NinjaDoc

honda africa twin? 

my guess would be triumph xrx ? 

looks like no takers from west side,  its just us east siders. We will just head down south directly from east end and no meet in bolivar. Ed and Rick we will communicate through text on specifics. 

1 hour ago, TimTheAzn said:

Nah, you got shit to do the sunday after. I'm telling you man, rest.....

end of fall, i am like a dying man craving for oxygen,  to get as much miles as possible before the snow flies  

dont worry tim, i will cut short in middle and head back early home to rest up. If i can get at least 5 hour sleep i be golden for sunday. Done long rides after 48 hr straight no sleep binging on 5 hr energy. Not proud of it, just was lucky but still its crazy  

5 minutes ago, Tonik said:

I have always wanted one of these, but without a street title I don't see it happening.

You should PM op regarding title status

24 minutes ago, TimTheAzn said:

I used to live there. Awesome place. I just wished I was riding back when I lived there. Now as an adult, looking back, I'm REALLY salty I wasn't riding back then. 

But there is no track close by to it right?

Just wonder if you ever get a chance/ or are interested in moving/ or researched or know about different location, where would you move to in USA ? 

As motorcycling fanatic obviously a parameter is close proximity to twisty roads and great riding weather year round. But family objectives takes  priority as well like reasonable infra structure and facilities, safe community, good schooling, reasonable cost of living etc 

Any of you folks ever thought about a location you would be interested in moving to? 

Hope to be there. 🤙🏽 Thx again for doing this  shoop 

@Shoop it doesn’t matter  if only two show up or 15 ( which I think is the max number of active riders on street we have  ) 

will be an an awesome day with amazing weather 🤙🏽

2 hours ago, 2talltim said:

I too hope to be doing some BRP/Gap this weekend but right now it's not looking promising..AGAIN. If I don't go Sunday is the only day I can ride. 

 timmay, one of these days we will ride sunday  for sure 👍, as of now this coming sunday is family time   

dayum, some one should buy this now ....

@TimTheAzn

I know what your doing 

6 hours ago, B-Mac said:

☹️Can't make it Doc. Wife and I will be riding southbound on the  Blue Ridge and east into VA.

The weather looks great.

Enjoy brian, best time for family trip there 👍 hopefully in year 2035 I get to do these trips like you and tonik 

1 minute ago, Pauly said:

Why are you apologizing? I am not offended. Enjoy your ride. 

guessing you out of town?

But if you can make it i will gladly come out early too. I know you prefer early starts. 

50 minutes ago, Nebbors said:

I think I'll come. I'm a lot more comfortable with speed since my TAT trip this summer. probably no where near your crazy speeds but I won't make you wait tons either.

 

I'll be on my new (to me) street(ish) bike.

will be good to see you again, long time since last time. Pace will be medium mostly and wick it up a bit in clean good roads. I was just exaggerating a tiny tinge above. which i am starting to regret, should have just said ride your own pace  

39 minutes ago, Pauly said:

Ridiculously dangerous? I think that is a reach. Not one time last week was I afraid for my life. 

Nevertheless, I hope you have a good ride. Speed safe. 

sorry pauly, was not at all criticizing or referring to that ride at all. That was perfectly good and expected fast ride and passes for our standards. when i said specipaulified - I was just borrowing your phrase "unnecessarily fast" and adding my own exaggeration for prose.  

I wish the above posts were referring to weather. 63 next month 62 in Jan, .

Still early Happy birthday to all the geezers, you guys better start acting your age on the motorcycle 🤣 freaking ASS hols >> Adv Styled Speeding hooligans 

Decided against my better judgment to post a ride. So thought might ask for open quorum like ride. Thinking or riding 10-5 this coming Saturday, 

why open quorum, at this point in OR mostly every one knows plenty of good routes and how to have fun. So even in scenario only one guy show up or 10 or the guy who posted couldn’t make it 😆, it shouldn’t affect anything. The ride will still happen with just a simple discussion on the spot. 

attgat as always in case random strangers and new to OR folks are reading this 

meet: most likely bolivar if any west side guys interested to join 

time: meet around 10:30, delayed due to “chilly dampen road”  kind day in morning. Don’t want to haul heated gear and tippy toe around sliding asphalt by starting way early. 

Route: will decide on the go, twistisfaction guaranteed. Fuel break every 80-90 miles. 

pace: moderate to fast 

NOT at all suitable for new riders. But “new to motorcycling guys” feel like joining, I suggest only  If you really have a balanced head and well checked and controlled ego. Never ever never try to keep up we will wait for you next corner 100% when we started out somebody waited for us. And we took our time and hence still riding. ( mostly because we been lucky)  

dont know now why I always Write a big wall of text. I was literally about to delete all of this and just put a date and a time. But it took me a while to type all this crap out in the phone I’m not gonna delete anything. 

@Shoop thank you for posting this. Hopefully 12 gets selected and I can make it. Weather after first half of October seems tricky, with prediction for cold sweeping in by end of the month. Then again it’s the weather. 

If I remember correctly i once read  Ohio has a large motorcycle market only surpassed by California. Need to google that again. May be that’s why this is the central focus with good approach to surrounding states. 

Welcome  

15 hours ago, Killer_kaw said:

After a damp morning commute on sketchy tire there will be no budget tires going on the bike. Gonna try the road 5 since they currently have a rebate. 

Gary, is this your first bike with TC. It was mine, and Yamaha TC not that clean and unobtrusive it seems. You will feel like the grip is funny as if riding through hot tar snake. I kept on getting that I thought it was a bad tire giving this squirmy feel. Changed tires and still still got it and finally realized it’s the TC kicking in.

Of course well worn tires with belt seen there is no question about needing new tires. 

1 hour ago, what said:

Suspension settings are situational to the rider, the track, the bike, the tires, the temperature, etc. "By the book" or canned settings you find online are generally trash, you have to have someone with a feel for all of the things listed above either tell you what to do or do it for you for a properly set up suspension. @Hoblick was just telling me that Dave Moss offers a remote suspension service for a nominal fee. Ryan is also good with setting up suspensions, so if you're (Doc) ever down this way on a ride I'm sure he'd be willing to help you out. Here I am volunteering his time for him 😂

56 minutes ago, TimTheAzn said:

+1 for setting it up for what you think feels best. Fuck the book. The book will get you in the ballpark most often, then fine tuning based on what you want out of the bike. But it all comes down to how you feel on it.

yea going by one source is usually trash, but I kind of do the "online research" going through lot of forum posts magazines youtube videos even reddit etc to come up with a starting set of numbers which seemed close to my weight and style. Then just tweak a bit during rides and just set it later on. This strategy worked for last 2 out of three bikes with adjustable suspension. But this tracer it was waaaaay off. I am talking several clicks on preload and comp rebound etc, as if entirely different bike. then again there was not much data to go by for this bike since its still pretty new.

yes I saw the link on dave moss site for remote help, like 90 bucks something for 30 min consult. I wondered if I needed to be well prepared with all stands and measurement and may be even a helper before going that direction to make full use of the session. If that's the case I cant arrange that   

hoblick seems like a very viable option, but that guy so busy will be hard to get a time lined up.

I wish to just go back with a simple machine like vstrom with no adjustments and hence no headache, just learn to ride the bike as is    But noooo even in suspension world  the gold color always corrupts men.

1 hour ago, Tonik said:

I push a button on mine. It nails it every time.

Baller  

55 minutes ago, TimTheAzn said:

What do you need done?

Just setting stock suspension to my weight and style of riding. For tracer i followed manual/ forum/ magazine setting etc for my weight. This is because of difficulty setting sag alone, it can be done but it’s so much hassle and chance of error. And these time I thought it was good but the bike was unstable doesn’t hold a line etc, the difference was highlighted as soon as I switched ride with @Skinny guy After that I took hundreds of miles solo riding and kept tinkering with it and bike feels entirely new. So much easier to ride.  Just made we wonder how good it might be when a proper expert does it. 

Are there any suspension experts in neo area that can help set up suspension on a bike? Are there any folks who show up at track days who work on suspension settings like that dude Dave moss in all those west coast videos.