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« Reply #3645 on: April 02, 2011, 08:43:11 PM »

Was at the shop and watched/helped Rick to set my suspension in range.  Thank u Rick! Rode it thu tantalus and 13 turns, def felt diffence for the better. 

Cool!...so you're ready to rock n roll tomorrow then... [moto]
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« Reply #3646 on: April 02, 2011, 10:28:13 PM »

Was at the shop and watched/helped Rick to set my suspension in range.  Thank u Rick! Rode it thu tantalus and 13 turns, def felt diffence for the better. 

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« Reply #3647 on: April 03, 2011, 02:08:00 PM »

Super Duked a squirrel today...
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« Reply #3648 on: April 03, 2011, 04:20:13 PM »

Didn't hurt the bike did it?  popcorn
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« Reply #3649 on: April 03, 2011, 07:23:14 PM »

Super Duked a squirrel today...

Is that some sort of east coast euphemism?  Grin
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« Reply #3650 on: April 03, 2011, 07:58:35 PM »

No, not at all.  Just a suicidal squirrel darted out, and straight into my line, while out riding today.  The guy behind me had his camera going and captured the twirling aftermath... 
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And the sugar fountain fairy swore so hard when she came to super-size that stale hope soybean; liiiike a homeless German woman. Who is this super-sizing spirit-crushing femme? And tell her I'll break a tree root up in her shrimp.

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« Reply #3651 on: April 04, 2011, 02:15:58 PM »

http://www.ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=39567.msg870742#msg870742
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« Reply #3652 on: April 04, 2011, 02:38:49 PM »

didn't catch the squirrel, I was preoccupied with that beautiful road... Grin
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« Reply #3653 on: April 04, 2011, 03:43:41 PM »

It was about the 1:34 mark.  Kind of hard to see it with the level of compression that was applied to the video file.  But if you listen really closely you can hear Ted start laughing.   Grin
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And the sugar fountain fairy swore so hard when she came to super-size that stale hope soybean; liiiike a homeless German woman. Who is this super-sizing spirit-crushing femme? And tell her I'll break a tree root up in her shrimp.

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« Reply #3654 on: April 04, 2011, 04:40:26 PM »

jebus,

was offered a brand new in the box giant talon 3 for $700.00[remeber i'm not in the US] ... is it a good choice .. been so long away from the sport ...
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« Reply #3655 on: April 06, 2011, 12:25:08 PM »

Bit more of last Sunday's ride:



Strange.  In the video it looks like I am leaning away from the turn in a lot of spots, but it feels like I am leaning into it when on that road...
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« Reply #3656 on: April 06, 2011, 03:38:21 PM »

Bit more of last Sunday's ride:



Strange.  In the video it looks like I am leaning away from the turn in a lot of spots, but it feels like I am leaning into it when on that road...

very nice road ... "ham sammich edition'?
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« Reply #3657 on: April 06, 2011, 10:37:43 PM »

Bit more of last Sunday's ride:



Strange.  In the video it looks like I am leaning away from the turn in a lot of spots, but it feels like I am leaning into it when on that road...

At around the 5 minute mark I notice you leaning away to the right in left turns. Right turns more body lean to the right. Before that mark your lower body would lean into the turns, left or right, but your head and sometimes shoulders would go back to straight up.

This is something I still play with. Do I just lean over with everything and try to make sense out of an extremely tilted "video" or do I get over and then try to get my visual back to a more normal vertical viewpoint?  I haven't figured out which is better and seem to be able to do both equally well or equally bad, depending....  laughingdp
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« Reply #3658 on: April 07, 2011, 06:40:07 AM »

Strange.  In the video it looks like I am leaning away from the turn in a lot of spots, but it feels like I am leaning into it when on that road...

Maybe due to the fact that the SD is more like a SM than a standard bike? Dunno, it happened to me when I took a demo ride on a 200cc SM type bike ...
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« Reply #3659 on: April 07, 2011, 07:18:48 AM »

just got back from kentucky and Ohio... i never wanted to have my bikes with me more that for the last 2 weeks. even though it was 40+ degrees
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