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Thanks for bringing that up before I felt the need to. It might be an over reaction on my part, but telling a novice to lean to turn will help get them scraped off the side of an oncoming truck in a sweeper. It does not work on its own. You need to apply more pressure to the bar to turn more and...

I've got your xs750 for sale right here with a collection of spare bits, Haynes, etc.. It's a 79 Special and yup they are quirky like anything when you're looking back 33 years. OT - it has the fork caps with the air valves but on everyone else's advice I ignored using that feature and treated...

What's being overlooked here is that if you want to operate the GPS with your gloves on you will need to check the specs for a pressure sensitive screen. Most GPS units now are capacitive screen which rely on your uncovered finger to respond. Zumo's and 2720/2820 will respond with gloves on. Not...

Fixed that for ya.

Good. With more interest in Yamaha 3 cylinders now maybe someone will buy my XS750 as "the classic that started it all". . . Time to rewrite my Kijiji :)

Flip that around to make sense of it: People that want a GXSR need an easier question to get the answer.

By that reasoning, we could still ride on the same day each year as long as we didn't get to the crash scene at exactly the same time of day as when the crash happened. Don't you hate thinking 'if I'd come to that intersection 1 minute earlier, I never would have been hit by that jerk."

LOL!!! ^^^ THIS !!! ^^^ When I need more road to myself I work it out so I'm the guy coming up on the right of your space at the red light. Look directly at the other rider through my visor. Give a big friendly wave with my hand at shoulder height and keep staring - wave again in five seconds...

I have to figure it's some guys from GTAM - just because. Who goes wailing up and down #17 (Pigeon Lake Road) after midnight, just south of Bobcaygen? Fess up.

Cam shaft? Drive shaft? You are mixing up the functions of the bike - engine vs drive train. 1/ Engine - the lower end has to turn the top end to operate one or more cam shafts that control the valves. that is transmitted either by a chain driven by gears, or a uninterrupted collection of gears...

I do miss my triple XS for the unique sound at any rpm. FJ weighs the same with twice the HP. So much more bike but I deserve it :). It's got a deceptively relaxed power delivery all the time. There are a good number of them on Kijiji. Good ones for no more than $3,000. Not so picky you are down...

Look into an old air cooled Yamaha FJ1100/1200 and you can afford to keep your existing bike too for when you don't want the size. Hauls a second person like they are not even on board, 50 mpg solo, long wheelbase, one piece seat, approx. 530 lb. Think pre-cursor to the Bandit 1200's. Problem is...

Maybe in this case you can speak to the misconception that's been popping up in the last few pages "Shoot to kill". That seriously annoys me. I've never been in, seen or heard any BASIC professional training that covers "shoot to kill". You're trained to aim for the center of the target - paper...

+1. It really does take more concentration on the workings of the "machine" so that takes your mind off the other hassles of life that don't belong with riding a motorcycle. I used to curse my carburetors and choke at every "cross my fingers" cold start of the 1979 triple but I can't imagine the...

I was there a week and it took almost an hour of that kind of road to get to his place from the PCH north of Malibu. We almost collected a Street Triple in the grill of the Caddy. General information from my host; riders and drivers have been known to go missing for weeks up in those canyons...

Tar snakes - yeah, they don't prepare you for that in class. Un-nerving but not pucker factor scary. I changed to tires with no center groove and went LOOKING for tar snakes to kill. My stomach butterflies and "shrinkage" come from seeing oncoming vehicles wander over the center line. I've lost...

OP. you didn't help any body else by letting this nut bar loose. You make a point of getting the licence and you report him for threatening. Most likely he's done this before and will do it again. I had a tow truck driver endangering a whole line of cars by trying to keep the two left wheels up...

Started at 50. If I was still living in T.O. (Downsview) I'd never have a bike. Alien and intimidating machines that took out several of my high school buddies and don't belong in that kind of traffic. Meanwhile I'd been paddling whitewater in C1's for years and I thought that was safer - to...

First season I was feeling clumsy with left turns, running wide on open road curves. Not so much on street turns, but still.... What helped was #1 visual - picking targets to lead me through the curve because I seemed to need more concentration to do that going left. #2 - taking my right hand...

Instructors generally do a great job in a very short span of time. So for every suggestion to add, something has to be taken off the schedule. Only going by my RTI course of 2004: Keep: Braking drills definitely saved my bacon because we did so much of it, the manoeuvres kicked in automatically...