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(07-20-2014, 04:11 AM)VTR1000F_imp Wrote: Regarding flashing bar... I had a hard moments today. Travelling from a great weekend with a passenger, I unleashed the CB on the autobahn, leaned on it a bit and travelling steady on the speed limiter I looked at my instrument after some time and saw the bar flashing! I did not know how long it was flashing at the moment so I backed down to emergency-economy mode and limping at 55 mph waiting for next gas station. Finally we reached a gas station I filled up the bike and calculated there was only 0.5 litre left. I was lucky!
An object lesson in aerodynamics. I've found that a steady 60 mph can deliver mid 50s mpg. A constant 85 mph is in the mid 40s. I can imagine that running a constant 112 mph would net you somewhere in the low 30s.
In aviation it's well known that to double your speed requires 4 times the HP (which directly correlates to fuel consumption).
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(07-18-2014, 11:21 PM)CB4ME_imp Wrote: Carl - sorry to hear about the slo-mo tip over. It's all to easy to do. I haven't lost my CB yet but have had a couple of interesting moments. Glad the damage was minimal.
I have a sort of related question to forum members. Who mounts or dismounts their bike without the sidestand being extended? In my youth I did all the time.
I don't ever use the side stand; I get off the bike with it being vertical, and put it on the center stand immediately. I also don't ever move the bike without being on it. Awkward, but less risky.
Thanks to my turntable I don't have to back the thing into the garage anymore either. I'm all for minimizing risk and I don't see the side stand as risk avoidance at all.
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(07-21-2014, 12:27 AM)shdwghst457_imp Wrote: (07-18-2014, 11:21 PM)CB4ME_imp Wrote: Carl - sorry to hear about the slo-mo tip over. It's all to easy to do. I haven't lost my CB yet but have had a couple of interesting moments. Glad the damage was minimal.
I have a sort of related question to forum members. Who mounts or dismounts their bike without the sidestand being extended? In my youth I did all the time.
I don't ever use the side stand; I get off the bike with it being vertical, and put it on the center stand immediately. I also don't ever move the bike without being on it. Awkward, but less risky.
Thanks to my turntable I don't have to back the thing into the garage anymore either. I'm all for minimizing risk and I don't see the side stand as risk avoidance at all.
I don't ever use the side stand; I get off the bike with it being vertical, and put it on the center stand immediately. I also don't ever move the bike without being on it. Awkward, but less risky.
Thanks to my turntable I don't have to back the thing into the garage anymore either. I'm all for minimizing risk and I don't see the side stand as risk avoidance at all.
I'm on the other side with this - never on or off without the side stand down. I'm nowhere near confident enough in my balancing ability with this heavy of a bike to do anything else. Especially since there's a tail bag on the passenger seat, which creates the need for a good, high, kung fu leg swing to clear it.
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I always get off with the side stand down and the bars turned left, so that if it wants to go somewhere, it wants to go onto the side stand. I also keep the side stand down when I put the bike on the center stand, and especially when taking it off the center stand (with the bars turned left, of course).
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Hate to say it (embarrassed is more like it) but I rolled mine yesterday evening.
Just finished a 1-1/2 hr ride through the Lincoln hills of So. IN and pulled up to park the CB under one of my a large shade trees. Hit a patch of damp clover when I applied the front brake and was over on my side before I even knew what happened. Cracked the plastic speedometer housing but other than that the bike looks OK. Literally "slid into home" I guess.
This is the second time I've locked up the front tire, I wish now I would have gone for the anti-lock version. BTW - I don't think the back brake is worth a darn!
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The back brake is kinda crappy, but you may have air in it from the factory. I did, and so did at least 4 others on the board. Only one had a dealer that would do something about it. Mine wouldn't so I bled it myself and a LOT of air came out.
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it is so easy to tip over because the CB1100 is heavy.
1) I stop the bike and land my left foot on a dry leave, slip on it and almost tip over
2) on a country road, I stop to turn, one wheel on the high cement of gas station, one wheel on the road, put my foot down and the trench for water run off is much deeper, finding my footing, the bike is leaned over too much, almost tip over.
it is almost always that accident can happen at lower speed. Study shows that accident happens more frequently closer to one's house. When he leaves, when he about to get home.
