(06-26-2016, 08:43 AM)LongRanger_imp Wrote: I have several bikes and there's always one in reserve when another one is down for service, but I would never ride on tires that worn. Your rear isn't too squared but that front is trashed! How many miles on them?

(06-26-2016, 09:18 AM)The ferret_imp Wrote: I'd have still been riding on those. They handle a little weird, harder to turn in, but they will still roll.

(06-26-2016, 09:34 AM)husky385_imp Wrote:

(06-26-2016, 08:43 AM)LongRanger_imp Wrote: I have several bikes and there's always one in reserve when another one is down for service, but I would never ride on tires that worn. Your rear isn't too squared but that front is trashed! How many miles on them?

9901 miles. Yea the front one is the one I was mostly concerned with.
Kevin

(06-26-2016, 09:18 AM)The ferret_imp Wrote: I'd have still been riding on those. They handle a little weird, harder to turn in, but they will still roll.

I wanted to keep riding on them just to keep up with you on the mileage count, but chickened out. Look out next month though.
Kevin

(06-26-2016, 07:38 AM)husky385_imp Wrote: I like riding this motorcycle a lot, I mean obsessively a lot.
I have needed new tires for a while now. Apparently I don't have the willpower to stop riding.
So yesterday I removed the wheels and tires to keep from making excuses to continue to ride (like I'm just going around town).
I will be able to get new ones around the first of July.
Anyone else have to do something like this to keep themselves in check?
Kevin

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(06-27-2016, 12:31 AM)SailorRider_imp Wrote:

(06-26-2016, 07:38 AM)husky385_imp Wrote: I like riding this motorcycle a lot, I mean obsessively a lot.
I have needed new tires for a while now. Apparently I don't have the willpower to stop riding.
So yesterday I removed the wheels and tires to keep from making excuses to continue to ride (like I'm just going around town).
I will be able to get new ones around the first of July.
Anyone else have to do something like this to keep themselves in check?
Kevin

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Yes. I made myself a promise to try to hit a 10:1 ratio of miles put on the CB1100 to miles I put on my road bicycle. So far I think I am close this spring/summer, although I am not compulsive about recording/checking. Helps to stay in shape, and in many ways my bicycle riding informs my motorcycle riding and vice versa.

(06-27-2016, 01:59 AM)Ulvetanna_imp Wrote:

(06-27-2016, 12:31 AM)SailorRider_imp Wrote:

(06-26-2016, 07:38 AM)husky385_imp Wrote: I like riding this motorcycle a lot, I mean obsessively a lot.
I have needed new tires for a while now. Apparently I don't have the willpower to stop riding.
So yesterday I removed the wheels and tires to keep from making excuses to continue to ride (like I'm just going around town).
I will be able to get new ones around the first of July.
Anyone else have to do something like this to keep themselves in check?
Kevin

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Yes. I made myself a promise to try to hit a 10:1 ratio of miles put on the CB1100 to miles I put on my road bicycle. So far I think I am close this spring/summer, although I am not compulsive about recording/checking. Helps to stay in shape, and in many ways my bicycle riding informs my motorcycle riding and vice versa.

You can try all these metrics but in the end going by what your body and mind tell you works a lot better.

I also road cycle and was very dedicated to it for several years. Rode about 500 miles a month and lots of climbing, averages about 100 vertical feet per mile where I ride.

I found that when I took up motorcycling again the road cycling was detrimental. Such a totally different discipline. The only way I was helped is that I could smoke most traditional roadies on descents because of my racetrack experience.

Studies now show that heavy aerobic excercise sessions actually create a high level of chronic fatigue and that is just how I felt for those years of serious cycling. That's why all these pros use doping, the human body cannot endure that type of torture.

About 30 minutes of resistance training 3X week is better for you. Track days are brutal; I'm in anaerobic the whole 15 minute session, HR at about 160. That's six sessions a day. Takes a few days to recover but overall I feel a lot better than I did when I was cycling.

Just ride your motorcycle if that's what you like. Ride your bicycle if that's what you like. Do both. Watch TV. Do what you like to do.

BTW, finding excuses to ride is what we motorcyclists do. I'm always finding excuses to ride. Why own a bike otherwise?

(06-27-2016, 06:51 AM)SailorRider_imp Wrote:

(06-27-2016, 01:59 AM)Ulvetanna_imp Wrote:

(06-27-2016, 12:31 AM)SailorRider_imp Wrote:

(06-26-2016, 07:38 AM)husky385_imp Wrote: I like riding this motorcycle a lot, I mean obsessively a lot.
I have needed new tires for a while now. Apparently I don't have the willpower to stop riding.
So yesterday I removed the wheels and tires to keep from making excuses to continue to ride (like I'm just going around town).
I will be able to get new ones around the first of July.
Anyone else have to do something like this to keep themselves in check?
Kevin

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Yes. I made myself a promise to try to hit a 10:1 ratio of miles put on the CB1100 to miles I put on my road bicycle. So far I think I am close this spring/summer, although I am not compulsive about recording/checking. Helps to stay in shape, and in many ways my bicycle riding informs my motorcycle riding and vice versa.

You can try all these metrics but in the end going by what your body and mind tell you works a lot better.

I also road cycle and was very dedicated to it for several years. Rode about 500 miles a month and lots of climbing, averages about 100 vertical feet per mile where I ride.

I found that when I took up motorcycling again the road cycling was detrimental. Such a totally different discipline. The only way I was helped is that I could smoke most traditional roadies on descents because of my racetrack experience.

Studies now show that heavy aerobic excercise sessions actually create a high level of chronic fatigue and that is just how I felt for those years of serious cycling. That's why all these pros use doping, the human body cannot endure that type of torture.

About 30 minutes of resistance training 3X week is better for you. Track days are brutal; I'm in anaerobic the whole 15 minute session, HR at about 160. That's six sessions a day. Takes a few days to recover but overall I feel a lot better than I did when I was cycling.

Just ride your motorcycle if that's what you like. Ride your bicycle if that's what you like. Do both. Watch TV. Do what you like to do.

BTW, finding excuses to ride is what we motorcyclists do. I'm always finding excuses to ride. Why own a bike otherwise?

You can try all these metrics but in the end going by what your body and mind tell you works a lot better.

I also road cycle and was very dedicated to it for several years. Rode about 500 miles a month and lots of climbing, averages about 100 vertical feet per mile where I ride.

I found that when I took up motorcycling again the road cycling was detrimental. Such a totally different discipline. The only way I was helped is that I could smoke most traditional roadies on descents because of my racetrack experience.

Studies now show that heavy aerobic excercise sessions actually create a high level of chronic fatigue and that is just how I felt for those years of serious cycling. That's why all these pros use doping, the human body cannot endure that type of torture.

About 30 minutes of resistance training 3X week is better for you. Track days are brutal; I'm in anaerobic the whole 15 minute session, HR at about 160. That's six sessions a day. Takes a few days to recover but overall I feel a lot better than I did when I was cycling.

Just ride your motorcycle if that's what you like. Ride your bicycle if that's what you like. Do both. Watch TV. Do what you like to do.

BTW, finding excuses to ride is what we motorcyclists do. I'm always finding excuses to ride. Why own a bike otherwise?
I agree with your comments. Note that I do enjoy cycling quite a bit on its own, and would not ever call my level of cycling "heavy". 500 miles a month? Not me, maybe 500 miles a year, if that. Just a decent dose of cardio without overdoing it. And I do try to get resistance in as well, more important than ever as I progress through my 50s.