Polishing another turd

[MikeP]

No, it's not going to be an 'off-roader',

Why am I still not convinced? Oh yes, this;

You know me well enough to know that if I see a track or a challenge, I'm quite likely to throw myself down it....and probably, the bike with it

I've long been in awe of your determination to take your GS into every stream and river within a fifty mile radius of wherever it happens to be (I still don't understand the urge though) and I have yet to be convinced that you'll not do the same with a K100g/S (small 'g' is appropriate I think ).

 

[Steptoe]

Why am I still not convinced? Oh yes, this;

I've long been in awe of your determination to take your GS into every stream and river within a fifty mile radius of wherever it happens to be (I still don't understand the urge though) and I have yet to be convinced that you'll not do the same with a K100g/S (small 'g' is appropriate I think ).

Bill collected the K this afternoon. And promptly dropped it within 10 seconds/30 feet.

 

[Fanum]

Bill collected the K this afternoon. And promptly dropped it within 10 seconds/30 feet.

I was bonding with it

It's a very VERY different bike to ride isn't it

I must have tried to change up to 6th a dozen times....sitting at 100 filtering on the M25 and all the way up the A12, it just NEEDED another gear....


OK, no, it didn't, but I'm not used to a bike that revs that high (and I know it's not high in comparison with many bikes)

I like the smooth power, very linear, but for squirty filtering/flip flapping left and right inbetween cars and trucks, it wasn't as fun as the grunty GSA, which you can pull upright with a squirt...The K doesn't respond to that as well.

There's a long sweeping dual carriageway corner on the A12 where you pull off onto the A120...on the GS on knobblies I can't take that flat out, but the K felt a lot nicer on that corner

My neck was aching when I got back in, and my wrists suffered a bit when I was below 80, but there is a sweet spot that suddenly, it all makes total sense in

I'm going to have to take the gas axe to that sidestand though...I just don't trust it

Cheers Neil, and FFS before you buy ANYTHING more for your poshwagon, give us a call

( I can't wait to hear Gert answer the phone and for you to say..."Ello, Technical? " )

 

[MikeP]

Bill collected the K this afternoon. And promptly dropped it within 10 seconds/30 feet.

Privately I thought within the first day but that soon. Really?


Good one Bill.

BTW, what's wrong with the side stand?

 

[Fanum]

Privately I thought within the first day but that soon. Really?


Good one Bill.

BTW, what's wrong with the side stand?

Nothing apparently.

I just didn't know that it sprang back when you use the clutch lever

When I dismount from the GSA, I have got into the habit of using hand brake and clutch levers (it's a long story, but it was triggered by accidentally knocking the bike into gear when dismounting it)

So that's what I did ......and as i got off, the side stand just vanished

Ah well.......it gave everyone a good giggle

 

[MikeP]

Just disconnect it if it's going to be a problem. It's only a bar with what looks a bit like a woodruff key threaded onto the end (it's that rod to the right of the stand in this photo).

If the end is seized, just cut the rod and pull the two bits out at each end (that's what many owners do).

Usually the biggest problem is that people not used to it, try pulling the clutch lever in when the weight is still on the side-stand resulting clutch cables getting stretched.