Modern Motorcycles... and Technology

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My first motorcycle was something like this. It was a Suzuki 90cc two-stroke. I don't look back fondly wishing I had one like it.

The brakes were so bad, you were better off to drag your feet like Fred Flintstone to stop. The headlight was so poor, you'd be better off holding a flashlight in your teeth. And the horn??? What a joke. If you wanted to use it, you needed to make sure your rpms were up or nothing happened.

I don't know why Suzuki quit making this bike. ;)

Chris
 
Andrew Shadow said:
A technology question for the BMW GS crowd.
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Mine is an '08 and maybe doesn't apply, but I sometimes reset the wrong trip. The bike sometimes changes from my trip 1 preferred view right after starting it, and if I am trying to reset #1 too quickly, I sometimes reset #2. It's either that or somehow instead of a long single push to reset, there's an interruption in the long push so the display changes to #2 and then does the reset. I'm not sure which it is. Maybe both can happen, but on my Thanksgiving trip I was more careful and didn't screw it up.

So it was happening to me, too, and I don't think I'm stupid. A little slow maybe, but not stupid.
 
Uncle Phil said:
Yeah - Hindsight is always 20/20 .... :biggrin:
The 'standard' Tridents are no so much - I saw a 'fully' restored one for about $7,000.
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I sold mine to my family doctor for $700 so I could buy fuel oil to keep my new family warm one winter lol.
 
Why anyone would have an HSA on an auto is beyond me. Auto tranny is holding the bike as it is. And even if it rolls a bit backwards, just hold a demn brake. It won't stall nor roll back when start pulling up.
 
Daboo said:
When I went to sell my 2011 Honda NT700V, I was amazed. I only had 30,000 miles on a "sport-touring" motorcycle. One guy in California was interested in it...but only if it had less than 5000 miles on it. And otherwise, there wasn't much interest. Why is 30,000 miles high mileage? What part of the word "touring" do people not understand. I wasn't selling a garage queen, but a bike meant for traveling long miles in comfort.

Motorcycles aren't ready for the scrap yard at 5000 miles. Some like the ST1300, the FJR and the Kawasaki C14 have engines larger than some of the cars I've owned. We don't come close to wearing them out, even at 200,000 miles. It's only the rest of the bike that we need concern ourselves with.

I fully expect my BMW F900XR to be my last bike. If it is anything like the F800GT was, it'll run and run and run. The only reason I'd trade it in would be if I got brainwashed by the Marketing folks that I "needed" more. "More" is oftenimes less.

Chris
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I kind of figure that with "older" bikes meaning ones that are really old are for nostalgia, I look back at the rides I envied when they were new. Like the Triumphs, BSAs, Nortons as well as the Benellis, etc. etc. Wasn't that Triumph Trident simply beautiful. The BSA 650s always drew me in. Which when I have ridden later spur memories of swing arm twisting, forks twisting and frame twist as well as the tires being what they were then, god those solid pegs were interesting. Old has a different meaning for those days.
If old means anything with a 20 as the first numbers for the year, old holds different meaning for me, I have a whole bunch of memories that involve from cornering at speeds that use the whole tire. It separates my thoughts of what I think of as old. If the chicken stripes are now gone from the picture "old" doesn't mean slower anymore, so getting back on an "old bike" is like putting on a pair of broken in gloves that fit just right.
The only times the electronics interfere for me tell me I was ranging into conditions that are a bit to much for my abilities, which I have been beyond before and will probably go again. The rest of the time they are just along for the ride. Until !!!!!!
 
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