05-27-2015, 11:40 AM
I recently sold my (2014) Valkyrie and ended up with a CB1100. Compared to the Valkyrie the CB feels like a bicycle!
One time I was going down a hill on the Valkyrie and near the bottom of the hill, around a curve, there were concrete barriers across the road, with no way to go between them. The road was "out of service" since the last time I had ridden through there! Anyways, I stopped within 2-3 feet of the concrete barriers and when I later figured out I needed to leave from whence I came, I couldn't push the bike back up the hill (backwards) at all, to turn it around! I ended up doing 1000+ 3 point turns, each about a millimeter closer to freedom. The bike got real hot and the clutch got a bit cranky but I survived. It seems funny now but at the time it kicked my arse bad!
One time I was going down a hill on the Valkyrie and near the bottom of the hill, around a curve, there were concrete barriers across the road, with no way to go between them. The road was "out of service" since the last time I had ridden through there! Anyways, I stopped within 2-3 feet of the concrete barriers and when I later figured out I needed to leave from whence I came, I couldn't push the bike back up the hill (backwards) at all, to turn it around! I ended up doing 1000+ 3 point turns, each about a millimeter closer to freedom. The bike got real hot and the clutch got a bit cranky but I survived. It seems funny now but at the time it kicked my arse bad!