This last weekend the trip to SLC on the bike was both good and bad.
The bad was because if my knee. The tendon took a couple minutes to stretch back out. This meant when I came to a stop, I could only put down my right foot.
That’s not good. If I tipped to the left, I’d have gone down because I had nothing to stop it.
Once I was rolling though, it was smooth sailing. The bike loves to cruise. It ran flawlessly and turned in 48 mpg. I topped off in Lapoint and didn’t have to gas up again untill I was well into SLC.
On my Magna or Superhawk, I’d have refilled twice more. I’ve never had a bike with this much range.
I couldn’t be happier with the Kawasaki.
Well, lets figure out how to drop those pegs a little!
I’m not too worried.
Ya start getting old and that cruiser/goldwing starts looking good.
I give the Gold Wing crowd a hard time… Calling it the Florida Retirement for Motorcyclists. That’s actually pretty wrong.
That would be a Harley Trike.
And I’m no where near there. I’d opt for a Concourse 14.
Feel free to contact me regarding your bum knee. Free advice…trust me..I’m a Doctor of Physical Therapy specializing in Sportsmedicine AND a motorcycle rider…most think its an odd combo..I say screw em…live a little…
Thanks Buck. Where are you located at? What City? I may stop by if you are not too far or in New York or California.
Here is something that might be of interest then:
http://www.atomicnerds.com/?p=5820
Huh.
Georgia. West of ATL approx 45min…sorry so far. I’ll be happy to consult via email or phone.
It sounds like your bike is perfectly tuned to get that milage from such a large sport bike. My old ZX10 was a bit of a gas hog but she wore a tuned pipe and the jets were on the large side (which led to other problems…but that’s another story) and I would go from Ramstein to Bitburg with a little under a gallon left in the tank.
pshaw!! You want range, you want a Honda ST1300. Comfort, range, power, range, weather protection, range, carrying capacity, range.
Did I mention it has range? 7.7 gal tank.
I’ll take a look at one.