ok , TA , i'll check out the TP's next time i drag it out.
Directional instability….
- Thread starter KMD
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Nice new Continentals put on today and as the sun was shining it would’ve been rude not to. Night & day different. Smooth, stable, neutral, predictable, all the things you’d like in your bike’s handling. Held a nice line in bends and gave loads of feel even on very cold, wet/dry road surfaces. I think it will be coming to Austria with us in June. Thanks all for the advice.
update ,
leaking fork seals , so done those and the seized speedo drive .
refitting , i have taken out the little screw at the top of the fork ,
pull fork up to bottom of yoke , but to the side . so the hex bit is next to the yoke ...insert screw , pull fork down and insert into yoke . put it all back together and go for a ride . dropped the tp's to 31/36 lets see , still drops in a bit.
setting them at 36/36 .
DROPPING INTO CORNERS HAS GONE !
I'm still gonna sell it.
FWIW I’ve just swapped the tyres on my RS1250 from some cheapish Chinese tyres ( I know , I had to try them ) and put Conti motions on it ,and it’s totally transformed the bike . It now handles like a sports bike
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I really ‘get’ that. Quite a few years ago now I bought a 700 mile VFR800 based solely on the motorcycle media hype on them, hadn’t even ridden one before and wondered if I’d made a huge mistake. It was on a pair of Dunlop D204’s from the factory and it was awful, no stability at all. Then I read a Ride Report on a tyre test they’d done and one of the bikes they’d used was a VFR800. In the write up they gave top marks and best buy to the Bridgestone BT020, on the VFR. So I had some fitted and suddenly I could see why the VFR was so highly recommended. It was a chalk & cheese, night & day transformation. Similarly this 1150RT changed instantly once a set of new Continentals were fitted.
Ha ha
even with 36/42 my RT never dropped in...
Neutral with a capital N... Marked difference in steering on oilheads regarding gear and revs though...
. It rides like a dream.
after i did the fork seals , i kept doing little rides . forcing some air pressure into the forks transformed the handling to near to what i had hoped for.
last ride , coming off the roundabout , passing a van on the exit , i touched it down. it had become what i thought it should be.
just a shame the mirrors are in a shite place and the panniers are too small.
anyway it is gone, and the new owner is happy.
last ride , coming off the roundabout , passing a van on the exit , i touched it down. it had become what i thought it should be.
just a shame the mirrors are in a shite place and the panniers are too small.
anyway it is gone, and the new owner is happy.
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