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manyrevs
Probably the last word on this thread (from me anyway),,
The bike is now performing and handling like I always thought it should. I adjusted the front and rear suspension a few times over the past 2 months and got it spot on to my liking - I just didn't realize how much softening up it needed to get it there,, almost maxxed out on the soft side of things in both springs and damping, front and rear,, but now it's more or less perfect for me and seems to handle all situations out there, with ease. The low speed turning in issues I 'had' back when I first rode the bike, have all gone with these settings, which is great. Turning slow speed is no issue at all now. I finally changed engine mode to 'A' and the low end torque that I somehow thought I was missing out on in mode 'B', suddenly appeared and almost blew me away. It's still a bit soft below 3800 - 4000 rpm in top gear, but at 4000 or anything above it, just hang on as you twist that throttle open, as a matter of fact, I loved the top gear motorway riding between 100 - 120 kph so much that I decided to see what this baby was capable of in fuel mileage. How much can I get out of her? Lets put it this way. I know from experience that I can get at least 260 km per tank (that was over the Kopu/Hikuai's) and there is still a bit of gas left in the tank. Trip meter says I can still get another 50 km on what's left, and that astounds me because that trip meter always seems to underestimate. Fuel usage on the dash was saying I was averaging 20.5 km/l.. BUT (and there's always a BUT) this was quite a speed legal trip, specially to see what distance a tank of gas would take me, so it was a little boring, just a bit now you hear...!!! I might have to take her out for a little blast soon, just to get the blood flowing again. The radiator got a bit of a blasting with tiny stones from the 7 or 8 patches of road works that were there, so a radiator guard is soon going on - should have fitted one the day I actually bought it (the guard I mean). A few bees and horse flies got a serious headache too, man they can make a mess of a radiator, can't they..?? Talk about bees, the Bridgestone RS10 tyres seem to be the bees knees - I really like them, although I might replace then with the S22's once they get to that point...
Well, there's not a whole lot more I can say about this bike. It seems to amaze me in almost every way possible. Soon I will replace the stock muffler (which looks like a giant plastic milk bottle), probably with a Yoshi R11-sq, then from there I'll just ride it when I like while we still have good weather. May as well get as much distance as I can for the $1200 insurance fee I had to shell out...
Thanks for sharing the thread... Big Smiles all round...!!!
ManyRevs
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