Posted on 02/14/2017 4:07:41 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
Whoops! Did you ever drop her from the bike? Before I married my wife, she rode on my motorcycle as a passenger. One day I went off road on a mountain, went up over a ridge and hit a rut in the path. The motorcycle stopped cold at the rut, I slammed into the steering bar, but she kept going over my body and tumbled down a hillside. She had mild scratches and bruises, but was pissed. Yelled at me to take her home, and never rode on my motorcycle again - ever. We've been married almost 50 years, and she's still pissed about that motorcycle ride.
Blue screen of death is a bit too literal in this case.
as I age (am 66), I need this more and more for ME. Especially on high places, like a bar stool
If the bike is moving, no way should you need assistance.
I ride bicycle rollers, just get the wheels spinning, and keep cranking!
A small belt from the rear, spins the front.
A quick demonstration:
https://youtu.be/k8DzHlnS8KI
Ya know I started riding motorcycles as a 2nd grader on a rupp...then to a QA 50/Sl 70/ 75cc yamaha enduro/RM 125/Elsinore 250 then a suzi 750 4 stroke...anyone who cant balance a bike should never set his A__ on one...Heck I never even owned a car with cruise control let alone a set of front forks that detach from the steering column and a god forsken computerized gizmo takes over...I am not allowed to say what I think of this foolish waste of money from Honda...seems to me some of that Fukashima radiation has set into the engineers at Honda development headquarters...this is insane. Either be able to touch with both feet at the same time or get a trike and hit every pothole...man this is supid.
I understand they de-link them now at low speed just for this reason.
I had a similar path, starting a bit later with a Wizzer.
7th grade an Indian 80, that only ran on one cylinder!
I currently have a nice airhead BMW, but I put about 10x the miles on a bicycle each year.
Honda thinks there may be a market for very fast Segway, and they would like to sell a few of them.
I had a brother that could do anything on a unicycle!
Even ride it down stairs!
He could not ride a motorcycle around the block, without ‘something’ happening!
Instead of falling at low speed, now they might fall at a quicker pace?
Same problem, solved it by just taking my girlfriend and left the wife home.
Training wheels does not a motorcycle make. If you can’t handle low speeds on a bike; powered or not - WALK!
You have to love the gyroscopic effect.
I understand counter steering, but I kind of think the leaning causes/helps the counter steering because I do not consciously do it. I do know that her leaning wrong does make the corner harder to take.
What model? I’m a Beemer nut (R100S & R1100RT) and don’t recall them doing that. Moto Guzzi has on several.
“...seems to me some of that Fukashima radiation has set into the engineers ato Honda....”
It seems the radiation cloud has drifted over Germany. BMW is fooling around with something similar. I’ve ridden Beemers for decades because of the elegantly simple and logical engineering. My old R100 is easier to work on than my garden tractor and has reached 158K miles with almost no unscheduled maintenance. They have been getting way too gizmo happy lately.
2003 1150RT
It’s the work of the devil!
I was told the the act of riding a bicycle is the constant act of almost falling over and correcting.
Didn’t know that. I was just studying the brakes the other night (putting stainless braided lines on). My manual covers both of our bikes and I missed that somehow.
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