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I read my post again, and I should have been more clear. In my case it was just a regular 3 or 4 car pile-up, and while I can't remember the cars involved I am sure there weren't any trucks larger than a pickup or SUV. I was following at a normal distance, about 2 seconds back when the car in...

Did that mechanic take off the forks to check them? Unless there's a major bend or kink in them, there's no reliable way to determine if they need replacing. Even then tubes can be replaced or straightened. And if he seals are leaking, those an be fixed too with a fork rebuild. Only if you're...

Forget whether or not the vehicle in front slams on the brakes. What if the vehicle you're following hits a stationary object like a truck? That will bring them to a stop faster than you can blink. I had that happen to me on the 400, and only by instantly changing lanes I was able to avoid...

That had nothing to do with it. Sadly people die on motorcycles too often, but such blitzes only happen on the weekends and only on roads that are known for motorcycle riders. Saturday I rode up to Parry Sound from Toronto and I counted at least 20 cruisers parked along or patrolling the 400...

I posted this earlier in the thread, but if you are braking at the limit the back of your supersport bike will be nowhere close to the pavement. If anything, it will be a struggle not to flip the bike over even on a flat road. Downhill I can only imagine it's crazy. :D

If you did not pull a stoppie while braking on a VFR, you were not braking hard enough (or your tires were cold, which is unlikely after a ride to the Forks). Think back, are you sure you did not get scared and dumped the bike? Through my own stupidity I managed to rear end a car with my SV last...

Except for the swingarm, the bike looks great. Congrats. :)

http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=136505 What is truly impressive is how people came together to help the fallen rider, and then to cope with his untimely exit. And there I was, worried about my big arse not fitting into old gear... Certainly puts things into a different perspective.

Lol thanks, but I just turned from a scrawny guy to a normal sized one. My question was if anyone knows of a particular shop they dealt with in the past. Finding businesses in the yellow pages is a bit of a gamble in terms of quality of work.

I've had my trusty leather equipment for 6 years. A Dainese two piece suit and a 1980s vintage jacket that used to fit me perfectly, but now I've outgrown them. I was hoping if I kept wearing them they would stretch, but sadly the vintage jacket just ripped apart at the seams. It wasn't...

Good apology.

I agree bike mirrors are tricky to cover the blind spots because they are a lot smaller. At the same time, they are also closer to the rider. So even a small shift of your head changes the viewing angle considerably, allowing you to see the blind spots as well as far behind. But that does...

My mirrors are definitely not loose. Like I said, the bike just vibrates enough to make anything beyond a couple hundred meters back a total blur. If you guys think that the crappy rider and driver training courses we get in Canada are the gospel, you're welcome to your opinion. But did you...

Side mirrors on a bike or car are just to see in the blind spot. If you use them to see all the way behind your vehicle, you're using them wrong. In my case, if I'm going past 40km/h, the mirrors on my gsxr are vibrating too much to be of any use long distance. I have to turn my head anyway...

If he had been filtering, his feet would have been on the pegs and not under car wheels.

I completely agree. Even if the line ending up across Warden was not a malicious act, whoever did this should be held accountable. Having stuff like this lying around everywhere is simply criminal behaviour. Check out what a member from another forum found all over his back yard Clicky

It's not arguably less stable on the center stand, it IS less stable. I could calculate the forces required, but for that I'd need to break out my Physics textbook that I haven't opened in 10 years. Internet arguments are really not worth reviewing a few chapters of stuff I'd rather not...

I agree with the rest of your post, but never park the bike on the centre stand. It may look more stable than the kickstand, but even a slight nudge can topple the bike over.

I had no idea, and I HATE it when manufacturers do that. And it happens everywhere. I just returned a Lenovo Ideapad y570 to Canada Computers because of similar false advertising. Lenovo specifies the video card as a Geforce GT555m in all their publications, but only when you benchmark it you...

Why didn't you say your bike was stretched from the beginning?!? This whole discussion just became academic. Discussing tire performance for a bike whose handling characteristics have already been severely compromised is pointless. Now you might as well go with some cheap touring tires, you'll...