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16 minutes ago, koth442 said:

I am totally jealous McLovin. Northern CA riding is unparalleled. If you do come my way, go just a smidge further east into western North Carolina, like Asheville area. That is the tits. 

i second that.  bobbles...i'm over in NC now over by where he's talking about...in fact, koth and i got to ride together not that long ago out here... there's good stuff out this direction. and no...not the tail of the dragon. that's super overrated.

53 minutes ago, koth442 said:

Also SF a great place to get dead, too many driveways. MRR isn't exactly safe either, but at least it's 96.3% deserted. 

Don't be lil bbbeeeoooootch! Hehe. Yeah, I agree with salmon falls having too much traffic and driveways and such. Mrr is tits though! My favorite road in the entire country so far  

10 hours ago, Bobbles said:

Man that mush have been great! I'm just off salmon falls road now and it's just OK compared to MRR.

oh yeah...and on the other side of 50, scott rd is a good one if you like sending huge jumps.   

10 hours ago, Bobbles said:

Man that mush have been great! I'm just off salmon falls road now and it's just OK compared to MRR.

Marshall Rd is a good one by you. Rattlesnake Bar Rd is also excellent.

1 hour ago, Bobbles said:

You guys are killing me with all this talk of roads in my back yard! I'm in the Folsom area and I've ridden most of these roads many times. Hit me up if you want to ride or need some suggestions in the foothills. I like making google maps of my rides. Man I have next week off and you guys are making me want a big midweek ride!

I still need to sell my Tiger so I can get a Tracer/FJ, hopefully that'll happen soon.

I've lived all over the sacto area..including in auburn, foresthill, eg, natomas... I know EVERY SINGLE ROAD out that way. When I lived in foresthill, my address was mosquito ridge rd.

26 minutes ago, duckie said:

Tuesday I did  a 400 mile loop through the Sierras. Took 88 out of Jackson up to 89 down to 4 to Angels Camp. 9 hour ride.......little more than 4 hours total in time to just to get to and back where the good roads start.

Perfect day, not hot, not cold. Clean roads. Light traffic.

The elevation took some of the grunt away from the motor, but it still worked flawlessly.

It dawned on me that part of 4 is nothing more than a paved hiking trail when it goes from two lanes down to one......same with 108.

If ya know the top part of 4 where it is narrow and not divided, you know its tight, blind corners and such. I came around one corner, and coming up hill was a Semi tow truck, towing a semi cab. Wide and long. I wanted to turn around to follow him just to see how he went up, but time didn't allow for that.

88 was nice since its all two lane and well maintained. Lots of speed to be carried through some of the turns......

Week or so....going again, but leaving way earlier this time.

4 is my FAVORITE pass!  i've ridden it both directions about a trillion times. i love the single lane portion...that's my favorite part of 4!  at the top, by the lake, if you're headed east, you can catch WICKED air off the table top jump up there.

7 minutes ago, Jon B said:

All that damage was fm initial impact/slide, in one second, before bouncing and then rolling for what seemed like a very long time. It happened so fast... there is no making an 'effort' to lift face off ground. Most injuries related to the rolling and bouncing after impact/slide. 

 

i've had some big offs....  my fastest crash was around 122-123 miles per hour (highside)... i slid 140 feet before hitting the dirt (and i counted 3 sky/grounds) and eventually coming to a stop.  zero damage to my lid.

one crash i had, where i highsided at about 75-78 mph and was FULLY catapulted into the air (about 11-12 feet according to the rider i was passing when i did it), i did a front flip, ending up sliding on my butt, feet first, with my arms keeping me upright....until my bike speared me in the back (broke my back and ribs in the impact, plus the whiplash was pretty severe) smashing me, cartwheeling me, and then landing on top of me again while still sliding and staying on top of me until coming to a stop...  the only damage to my helmet was on the back, when i simply couldn't hold my head up any longer while sliding because my neck was so weak ...then i just gave up and layed my head back and let my helmet drag as i slid...  and even that damage looks like a nick in the paint compared to the face of your helmet...  

that's why i ask... and also because bilt isn't notorious for being of high quality....so i'm wondering if the thermoplastic/polycorbonate is the cultprit for such extensive damage...

i'm in no way attacking or minimizing anything you have to say....just searching for data.

21 hours ago, Jon B said:

I hit a deer on the FZ1 a few weeks ago. Cut the deer in two, and I hit ground pretty hard and slid and then rolled a good ways. Had gear on, except for Levis and Coretech lightweight gloves... hands are sore, broke a finger and a toe/foot, and bike is bring dinged up. Wish I'd worn the armored gloves that were in my tankbag. Now deciding on whether to fix that 2003 FZ1 (been a great bike for ten years) of replace with a DL1000 or FJ-09/Tracer. We'll see...

were you knocked unconcious at all?  that's a LONG looking face slide witout making any effort to lift your face off the ground.  

glad you're relatively alright!  also, i'm currently in NC as well. i'm surprised by how few deer there are out here. I saw 2 on a 450 mile ride yesterday....prior to that, in the 4k miles or so i've been riding out here in the BR mountains, i'd only seen ONE.

1 hour ago, koth442 said:

Oh shit yeah. The fun is endless, just depends how wild you want to get. You can connect WWS to Mosquito Ridge Road too. MRR comes out of Foresthill, and is a local hot spot. Very tight canyon road. WWS is so smooth and seemingly predictable it can lure you into going too fast. The corner at the end of the dam (heading east) is deceptively tight.

 

@com3, wasn't the picture of that due on the R1 that's 6 feet in the air taken somewhere between MRR & WWS? Not that betony wants to get that wild, but it's a really cool picture. 

Negative. That was off Drum Forbay near 80 headed up towards Alta

17 hours ago, Patch Kit said:

com3, did you ever figure this out? Mine has a similar issue, I believe, at 14k miles. About to check the plugs, sync TBs, check O2 sensor, and all lines.

negative.  after adjusting the APS manually, it seems to be much more intermittent now... the issue comes and goes as it pleases....i just ride around it. haha.

I have the stock 51L top case

I'm 6'3, 225 nekkid. My gf is 5'7, 130, nekkid...355...with full gear, puts us at about 400, I'd say. Plus top case with waters and tire plug kit, etc etc etc, I'd say my normal ride weight it's around 420-425lbs. I also have side cases...so for trips, sides cases go on...I'd say 450-460lbs in all. 

And I rip. Tight twisty roads, wheelies, jumps, offroad, I do it all. 2015 fj.

It sucked in the stock shock. Bottomed out ALL the time. Even smashed two oil pans had to get a skid plate to stop smashing oil pans.

Then I got a new penkse shock, sprung for 460# (and stiffer springs up front+revalve kit). Now the bike works like it's supposed to. 

The tracer has a longer swing arm, so I imagine it's probably sprung a little stiffer than the fj...when I rode it, it didn't feel as sloppy in the back. 

We were filming this video

1 hour ago, koth442 said:

@com3, which H2 did you ride? Was it the supercharged? 

The fast one. Haha. Yeah, it was supercharged. I think it was the 2017

1 hour ago, texscottyd said:

I hear you on that... I’ve typically run 1/4 turns on all my race bikes, and have logged literally 1,000s of race miles over 15 years of endurance and sprint racing.   I tried an 1/8th turn one time, on my built Hawk with FCR flat slides (from the bygone days of carburetors)... suffice it to say that was not a good combination.   

My semi-issue about this throttle tamer isn’t the ratio, but the way the ratio changes...  just felt really unnatural to me on my brief exposure.   

Fair enough!  My buddy's sv super bike build with flat slides, etc (85hp on the dyno!) with 1/8 turn was....fun. Haha.  I loved the hawk in track trim too. My buddy Bobby (rip) had one that he raced and would back it in to every corner. 

On 6/6/2020 at 2:55 PM, texscottyd said:

Just my opinion, but I’ve never been a fan of this idea.   Full disclosure:  My real world experience with this is limited to only about 50 miles on an FZ9, but here was my impression:  Yes, it does mute the initial throttle response, but it also gives a very unnatural feeing when the transition back to the standard throttle turn ratio occurs.  On several occasions I found this when leaned over mid-turn, and rolling the throttle back on to accelerate out...  exactly when you do want a linear and predictable throttle response.  Instead, it seemed to come on faster than I expected, since each incremental degree of throttle opening seemed to give proportionately more actual acceleration. 

It’s a conceptually clever band-aid, but a flash & APS adjustment is the right way to go. 

heh....you should try a quick turn throttle....like 1/4 turn or even 1/8th turn throttle.  i ride lots and lots of superbikes/race bikes.... 1/8th turn throttle is pretty gnarly. haha.

Glad you're on the mend! Sorry to lose you from the sport. 

I had a small deer jump on my lap once...it went for a brief ride with me until it fell off and scampered back into the woods. I nearly shat myself in the process. I had a flat rear tire and was loping along slowly trying to make the last few miles home when it happened. Haha.

Sadly, I did hit and kill a large coyote at the track...I was doing a 4th gear wheelie on the fz10 down the back straight at about 110-115mph when it came running out... I immediately set the front down and less than a second later I made contact with it on the front tire. Bit of a tank slapper, but I kept it upright. 

I was the only person on track at the time, so I made an immediate u-turn to go make sure it wasn't suffering. It wasn't. I borrowed a shovel and buried it in the field.

Sounds like the rear master cylinder valving might have gone sideways...

Most likely due to installation error (spacers on the wrong side, or maybe you didn't seat the sprocket carrier well enough) when you put it back together....and if the caliper was binding and you rode it anyways, it got real hot and boiled the fluid...thus damaging the piston seals as well. 

Extreme assessments indeed. 

12 minutes ago, rodb47 said:

You changed the TPS?

negative. i just adjusted the parameters slightly from whatever stock was--i think 17--to 16 on the diag thingos.

seems to be working so far!

well...since doing this, i haven't had any more surging so far... though, the throttle feels FAR more snatchy than it did before, particularly in 2nd gear. 

i also cleaned my gear position sensor...  i wonder if that made a difference with mapping, as it hasn't been working properly for at least the last 10k miles...

Perfect! Thanks guys!