Our winter here can be cold and we may get snow on one or two days. I mostly expect to get 10 or 12 days of clear blue skies to ride outside of ice in the morning if I can wait I reckon 40% of days will be rideable
well his licence plate is INDY after Indiana Jones - so he's a he haha.
The forks and stops had taken a beating, powder-coating was pealing on the frame at the triple-tree stops and the forks had a ding through the gold anodized finish into the fork tube. Wasn't worth it to me to spend more $$$ to repair seeing how much value my FTR1200 S had lost in just under a year of owning it. It was a fun bike, and I loved the looks/styling, brakes, exhaust note... not quite enough power to weight IMO, but a fun bike to ride and do hooligan stuff on. Ultimately the FTR wasn't good for me with my long interstate travel @ 80-85mph, the bars were buzzy and the fuel economy went to shit at those speeds. I'm able to get 140+ miles per tank on the MT-10 with cruise set at 81mph (the tank is roughly 1 gallon larger than the Indian). There are some things the Yamaha doesn't do as good - braking and the throttle snatch are two off the top of my head. Strangely, at 6' 2" the Yamaha fits me better in or out of a tuck than the FTR.
I believe it to be a combination of all the right/wrong things. Suspension settings and/or geometry mixed with cruise control set at just the right speed, and road-to-bridge then back to road segments caused some instability that just all went from bad to worse in less than a second. I checked the usual suspect (tire pressure) and it was spot on. I've been able to accelerate out of slappers in the past on other bikes, never had one that got violent like this while cruise control was active. Definitely won't be running cruise in that section of highway in the future - I40 is a toll road, yet one of the worst condition in the state. Not sure if it was the guardian bell that saved me, my guardian angel (dad), or the good Lord above... but I feel someone/something was definitely watching over me. Nothing like the moment of clarity before feeling like your life is gonna be taken away - it's good to be alive!
Hey Belair.
Love the mirrors. What are they?
