PhilS

Have you just considered taking the forks off yourself and sending them out to a good suspension shop for seals and or other fun work?? I use Rick Tannembaum of Cogent Dynamics (www.motocd.com). He rebuilt my Bandit forks with Racetech Springs/Gold Valves and set them up very well. Just a thought.

Curious as to why you put it up for the season? I run mine all 12 months - clearly is sits in the garage during snow and ice times, but there are MANY 45+ degree days between now and April.

Rather than PM'ing you, I figured this would be good for the group to know as well, unless I'm the only one who is in the dark...... What exactly does ABATE do, and what will the this particular chapter do as its mission and goals?

Hey Brian: I'm here in Hilliard as well and can help with getting your stuff from your condo to the new condo. You got my number and email on your PM. I'm sure if you give a date a bunch of the Ohio Riders guys and others will jump right in and at least make the move very easy in one quick step. Just call or yell man - you can do this!!!

Hi all: Our September ride will take us on a ride from east Columbus to Mid Ohio for the AMA Road Race Grand Championship on Saturday September 12. We meet at Calvary Chapel of Columbus located at 6075 E Livingston Ave in Columbis at 9AM for a 9:30AM launch. Attached is the route to and from as well as the link for the schedule for the weekend. This will be an all day cool event. Hope to see y'all there. http://www.midohio.com/UploadedFiles/5c/5c9c6283-1bd9-4391-9718-19533a9e0f0b.pdf?&nodeguid=9866643d-deb8-4885-87b9-8264d2e30779

weather.com saying 87/74 20% chance of rain. Looks great for Saturday.

Hello everyone: In July the group hit the Coshocton area which was outstanding and we will go back again. The couple hours of hard driving rain on the trek home to Columbus was a bit exciting as well. It’s amazing how much water leathers can hold!! Good news, we now know how well we can trust our tires in puddles. J It’s all good! For August, we figured we would hit up Hocking Hills to McArthur and back focusing on 328 southbound and 278 northbound. We can do the split group again if that worked out well – OR – we can just stop at every stop sign and intersection like we did on our last ride which worked great. Leg one goes from the church at 9:30 and goes 100 miles to McArthur then back up to Nelsonville for lunch. It says 3 hours, but let's get serious with us riding......more like 2 hours 58 minutes!!!! The ride north of Nelsonville in to the National Forest area is very nice, or guys can bug off on 33 to go home for whatever reason. See you at the ride – August 8, Calvary Chapel on Livingston Ave, 9AM for a 9:30AM launch. Later - Phil

Guys/Girls: We are open for suggestions on where to go for the next ride coming up in less than 4 weeks. As usual, we launch at 9:30 from Calvary Chapel on Livingston and Brice on the east side on the second Saturday of the month. This month we shot up to Coshocton and experienced some severe roads challenging us and causing some butt-puckering moments. The ride up was great and the ride back was in a terrential downpour which gave us an "opportunity" to test our severe rain riding techniques and explore our confidence level in our tires!!! All worked well in both cases. Round trip, it was about 170 clicks. The month before we shot down to the far southeast (not Asia but close). That day discovered some great roads not normally seen as the total trip was around 300 clicks, on sportbikes, in one day, and most of it twisty in the region. That makes for a good long sore butt and back ride. Next month is open for now. We have not really hit northwest or southwest Ohio due to a perception, or reality, that there are not really any good twisty roads around there that can "add up" to a good ride's worth to fill up a day - and, ones that you don't have to ride 100 miles from Columbus to find. That being said, anyone have any ideas? There is always the ride to Hocking/McArthur and back up giving us 190 miles with 30 or so each way getting to and from the good roads. We will take suggestions and post up a route soon. Thoughts, anyone, anyone, Buehler? PhilS (07 Bandit)

I needed that! Thanks. Clearly, given enough space on the road and in the absence of on-coming traffic, you would run circles around me at any speed. Actually riding behind you allowed me to pick better lines and challenge myself to improve and trust on left hand turns. Great riding with you. Now, on to an August 8 ride. - See the new thread.

Don't you mean "when I got up there and overtook you?" ha ha. The videos all turned out very shakey and buzzy due to the homemade mount. I will be buying a "sportbikecam" mount soon......

I have a 2007 Suzuki Bandit 1250. The speedometer was about 7% off from the factory, but the odometer was about 5% off checked with GPS as described below - odd how they were not linear. Then I dropped a tooth up front and everything became worse as expected. I "chose" to make the odomter correct with the healer as I was not really interested in an exact speed. I tested it with GPS on a "straight flat" 10 mile stretch of freeway to rule out tire sidewall issues as well as turns where the GPS mile counting may get screwy. I now have set the SpeedoHealer at -7.9% correction so the ODO is perfect (or as darn close as one could) and the speedo reads about 4mph fast at 60MPH.

Well then. Turns out there was 5 of us all together. Phil, Jim, Todd, Ebon, and Doug. The ride from east Columbus to Newark/79 was a bit boring and straight. 79 North of Newark started showing some signs of fun. Then 586 to 541 was a blast as we started to open things up. Then 541 part one to 79 was good. 79 to 36 was great. 36 to 60 was ok. 60 back down from 36 to 541 was outstanding!! Then 541 into Coshocton was good but we had a law enforcement officer pull out ahead of us to, well, uh, keep things calm. We lunched in Coshocton at the highly acclaimed "Wendy's" then it started to rain. And it rained big. We rode 16 all the way back to 37/70 and home - in big rain. I was amazed at how heavy the leathers get after soaking up a few gallons of water!!!!! Avon Storm ST's - great dry - great wet (now I know). Also, returned home without a single bug on the bike!!!!

JPG of the ride attached.

I did bring it up, mainly as I am not a knee scraping expert like a lot of you......but I'm learning. See y'all next Saturday at 9AM.

Ebon: I am planning on riding this with you all. It sucked missing the last ride, but some family stuff took me out that weekend - even though I planned the route!!! Sorry!!! 541/Coshocton is a great ride. I've done this many times and for some unexplained reason, I have not crashed. There are a few spots on that road that one might be able to see the top speed of one's bike (of course up to the legal limit.......of course). How did the slow group/fast group concept of the last ride work? Or not work? Good choice - see ya then.

So here's a question for y'all (or you all)........ Around the Columbus area somewhere....what is your favorite road to practice some good turns. What I'm looking for are some turns/roads with good visibility in all stages of the turn, little traffic, and good run-off just in case you screw up. What I'm really looking for are some good public road curves that are "track like" without going to the track. I've been using some "traffic circles" on early Saturday and Sunday mornings when it's dead to essentially make my own "track". Problem being, it's all left turns!!! What's your favorite place? Phil

Ebon: Saw the crash video! Let's not repeat that fun on June 13. PhilS

We got split up around Amesville somewhere and I got a on some road that led me to 555 then on to 37 by accident.......OOOPS!!!! I ended up riding 555 past 78 then again somewhere near 669. Although, I heard two guys went down and the bikes didn't make it home. Ebon - Was one of them you? Everyone OK? Other than that - great bunch of guys and a great ride. John on his Gold Wing was out-riding most guys!!! Go Figure! Phil

Hi Guys: The CSBA will be riding again on Saturday May 9, 2009. Every second Saturday of the month we will be doing a Chapter Ride. The starting location will be Calvary Chapel of Columbus located at 6075 E. Livingston Ave, Columbus, Ohio 43232. The rides will begin at 9:00 am. Here is a link to the map of the ride: http://www.oh-csba.com/images/May_9_Ride.PDF This ride starts in Columbus at 9AM and rides down through Hocking Hills and back up 555 - which of course is an outstanding ride. Route is as follows: Start to 256 256 to 204 204 to 13 13 south to Glouster for lunch 13 south again to 329 329 to 550 550 to 555 555 north to 78 (outstanding leg of the ride) 78 to 60 60 up to 16 16 back into Columbus Total ride is 210 miles. Everyone welcome to ride. See ya then...... Here is a link to the CBSA Ohio site. http://www.oh-csba.com/home.html PhilS

I'll be with you guys on the 9th. I amy ride to 555 on the 2nd as well. Anyone riding anywhere on the 2nd?

I'm sure it will do far better than I in the corners. I am ramping myslef up to leaning more and trusting more. First step was to fix the front end with some good fork parts (happening now) followed up by a course taught by Lee Parks (Total Control Advanced Riding Clinic) in Lansing end of June this year. I don't trust the bike enough yet. Embarrassing as this is to admit, i had a guy on a 250 motard kick my butt last year in the twisties of Hocking Hills!!!! The only, and I mean only, time I passed him was when I hit about 115 going around him on a straight portion of the road near some lake.....shortly after that I was back to chasing that dang 250!!!! Onward....

The quality of the Holeshot pipe is very good. I bought it to give the bike some sound and drop the huge stock pipe. I have no idea what it do or didn't do for performance. If I needed performance, I woul drop 70 lbs off my gut and start there first!!!! Dale Walker at Holeshot is outstanding. He custom developed the mid-pipe to fit the snap on GIVI bags so the slip on clears it. Dale's availability and technical support is unsurpassed.

Hello Rusty - very cool bike you have there. This is Phil - I was the guy showing up on my wife's Rebel for the sake of making you all laugh......it worked. I plan on making the rides as well starting next month. There was a guy on a Gold Wing amongst all those sport bikes. How did he do??? This is my bike...........currently waiting on forks to come back from the shop. This is you guys at the ride yesterday. My wife's Rebel is lower right. The bike is WAY too small for anyone - especially me!!

Hi Guys/Girls: I just joined today. I saw a sticker on a guys bike about this website and decided to chck it out. I ride a 2007 Suzuki Bandit 1250S picured below. It is currently out of commission due to having the forks modified at Cogent Dynamics. Peformance wise, the bike is stock other than the Holeshot slip on. Others mods.......a bunch. Looking forward to riding together......Phil