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Dadhawk · 08-13-2020, 03:49 PM

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Originally Posted by 86MLR

I'm at the stage in my life that I've beaten on my body for so long I cannot ride a sports bike for longer than 1/2 hour.

I've never been able to ride one for more than 15 minutes and I've rode off and on my whole life, riding bikes before cars. Maybe it's my height (I'm 5'7" on a good day) or wide shoulders and short arms but it has zero appeal to me.

Give me a standard or touring bike any day thanks. Closest i had was my Honda 919 (second or third post in thread) and even with that I had to have the handlebars adjusted back and up.

bcj · 08-13-2020, 03:55 PM

I did get riser grips for the K12.
About 5 inches back and 2 inches higher than the stock position.

NoHaveMSG · 08-13-2020, 04:58 PM

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Originally Posted by bcj

I did get riser grips for the K12.
About 5 inches back and 2 inches higher than the stock position.

I just did risers on my buddy's Ducati, it's a whole new bike for him. I told him from the get go it needed it, took him about a year to try it.

humfrz · 08-13-2020, 09:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Dadhawk

Give me a standard or touring bike any day thanks. Closest i had was my Honda 919 (second or third post in thread) and even with that I had to have the handlebars adjusted back and up.

Yep, I got the picture - ol Dadhawk, back in the day -

solidsnake11 · 08-13-2020, 10:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Dadhawk

I've never been able to ride one for more than 15 minutes and I've rode off and on my whole life, riding bikes before cars. Maybe it's my height (I'm 5'7" on a good day) or wide shoulders and short arms but it has zero appeal to me.

Give me a standard or touring bike any day thanks. Closest i had was my Honda 919 (second or third post in thread) and even with that I had to have the handlebars adjusted back and up.

My friends hayabusa is great, very comfortable to ride.

My last bike was a 06 GSXR 1000 turbo but it split in half when a truck pulled out on me.

86MLR · 08-14-2020, 01:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Dadhawk

Maybe it's my height (I'm 5'7" on a good day) or wide shoulders and short arms but it has zero appeal to me.

I'm 5'6", with a powerlifting background.

As I am unable to buy anything that fits off the rack I'm currently waiting on my new Ricondi leather jacket to be custom made, CE armour at the elbows, shoulders and back, and because of the Zombie apocalypse it is a 8-12 week turn around.

humfrz · 08-14-2020, 01:44 AM

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Originally Posted by 86MLR

I'm 5'6", with a powerlifting background.

As I am unable to buy anything that fits off the rack I'm currently waiting on my new Ricondi leather jacket to be custom made, CE armour at the elbows, shoulders and back, and because of the Zombie apocalypse it is a 8-12 week turn around.

Oh, OK ...... I got the picture -

86MLR · 08-14-2020, 02:27 AM

LOL, yeah, but that gorilla is way better looking though.

NoHaveMSG · 08-17-2020, 01:46 PM

Gee-zus. Did anyone else see the crash at the the Austrian MotoGP race this weekend?

Guru Woodman · 08-17-2020, 03:40 PM

Brought her home last week.

86MLR · 08-17-2020, 08:05 PM

Covid shopping

p1l0t · 08-18-2020, 01:12 PM

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Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG

Gee-zus. Did anyone else see the crash at the the Austrian MotoGP race this weekend?

Note to self: Don't touch other motorcycles at very high rate of speed.

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Dadhawk · 08-18-2020, 01:53 PM

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Originally Posted by p1l0t

Note to self: Don't touch other motorcycles at very high rate of speed.

Or anything else much bigger than a grain of sand.

I wish they had shown a little more on the second rider that hit the downed bike. How did he fair?

NoHaveMSG · 08-18-2020, 01:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Dadhawk

Or anything else much bigger than a grain of sand.

I wish they had shown a little more on the second rider that hit the downed bike. How did he fair?

They were both okay, just a bit rattled. Rossi could have been killed if that bike would have hit him. I wonder how fast it was going when it crossed in front of him.

Correction, Zarco broke a bone in his wrist.

08-14-2020, 02:27 AM	#274
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Guru Woodman Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2015 Drives: 2015 BRZ Sport Tech CWP Location: Ontario Canada Posts: 515 Thanks: 265 Thanked 636 Times in 269 Posts Mentioned: 3 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	Brought her home last week. __________________

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