I would agree with you living in maniac land, but here you're lucky to see a car or truck on the road at certain times and since the chinese stopped coming, during winter there's no one on the roads. Especially a lovely coastal road which has never ending bends drops, rises and more bends. Rode it yesterday to test the bike out before rego, down here we can get a 28 day rego for moving unregistered vehicles, bikes and trailers for $50. It has restrictions, you can't go for long rides and supposedly can only use it for taking it for repairs, inspections and testing. When I got the permit last week, explained to the lady at Service Tas that the closet test station was 75klms from me, so she set the distance able to travel from home at 100klms and said, that should give you enough distance to test it out, with a big smile on her face.supersparky wrote: ↑Fri Jun 28, 2024 8:23 am I used to ride a motorbike years ago, all over the place. Dunno that I would want to do that these days. Some motorbikes are invisible to some drivers, apparently.
Have a top day everybody. Safe travels
Yesterday was a lovely warm day for winter, (14deg) and had to bake the flame proof paint on the exhausts, the cost of re-chroming them was horrendous, so panelled all the scratches and dents out and gave them 2 coats of VHT flame proof primer, 5 coats VHT flame proof black, then put 3 coats of VHT flame proof clear. To cure the paint you need to bring the exhaust to 300deg for 10 mins, let it cool and then bring it to 600 for 10 minutes, let it cool then bring them to 600 for 20 minutes. So visited a band member about 10klms away, had to 10 minute chat as he was working on his bus, visited our ex singer who lives 35klms from me and helped her partner in his workshop restoring a 1965 anniversary model customline ex cop car for half an hour. Then headed for the coast road via the highway, which is also a lovely winding road with straight stretches of about 1klm.
The coastal ride coming back was a dream, been looking forward to taking the bike on that road since I got it and it was a real cruise. Never owned a big cruiser before and now know why they called it a VTX, (V twin extreme), It's certainly extreme with 100hp and frightening torque, wrapped in on once and nearly threw me off the back, so took it carefully from that point and slowly put on the power until feel I can do head stands on it at 100kph, then watch out.
I had a 25km ride each way from the far western reaches behind Liverpool, to the back of Homebush Abattoirs to the trucking company I worked for at the time.
