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| jack1 | | Set |  |  | | Reg. Date | : | 27/11/2012 | | Posts | : | 73 | | Location | : | Australia |
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| | Posted : 30 Dec 2012 - 05:35 Post title : First ride through the hills | | | Went on my first ride today on the storm, through the Adelaide hills (good riding roads), the men in blue where out in force. (We have had a few motorcycle deaths over the xmas break). So the heavy hand comes down and pulls over all motorcyclists for a defect.
Anyway to my ride, the bike scrapes easy (foot pegs) seems to scrape well before the speedmaster used to, or the storm handles a lot better??? A few more rides and see how the tyres are wearing, but Im sure I'm not getting the lean angle of the speedie.
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| Bussa | | Set | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 01/10/2012 | | Posts | : | 442 | | Location | : | Sydney, NSW, Australia |
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| | Posted : 30 Dec 2012 - 08:38 Post title : Re: First ride through the hills (Re: jack1) | | | G'day jack1, I have heard a fair bit about those Hills,
I scraped the tits off my pegs in the 1st week of owning my 1600.
Eventually the hero knobs on the underside file down , may give you a bit more edge. 
In all, they are, a great bike to ride.
Happy riding.
Cheers,
Bussa.
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| ThunderRat | | Jupiter | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 08/03/2010 | | Posts | : | 1,056 | | Location | : | Castle Hill, NSW, Australia |
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| | Posted : 31 Dec 2012 - 23:04 Post title : Re: First ride through the hills (Re: jack1) | | | I had a Speedmaster before the bird. The bird has a lot more lean angle. If you are worried about the pegs scraping use an iPod so you won't hear anything!
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| Leethal | | Zeus | | | | Reg. Date | : | 24/01/2011 | | Posts | : | 6,520 | | Location | : | Australia |
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| | Posted : 01 Jan 2013 - 03:50 Post title : Re: First ride through the hills (Re: ThunderRat) | | | Don't know that you would hear it if it's strapped under the peg.
| Experience is something you get just after you needed it 
1600,Foran Razorbacks, Meerkat bypass, Dyno tune, real headlight,plenty of chrome,switchblade pegs, Nitron R3 shocks & Ikon progressive fork springs etc. Scorpion Western Low handlebars. PH adjustable fork caps.
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| hoonish | | Set | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 29/04/2012 | | Posts | : | 87 | | Location | : | New Zealand |
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| | Posted : 01 Jan 2013 - 05:01 Post title : Re: First ride through the hills (Re: jack1) | | |
jack1 wrote:
Went on my first ride today on the storm, through the Adelaide hills (good riding roads), the men in blue where out in force. (We have had a few motorcycle deaths over the xmas break). So the heavy hand comes down and pulls over all motorcyclists for a defect.
Anyway to my ride, the bike scrapes easy (foot pegs) seems to scrape well before the speedmaster used to, or the storm handles a lot better??? A few more rides and see how the tyres are wearing, but Im sure I'm not getting the lean angle of the speedie. |
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Hi Jack, I had the same experience when i got my storm, the Thunderbike fork caps I fitted made a huge improvement as they lift the front of the bike (and the pegs) a good 20-25mm off the ground.
Link The next improvement was cutting off the tit things that hit the road. Some time after that I bought some Hagon Nitro rear shocks and ordered them 1" longer than stock, fasteddy is the man to buy these through.
Link I used to scrape the catbox riding 2up, I'm running mine catless but i doubt the cat would scrape now the Hagons are fitted.
It's still possible to scrape a peg if i hit a big enough bump with the bike leaned over cornering but I can ride the beast down most twisty roads pretty fast and throw it around without anything scraping. I found i did have to modify my riding style a bit though, just a matter of slowing down a bit more before tight corners than you would on a sportbike!
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| jack1 | | Set | | | | Reg. Date | : | 27/11/2012 | | Posts | : | 73 | | Location | : | Australia |
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| | Posted : 01 Jan 2013 - 09:05 Post title : Re: First ride through the hills (Re: hoonish) | | | Sounds good I will look into some shocks and the front end improvements, I gather from what you are saying that the handling did not suffer from making the bike a bit higher?
I have ordered a set of pipes from Eddy (so I also will be catless) just a waiting game now.
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| hoonish | | Set | | | | Reg. Date | : | 29/04/2012 | | Posts | : | 87 | | Location | : | New Zealand |
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| | Posted : 02 Jan 2013 - 02:06 Post title : Re: First ride through the hills (Re: jack1) | | | No the steering didn't alter or seem slower from the slight increase in fork tube length. what is cool about the caps is that they increase the preload on the springs as well as allowing the fork tubes to be dropped in the triple clamps, that 's two things that increase cornering ability on these beasts. I have some hagon progressive front springs to fit but the bike is so much better already I haven't felt the need to fit them yet.
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| hoonish | | Set | | | | Reg. Date | : | 29/04/2012 | | Posts | : | 87 | | Location | : | New Zealand |
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| | Posted : 03 Jan 2013 - 00:46 Post title : Re: First ride through the hills (Re: hoonish) | | | realised i made a mistake in saying i got my hagons 1" longer - actually they are 10mm longer (350mm) than stock which are 340mm
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| jack1 | | Set | | | | Reg. Date | : | 27/11/2012 | | Posts | : | 73 | | Location | : | Australia |
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| | Posted : 03 Jan 2013 - 07:16 Post title : Re: First ride through the hills (Re: hoonish) | | | Thanks for clearing that up, I went into fast eddys site and could not find any 1" inch longer (25m).
R the Hagons fully servicible (can you pull the guts out)? They seem cheap enough.
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| hoonish | | Set | | | | Reg. Date | : | 29/04/2012 | | Posts | : | 87 | | Location | : | New Zealand |
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| | Posted : 03 Jan 2013 - 09:38 Post title : Re: First ride through the hills (Re: jack1) | | | Yes completely rebuildable, don't know about cheap though, mine cost a packet with the exchange rate and import duty here but probably cheaper for you in ozz
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