Coming out of hibernation?

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So then, for those of us who put away our rides over Winter - who is ready to get them back out?

With this mild week, I am quite tempted to get the RS back onto the road - hopefully the temps will just rise now, and we can kiss goodbye to frost and ice of a morning!

 

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The roads are still salty around my neck of the woods, but are dry at least - sense is telling me to leave it a few more weeks; but I gotta scratch the itch and Ride 3 on the PS4 hasn't helped

 

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Couldn't resist. Got her prepped last night, with a torch in my mouth and rode in this morning.

The roads weren't great, but it felt good to blow the cobwebs out, last ride was when I fitted the end can in December; and that was just an hour or so.

 

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Took mine out on Saturday - rode like a nipple D) but when the road was pretty much empty, and within NSLs.

Took the Wife and the puppers to Weymouth on Sunday (by car ), and I was shocked with some of the riders we saw - one of the highlights, was on the new(ish) bypass into Weymouth; we had a white 848 Ducati flying towards us (in our lane!), just to get past the queues Of course I gave the guy room, but what a complete *****! Add to that, a bunch of really dodgy overtakes on corners, as riders played catch-up with their lead rider; rather than just wait and catch up safely.

 

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Been a few chilly rides in this week, made me wish I have the heated grips But lovely in the evening - about 15 degrees last night.

 

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Mines back under the covers for a bit - can't bare seeing her getting all salted up at the moment!

Last Friday was fun though - dropping off the Scrambler to the dealership, I completely missed a drain cover on a corner (in the pouring rain), and was treated to a decent slide of the front tyre! On the way back home, riding the RS, I managed to throttle up as the back wheel was going over a diesel spill - span up the wheel and had a right wiggle, before TC kicked in and settled it down.

I think it might be time to look for replacements for the Super Corsas - might go back to Michelin - Road 5s probably.

 

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I can vouch for road 5s I've had them on for about a year

I put Pilot Road 4s on my Hyperstrada, and was blown away with the wet weather grip - just braking alone, I was able to put near enough full dry road pressure on them, and cornering at speed felt great.

 

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Quite a few came out of hibernation round here at the weekend, unfortunately it was only so obvious because of the big increase in "biker down/dead" posts that appeared in the FB groups.

Yikes, that sounds pretty horrific.

Saw plenty of riders when I was out over the weekend, but thankfully, some of them were pretty good - though plenty didn't return nods