Saturday November 29th

[PirateRiderBen]

Logged some more miles yesterday with the tiger and dad on his vstrom, joined by Brian from VFRD and his 6th gen. Pretty solid, but chilly ride. Left Gate around 11:30 I led us through some backroads to lake lure that Bob showed us last month. I tried to work on my body position. Focusing more effort on upper body lean and less on throwing a knee out. Let's be honest, I'm not gonna get a knee down on that tall as heck bike. Haha. I worked on "kissing the mirrors. Getting my upper body relaxed and moving makes the bike a lot more responsive. The death grip and stiff upper body made the bike harder to manage. I think it's also easier to manage a turn you came into to hot as well. Dad killed his battery with the Heated grips but I got it bump started at halfway hardware and we rolled on. Brian about dumped it in buffalo shoals road when he found some piles of loose sand gravel in a tight right. And I got cruising along and then found myself upon a tight right in thermal city road and came real close to launching the bike into someone's front yard, thank the lord for ABS. All in all a solid 170 miles. Lunch at Duncan's BBQ in chimney rock is always a plus too!

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[Bob]

Nice photo of phallus rock, lol.

Yep, keeping your grip loose and elbows flexed and kissing the mirrors--thats about 90% of it on a bike like the Tiger. And pretty much most all the bikes we ride. Makes a huge difference in control and confidence. But its also easy to forget to do it, and I have to keep reminding myself of that, or I'll degenerate into a primordial Harley slouch.

[LeeDavis]

Given the temps that sounds like a pretty good ride. I'm a dedicated upper body leaner in curves and it makes a big difference. I've stuck my knee out a few times but feel silly doing it with an FJR.

[Brick]

Glad you had a great safe ride! What year is your buddies VFR? Strange paint job??

[PirateRiderBen]

He got backed into by a rollback tow truck. Those are ebay replacement plastics. I think he didn't feel the need to put oem fairings on a bike with 70k+ miles.


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[PirateRiderBen]

It's an 06 I believe.


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[Brick]

Ok

[PirateRiderBen]

Might not be pretty but he will leave me in the dust.


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[beachy]

might have passed you coming into lake lure when we were leaving 4 fjrs about 2 or 3pm started cold but got nice we did a sprint up and down 80 which to our surprise was in nice shape.

[PirateRiderBen]

Yeah that was us! Thanks for the heads up on the cop sitting up the road.


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