Biker's Cafe Chatroom

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I'm not a massive fan of bike nights and things like that to be honest, if I'm out I'd rather be riding than looking at bikes I'll never own haha
 
I can because it's about 40 minutes from my work in Warrington and can have a good blast.

Get a bacon and egg on toast with a coffee for tea, have a look at the bikes for 15 - 20 minutes then shoot off home

Around 90 mile trip and fuel light always comes on from a full tank. Oooppsss..
 
JunglistE said:
Oh it was only 3 of us and we all had comparable bikes. My R6, one CBR600RR and a CBR600F. Was damn good fun but at the same time group rides make you ride a bit silly. we said we'd ride carefully on the way back and before you know it we were passing each other doing 100+ on certain roads.

irresponsible, yes. But you can't put a price on the grin I had that day

Luckily my friend who used to ride (well, 4 years on a 125) is currently going through his third CBT and is actually going to get his full license soon and I know he will be up for rides. Just need to talk him out of that ER6N
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tom_e, Just saw it says the S version... that sucks. :/
 
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Kreeeee said:
That all depends on the gearing. On the Aprilias for example they are geared for ~165mph at the red line in top gear.
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The Gen2 Tuono is geared for 160+mph in top, which is ridiculous on a naked bike! Hence why -1 and +2 front and back is a popular mod. That's still good for 140mph...

I generally ride on my own, very rarely do group rides - definitely not against the idea though, I'd love to have a regular couple pf mates to ride with, group rides with strangers can be tricky as people ride differently.

Just remembered an overtake of 2 cars I did yesterday: came up behind them, saw a bit of a gap - thought 'that might be a bit tight...' but decided to go for it, I was back on my side of the road a good 5-10 seconds before the oncoming cars had closed the gap :D:p

I think I need to re-adjust my perception of a safe overtaking gap with this Tuono :D
 
Time to adjust Paul that's all.

Don't do that when going from the tuono to the cb400 :p

How are you getting on with the bike, love it?

Any niggles with the bike you don't like?
 
Ben-Irvine93 said:
Time to adjust Paul that's all.

Don't do that when going from the tuono to the cb400 :p

How are you getting on with the bike, love it?

Any niggles with the bike you don't like?
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Well I did around 160 miles yesterday, all good! Neutral can be little tricky to find, and the suspension was set a bit hard for me, could feel every dimple on the road and big bumps jolted me out the seat - I've gone back to standard settings so will work from there, just need to set the preloaded up front and rear.

I'm gonna be doing a lot of miles on French motorways so the gearing might need a fettle, 80mph indicated (77 actual) is 5100 rpm, but then it's much nicer at slow speed on this gearing. I might stick on a 40 rear supersprox to be in the middle, stock is 16/40, it's on 15/42 at the moment.
 
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TallPaul_S said:
Well I did around 160 miles yesterday, all good! Neutral can be little tricky to find, and the suspension was set a bit hard for me, could feel every dimple on the road and big bumps jolted me out the seat - I've gone back to standard settings so will work from there, just need to set the preloaded up front and rear.

I'm gonna be doing a lot of miles on French motorways so the gearing might need a fettle, 80mph indicated (77 actual) is 5100 rpm, but then it's much nicer at slow speed on this gearing. I might stick on a 40 rear supersprox to be in the middle, stock is 16/40, it's on 15/42 at the moment.
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I think the Ohlins suspension is a bit stiff at the best of times, they do seem to work better the faster you go though lol. Sub 40mph my bike is very uncomfortable.

Regarding gearing 15 / 42 seems to be the sweet spot for me, I used one of those gearing calculators and 1 - 5 sees about 7mph per gear difference but in 6th it was about 20mph but that doesn't really bother me too much.

Chris
 
Chris said:
I think the Ohlins suspension is a bit stiff at the best of times, they do seem to work better the faster you go though lol. Sub 40mph my bike is very uncomfortable.

Regarding gearing 15 / 42 seems to be the sweet spot for me, I used one of those gearing calculators and 1 - 5 sees about 7mph per gear difference but in 6th it was about 20mph but that doesn't really bother me too much.

Chris
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Yeah tbh it's perfect through villages etc doing 20-30mph, bimbling along at 2000 rpm, and I think on the original gearing there's an issue with 6th gear being too long for 70mph, 4200 according to gearingcommander.com

I'll keep it as it is for now, I can always just sit at 70mph instead of 80mph on the motorways :D - probably use a lot less fuel that way too!
 
TallPaul_S said:
Yeah tbh it's perfect through villages etc doing 20-30mph, bimbling along at 2000 rpm, and I think on the original gearing there's an issue with 6th gear being too long for 70mph, 4200 according to gearingcommander.com

I'll keep it as it is for now, I can always just sit at 70mph instead of 80mph on the motorways :D - probably use a lot less fuel that way too!
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I'm lucky to get a 100 miles before the light comes on, I might be able to stretch that to 110 if I'm gentle lol

Chris
 
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