rowdy bike because I felt the '16 was too restrictive and for now I have gotten more than I bargained for. I rode yesterday for around 325 miles, the last 175 miles of which had no restrictions so I was able to use the entire 14,600 RPM range. The bike seems so fast that I am actually using the built in electronic restrictions that are allowing me to comprehend the speed which things are happening. The last 2,500 to 3,000 RPMs in the rev range are indescribably more powerful than any bike I've ever ridden and I've had a ZX12R, Hayabusa, CBR1000RR plus spent a lot of time riding a ZX14R. I usually ride a pace that doesn't require a lot of braking into corners but this bike builds speed so easily that I found myself using the brakes entering corners way more often than anticipated. The extra bodywork with the downforce wings have a negative side effect of giving the bike a bigger side profile that allow the bike to be blown around an uncomfortable amount at high speeds on narrow county roads. I am going to have to find out better setting for the suspension because it's currently too jarring at high speeds on bumpy roads. This is going to sound dumb after I said all that but I definitely need to have this bike tuned. Not to get any extra power but to remove the HUGE power loss in 2nd gear. This is where most of the passing occurs on back county two lanes and it feels unsafe to pull out to pass in 2nd gear to be met with no power until you are halfway past the vehicle you are passing. It's unnerving when there is traffic approaching from the other direction. Also this is going to be expensive to maintain. 1,183 total miles and it has maybe 250 to 300 miles left on the rear. It's a 200/55ZR-17 tire at round $300. I was getting anywhere between 1,800 miles to 2,200 miles on a set of tires with the CBR1000RR. When I got the S1000XR I started getting 3,000 to 3,500 miles on sport touring tires. This is going to be worse than the CBR for replacing tires plus the stupid wheels are carbon fiber so I'm going to be paying for tire changes instead of doing them myself and taking the chance of messing them up.

Don't know if it's a myth or not. Some get by just fine ignoring the manufacturers recommendations and some have troubles getting engine replacements because of not following the recommendations. My new bike had some limitations, under 7K for 200 miles, under 9K for four hundred miles, under 11K for four hundred miles, no full throttle for the first 600 miles. I adhered to those limits except for the no full throttle recommendation. This allowed me to get comfortable with the new bike and discover it's capabilities progressively. I certainly found new limits in handling and setup for corner entry during each advancement up the RPM scale. I'm not saying that I'm right following the recommendations but I'm certainly not wrong. This has been a shit show among the BMW folks.

Don't look it's just poor rejected little ole me.

No doubt you made the correct choice. Sorry to hear about a kidney loss. That certainly had to have been a worrisome time, glad to hear that you are still able to enjoy life with a new bike on the other side. I did my midlife crisis 15 years ago. Make sure you don't leave anything on the table when you go through yours. It gets harder to do what you think you can do as you get older.

A little disappointed that you didn't go with the 400 but am absolutely sure you made the correct choice. With the 400 price and narrow focus it needs to be a side chic not your main squeeze. Congratulations! Nothing like a new bike to distract you for hours even when you aren't riding. LOVE that colorway!!!

Not my video but it is my bike. https://www.instagram.com/p/C6MLYxvL6ET/?hl=en