Who rides motorcycles?

[scootr]

Well I've already found what everybody says. If you ride it hard or fast the suspension is too soft and gets to bouncing. It is a good motorcycle but there sure are a lot of people upgrading the suspension on you tube. I am guilty of watching too much you tube. I think it depends upon how you ride.
Suspension is okay for light riding. If you want to race or you should have gotten a 450R then those riders will want upgrades.
Anza? notaz3 We may practically be neighbors. I'm by Lake Skinner.

 

[denchen]

Her indoors said I was getting too old and wouldn't bounce like I did when I was younger. 'It has got to go', she said. I s

till wish I hadn't

 

[scootr]

Nice. That's old school

 

[notaz3]

Well I've already found what everybody says. If you ride it hard or fast the suspension is too soft and gets to bouncing. It is a good motorcycle but there sure are a lot of people upgrading the suspension on you tube. I am guilty of watching too much you tube. I think it depends upon how you ride.
Suspension is okay for light riding. If you want to race or you should have gotten a 450R then those riders will want upgrades.
Anza? notaz3 We may practically be neighbors. I'm by Lake Skinner.

La Quinta born a raised. Used to ride my Suzuki Bandit back and forth to Miramar every weekend. Now I'm retired and in Fresno or North Idaho.

 

[scootr]

La Quinta born a raised. Used to ride my Suzuki Bandit back and forth to Miramar every weekend. Now I'm retired and in Fresno or North Idaho.

La Quinta, where every boy grows up on a motorcycle. I started riding dirt in the high desert. Lived 20 yrs in JT. Speaking of riding Anza there is some beautiful riding up there and into Idyllwild on Mt San Jacinto.
I rode 50 miles of mostly dirt today. Came home and ordered some better tires for the new bike. Stock tires are street bias. I ordered a classic combo D606 rear and MT21 front. Loved this combo on my Yamaha

 

[deserteagle71]

I rode 50 miles of mostly dirt today. Came home and ordered some better tires for the new bike. Stock tires are street bias. I ordered a classic combo D606 rear and MT21 front. Loved this combo on my Yamaha

Dirt oriented tires was absolutely the first mod I had to make to my Yamaha. Stock tires....might as well have been riding on ice, the way they skated around on the "marbles" of the dirt roads around here.

 

[scootr]

Dirt oriented tires was absolutely the first mod I had to make to my Yamaha. Stock tires....might as well have been riding on ice, the way they skated around on the "marbles" of the dirt roads around here.

I guess that manufactures think dual sport is 90% street and 10 percent dirt riding... For a lot of us it's 90% dirt and 10% street...Whatever your percentage is that Dunlop D606 is the best dirt tire I've had the pleasure of riding. Aired down (18 psi) it has grip magic.
Can't wait for to get the rear rack and the phone holder on this thing. The next 2 essentials.

 

[scootr]

Is this even real?

 

[not2old]

Is this even real?

I used to wonder about what I read or heard but now it's also what I see.

 

[deserteagle71]

Can wait for to get the rear rack and the phone holder on this thing. The next 2 essentials.

Never had much luck using a phone as a navigating tool. The pounding of rough roads, plus the hot sun shining down on it, just made the phone shut down. So I use an old Delorme GPS unit, plus an old Garmin Montana. Both are powered by the bike's 12 volt system and have handled every terrain without problem....including some pretty good crashes!