Dipped a toe off road yesterday evening

[ButtonMoon]

DO try some TKC80's.....they are not hardcore tyres, but they are bloody brilliant and there aren't many people who can outride the limits of the tyre on them


I'm using TKC's at the moment, the are great, got just over 3k on them and the back looks like it will do another 2k. They will do 115mph without being too much trouble at all, above that it's not a nice ride, not unsafe just uncomfortable.

 

[ButtonMoon]

my TCK's at 3K miles

Still plenty life there!

 

[ButtonMoon]

my TCK's at 3K miles

Still plenty life there!

I mean TKC's. wot a nob ! sorry

 

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Fair play Blue, that's not EXTREME off road by a way, but I'd certainly call it off-road, and more than enough to scare many off

Thanks Fanum.

To be honest it was sheer bloody mindedness that got me to the top rather than any degree of skill, that and the fact that I liked the idea of turning round and going back down much less than the thought of trying to continue up. At one point I ended up travelling about 10-20ft at a time to enable me to pick a line get to a point then re-asses.

I'm going to go back and have another go, that time the bike was running quite off and I was having to dial in more throttle than was sensible resulting in the bike bouncing and wandering more than I was capable of controlling.

Just need to make another tweek to the TPS, the low rpm drive is much better now than it was so should be able to do it at a slightly slower pace. Also bought I small compressor so I can let the tyres down and then pump them up again.

 

[Fanum]

Thanks Fanum.



I'm going to go back and have another go, that time the bike was running quite off and I was having to dial in more throttle than was sensible resulting in the bike bouncing and wandering more than I was capable of controlling.

That is actually probably exactly the way to ride that sort of surface.......you HAVE to commit to it , slacken your grip on the bars and let it kick away....trust the bike to find its way forwards and if you can spare a tiny section of your brain processing to monitor what you're doing when you ride like that, you'll find that you're steering naturally by weighting the pegs, and hardly at all through positive input through the bars.


You need to get to Morocco.....hundreds and hundreds of miles of that sort of terrain, it's hard work but it's ferkking brilliant

 

[Possu]

I know of a pair of 1150GS wheels with discs, ABS rings and part worn TKC's going cheap if you're interested. Keep the TKC's on the spare wheels, 10 minutes to swap them and saves changing tyres all the time.

PM me if interested, I can ship from Oxford quite cheap with TNT through work.