Everything 2018 FatBoy thread
Tourer
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From: Pennsylvania
145# with gear... i bet mine would be quite a bit slower sporting 310# without gear.
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I regularly weigh in at 126lbs.
Heaviest I've ever weighed in my entire life was 136lbs.
After I get my breast augmentation that should weigh me down a bit more right?
I do wonder how much weight of the rider plays into acceleration.
My bike probably weighed in at 675lbs for that run since It was at half tank.
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So 2000 mile update on these tires.
The front looks great, and doesn't look worn at all, but the rear is starting to show signs that I'm tearing on it. The tread is starting to round off on the leading edge.
Probably comes from all the hard acceleration. The rest of the tire I'm not sure if its wearing yet, but I'm not seeing any flat spots or anything. But that's probably because of all the winding road riding I'm doing lately.
I also got a video today of riding through my favorite twisty road. I'm really trying to learn to ride this bike hard and fast through curves until I can't get it to corner any faster.
I don't think I'm anywhere near that limit yet but maybe you can tell me.
I'm looking at some suspension stuff for the front end, right now, and see how much better I can get of a ride I can get out of this bike.
I'm having a lot of fun with it.
The front looks great, and doesn't look worn at all, but the rear is starting to show signs that I'm tearing on it. The tread is starting to round off on the leading edge.
Probably comes from all the hard acceleration. The rest of the tire I'm not sure if its wearing yet, but I'm not seeing any flat spots or anything. But that's probably because of all the winding road riding I'm doing lately.
I also got a video today of riding through my favorite twisty road. I'm really trying to learn to ride this bike hard and fast through curves until I can't get it to corner any faster.
I don't think I'm anywhere near that limit yet but maybe you can tell me.
I'm looking at some suspension stuff for the front end, right now, and see how much better I can get of a ride I can get out of this bike.
I'm having a lot of fun with it.
Last edited by FranBunnyFFXII; May 31, 2022 at 05:36 PM.
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So 2000 mile update on these tires.
The front looks great, and doesn't look worn at all, but the rear is starting to show signs that I'm tearing on it. The tread is starting to round off on the leading edge.
Probably comes from all the hard acceleration. The rest of the tire I'm not sure if its wearing yet, but I'm not seeing any flat spots or anything. But that's probably because of all the winding road riding I'm doing lately.
I also got a video today of riding through my favorite twisty road. I'm really trying to learn to ride this bike hard and fast through curves until I can't get it to corner any faster.
I don't think I'm anywhere near that limit yet but maybe you can tell me.
I'm looking at some suspension stuff for the front end, right now, and see how much better I can get of a ride I can get out of this bike.
I'm having a lot of fun with it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61rT3lpBiOo
The front looks great, and doesn't look worn at all, but the rear is starting to show signs that I'm tearing on it. The tread is starting to round off on the leading edge.
Probably comes from all the hard acceleration. The rest of the tire I'm not sure if its wearing yet, but I'm not seeing any flat spots or anything. But that's probably because of all the winding road riding I'm doing lately.
I also got a video today of riding through my favorite twisty road. I'm really trying to learn to ride this bike hard and fast through curves until I can't get it to corner any faster.
I don't think I'm anywhere near that limit yet but maybe you can tell me.
I'm looking at some suspension stuff for the front end, right now, and see how much better I can get of a ride I can get out of this bike.
I'm having a lot of fun with it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61rT3lpBiOo
Just watched your video. And noticed that you don't counter steer. The new Fatboy loves to be muscled into those curves. I couldn't see doing it faster without counter steering. Watch the those high speed racers, everyone uses counter steering to take those curves and twists at high speeds.
Glenn
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Just watched your video. And noticed that you don't counter steer. The new Fatboy loves to be muscled into those curves. I couldn't see doing it faster without counter steering. Watch the those high speed racers, everyone uses counter steering to take those curves and twists at high speeds.
Glenn
Glenn
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Just watched your video. And noticed that you don't counter steer. The new Fatboy loves to be muscled into those curves. I couldn't see doing it faster without counter steering. Watch the those high speed racers, everyone uses counter steering to take those curves and twists at high speeds.
Glenn
Glenn
What you're seeing is that I'm setting up my body first, then counter-steering as I lean in. I'm not sitting upright, I'm leaning over the tank into the inside of the turn.
Body, Head, Bike.
That's why you're seeing this huge swings in the position of the bike on screen. It's going from all the way left to right and back, That's because my head is going to the inside of the turn over the tank. Pulling my inside foot to the rear of the floorboard, and looking far into the corner.
As I'm cornering into the turn, I'm pulling back on the outside grip, like a hook, until I got the line I'm comfortable with taking.
I'm also trailbraking through out this a lot.
MotoGP riders setup their body before the turn. I'm doing the same. I bought the YamahaChampU riding school course, just applying what I've been learning.
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Just watched it again. Every curve it looks like you're turning the bars into the curve. Maybe it's my phone.
The Fatboy definitely likes to be muscled. If I let someone test ride mine, I always tell them that.
The Fatboy definitely likes to be muscled. If I let someone test ride mine, I always tell them that.
Last edited by Glenn Gorman; May 31, 2022 at 06:26 PM.
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The head of a bike always eventually falls into the radius once it's been leaned over. It's how motorcycles turn.
I'm not turning the bars into the turn at all, as the bike get's leaned over, the steering head falls into the stable radius of which the bike will make the turn.
I'm turning the bike over so quickly in so many turns, and leaning far enough off the tank that it looks almost as if I'm turning the bars into that direction. Especially with the FOV of the camera
I have no problems or need to muscle the bike around. With the way I'm leaning over tank to the inside, and then leaning into the inside floorboard(ChampSchool call this directing the bike with the Axis of the Gyro)
The bike responds to body position input well and a little bit of counter-steering and the bike leans right over, and if I want to sharpen the turn, since I got short lady arms, I pull back on the outside handlebar and it leans over even more.
As you can hear I'm consistently scraping those floorboards no problem.
Here check this video I made a few years ago, it has an Fat Boy and you can see the dynamics happen here too:
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[QUOTE=HarleyDEU;20621709]No Sir, stock headlight.
