Motorcycle and Scooter appreciation

Bitterly cold out, but a quick 40-ish miles through some country roads to get out the house. With earplugs in I barely hear the bike, and with cold painful hands I can barely feel the vibrations too! Toward the end of the ride it was difficult to gauge my clutch hand position and feel the revs because of the cold, but the bike performed admirably. No mis-shifts, nothing felt too clunky, no weird false neutrals, slowly learning the bike’s behaviours.

Early on in town traffic, at 30-35mph I managed to lock the rear and do a little wiggle while stopping quickly. A car turning right across my path on a mini roundabout approached very fast and didn’t slow at all or check to his right. I’d anticipated this particular mini roundabout but he really fly out of the street, and appeared to slow to a near dead stop as soon as he was in front of me.

Progressive front braking had me slow and stop on the line but what I thought was smooth rear braking had the back slide a bit side to side. Absolutely fine, stopped with well enough room and on the line.

Definitely need a new rear tyre, though: it’s quite old so I assume it is just too hard. At least there was no panic involved. This has happened on a couple occasions. I don’t mind being able to lock up the rear but I’d like to rule out tyre age/condition as a cause of concern asap.

Need to get some small bolts to permanently fix the box to the bike. Quite happy with its size. I can’t see it in my mirrors or when shoulder-checking, so it isn’t impacting on my view at all, and no feeling of contents rattling around either.

Bike needs some pink accents. It’s just too black and orange at the moment.

I found a Troll at home, so that will be attached to the bike in due course.

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