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Re: Risers and more
Previously, you (Rich Weyand) wrote:
> The Gen-Mar risers do take a lot of weight off my hands, and
> I am much better able to have a light touch on the bars. This
> also makes right-hand numbness/wrist fatigue much easier to
> avoid. Before I was not able to keep the weight off my hands
> without feeling it in my back.
Like you I found the GenMar risers made a big difference to my comfort.
Maybe it was that I wasn't used to a sportier riding position (came from
a Nighthawk 450 -- very upright standard) or maybe my arms weren't long
enough or my upper body tall enough for the long reach. Either way, the
GenMars did the trick for me.
> After his appointment, we motored about for a while, taking
> the long way home. The usual idiots were out in force, so we
> took it easy and stayed with traffic. Yesterday here was one
> of those clear sky very windy days. Westbound 60 mph seemed
> more like 100, while eastbound it seemed more like 20. Curves
> changed the angle of the wind to the bike, and sometimes it
> would tend to want to stand the bike up, and others to further
> lean it over, as the angle changed around the corner. Add in
> a lot of gustiness and it was somewhat disconcerting, as it
> made the bike feel less predictable and less stable on line.
> Gustiness on the straights wasn't so bad, the bike keeps its
> heading and just leans a bit into the gust, but on the curves
> it felt like I was fighting it all the time.
Which screen do you have? I found the tall screen that I used over
winter to really catch the wind. Now that it is warm and I've moved
back to the stock screen, the bike just goes where I point it so long as
I hunker down and don't become a sail.
- --
Bill "Bench Dawg" Flowers
Clearwater FL
'00 Sapphire Blue ST "Jewel"
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