Riding Style?
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From: Hill Country, TX
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From: Enterprise, AL
Absolutely, this bulk smokeless I switched to a few months ago is the juiciest stuff I've ever had and can form a serious gob of nastiness. Seems to work best 40-60 mph range, interstate speeds are a little more difficult as it sometimes ends up on my shoulder.
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From: Maryland
Though he is right. . .hack up half a lung and lob it over your shoulder. . .people back off real quick. You can't help but snicker when you see the windshield wipers start running.
As to the original poster, I ride 40-ish miles daily and about half of that is on a highway with self-important morons on their cellphones weaving around. I hit 70 to 80 to stay away from them since they tend to like to try to play bumper cars with DC traffic. When I do find the country roads that don't have idiots all over the place, I generally level out to about 50, maybe 60 depending on conditions.
Will it ever change? Not until I move. There are too many idiots out here in the Mid-Atlantic area with a license and my legs are too twitchy and ready to kick in side panels out here. I've gone back to Indiana once since I had my bike and I rode completely different; much more laid back and less getting away from idiots on cell phones because there weren't too many idiots on cell phones.
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From: Frozelandia, Minnysota
In my youth every bike I had that would do over a hundred (most), did, a lot. The first bike I had that I never took all the way to the top was a Suzuki 850 shaft drive; that thing was still pulling hard past 100. Slowed down to see how fast this semi was cruising in Nevada once, was right at 100; didn't know they could go that fast. Driver had a big grin when he looked at me next to him. Put a lot of miles on in the Southwest at triple digits - even a no shoulder 2 lane that's flat, straight, and nothing but desert for miles around gets boring at 70-80. But the Sporty has never seen 100, and I'm not sure it would even go that fast; a stock 883 is kind of pokey for it's size. Now I just enjoy the ride, speed isn't that important anymore. Maybe Minnesota roads just don't encourage it like the Southwest did a few decades ago.
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From: Badlands of ND
Glad to know I'm not the only one that does this. I was beginning to think it was just a redneck thing.
Though he is right. . .hack up half a lung and lob it over your shoulder. . .people back off real quick. You can't help but snicker when you see the windshield wipers start running.
As to the original poster, I ride 40-ish miles daily and about half of that is on a highway with self-important morons on their cellphones weaving around. I hit 70 to 80 to stay away from them since they tend to like to try to play bumper cars with DC traffic. When I do find the country roads that don't have idiots all over the place, I generally level out to about 50, maybe 60 depending on conditions.
Will it ever change? Not until I move. There are too many idiots out here in the Mid-Atlantic area with a license and my legs are too twitchy and ready to kick in side panels out here. I've gone back to Indiana once since I had my bike and I rode completely different; much more laid back and less getting away from idiots on cell phones because there weren't too many idiots on cell phones.
Though he is right. . .hack up half a lung and lob it over your shoulder. . .people back off real quick. You can't help but snicker when you see the windshield wipers start running.
As to the original poster, I ride 40-ish miles daily and about half of that is on a highway with self-important morons on their cellphones weaving around. I hit 70 to 80 to stay away from them since they tend to like to try to play bumper cars with DC traffic. When I do find the country roads that don't have idiots all over the place, I generally level out to about 50, maybe 60 depending on conditions.
Will it ever change? Not until I move. There are too many idiots out here in the Mid-Atlantic area with a license and my legs are too twitchy and ready to kick in side panels out here. I've gone back to Indiana once since I had my bike and I rode completely different; much more laid back and less getting away from idiots on cell phones because there weren't too many idiots on cell phones.
It's not only cell phones. Last year I got rear-ended on my Goldwing, sitting at a stoplight, by a lady in her 70's. I shut off the bike, walked over to the driver's door and said, "What the hell are you doing? Are you talking on your cell phone or something?" Looking down to her lap...
She was balancing her CHECKBOOK!!!!
No damage done. Luckily the front bumper of her minivan matched perfectly w/my trailer hitch.
Yeah, I like riding in Indiana too!!
Riding style: let's just say it's a little different w/the wife on the back!!! <wink>
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