Jeeeeezzzeee, didn't think I could do that
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Joined: Nov 2007
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From: Beautiful Downtown Burbank
Riders Edge and MSF arent the answers. They dont explain what Perch needs now.
Outside-Inside-Outside, Keep your head level to the ground (keep your horizon where its supposed too be, not skewed), and look as far around the curve as you can. It feels like you get pulled through the curve on a rail, not riding through it in panic.
Outside-Inside-Outside, Keep your head level to the ground (keep your horizon where its supposed too be, not skewed), and look as far around the curve as you can. It feels like you get pulled through the curve on a rail, not riding through it in panic.
Advanced
Joined: Dec 2008
Posts: 87
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From: Warrenton, VA
i scrape my TH everytime i take a sharp right turn. i can scrape my left peg when i really get into it as well. But im coming from a sport bike background. it took me a logn time to realize that my SB wasnt going to get any where near what i had been used to... scrape your elbow once or twice cuz you forget to tuck it in, takes 30 min for you heart to stop pounding the first time you do it.
Tourer
Joined: Oct 2007
Posts: 463
Likes: 2
From: Buffalo, NY
Riders Edge and MSF arent the answers. They dont explain what Perch needs now.
Outside-Inside-Outside, Keep your head level to the ground (keep your horizon where its supposed too be, not skewed), and look as far around the curve as you can. It feels like you get pulled through the curve on a rail, not riding through it in panic.
Outside-Inside-Outside, Keep your head level to the ground (keep your horizon where its supposed too be, not skewed), and look as far around the curve as you can. It feels like you get pulled through the curve on a rail, not riding through it in panic.
Road Warrior
Joined: Dec 2008
Posts: 1,297
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From: Oklahoma City, OK
Man, I scraped my black Big Radius over the weekend…..I wasn’t doing anything to brag about either…just a slow right turn and the pavement angled down just right to coax me into leaning over farther than normal I guess. Felt my pegs fold up and heard the lovely sound of my $800 pipes being scraped. Hopefully a little touchup will camouflage it.
Road Master
Joined: Oct 2008
Posts: 886
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Before I put the 21" on the front I was on the dragon and was scraping my pegs on a turn, but kept pushing thinking the peg will fold up before the rear tire lifts and then it would drop any more... I drifted across center line but no one was there... couldn't figure out what happened on that turn till I got home and saw the scrape on the pipes (same place). Now with the 21" front wheel that elbow is a bit higher and also now when I hear the pegs scrape I don't push it any further. Mine are chrome so a little harder to see the scrape
Road Captain
Joined: May 2009
Posts: 505
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It's the extreme tip of my Pro-pipe that touches down first but very rarely the footpeg will touch first - it seems to be a couple of turns where the camber is "against" the turn where that happens. Not entirely sure though. I don't want to scuff the pipe too much so I tend to just shift a little weight to the inside like a sport-bike rider just to keep the turn rate and speed up but without wrecking the pipe - I expect I look really silly to sport-bike riders.
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