SteveV Wrote:Love this machine now, done nearly 1,500 kms around Sydney over the last week and a half taking the looooong way to work and back, lunch time and late at night rides. It's a very refined piece of electro-mechanical art. I'm not sure that it's well known but compared to a cruiser you can lean it right over and go round corners really fast which is actually quite pleasant ;-)

SteveV Wrote:Hey now thats a good idea, how and when can you ride at Eastern Creek, does it cost ?

Wide corners and no traffic, sounds like heaven.

I actually haven't ridden it very fast yet because I did find it such a different experience from the cruiser, but Im becoming more confident and precise the more I ride it. I dont want to endanger my own life let alone anybody elses.

It feels much more comfortable now, its a bit like riding a horse rather than an arm chair and my wrists arent too bad althought they do get a tired quickly ridng round town, I expect it would be easier on the highway. I would like to see if bar risers made much difference. The other thing which might help is to lower the angle of the levers, which seems to be possible but at this stage with a complete lack of mechanical ability I would rather not pull out the rusty old wrench.

Damn this thing goes thru the petrol, the XVS1300 was better for that, lucky I didn't buy the M109R !

SteveV Wrote:Hey now thats a good idea, how and when can you ride at Eastern Creek, does it cost ?

Wide corners and no traffic, sounds like heaven.