Snoking1127
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Just remember to look to where you want to go! And put pressure on your outside foot. Don't get distracted looking at an oncoming vehicle.
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First time ride on my Spyder today - I think I'm gonna like it!
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mecsw500
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I started out on a Spyder 5 years ago. The ride home from the dealer convinced my I should take it back and unwind the deal. It scared the living daylights out of me. I’d never ridden an off-road or snowmobile so I didn’t get not being able to steer by counter steering at all.
But I persevered and took the BRP course and now five years later I’m pretty cool with them.
It took me at least a 1,000 miles to stop with the death grip and over compensating and overreacting to its manner of going down the road. In fact, that first summer season with Covid and that cut down the miles but I got the hang of it eventuality. Even front tire pressures are extremely important. Being even a single psi out cab plan maje
I still ride the Dave Moss “Two Clicks Out” method of brake, steer, power so I guess I’m not the fastest rider out there and lifting inside wheels means I’ve over done it and my wife won’t be happy.
We do canyons, surface streets and freeways and we seem to keep up with most thing. Our new 26 S2S seems to handle better, the new XPS Kenda tires are far better than the originals.
Getting above 80 mph and there are issues trying to pushing a shed sideways down rhe road.
But I persevered and took the BRP course and now five years later I’m pretty cool with them.
It took me at least a 1,000 miles to stop with the death grip and over compensating and overreacting to its manner of going down the road. In fact, that first summer season with Covid and that cut down the miles but I got the hang of it eventuality. Even front tire pressures are extremely important. Being even a single psi out cab plan maje
I still ride the Dave Moss “Two Clicks Out” method of brake, steer, power so I guess I’m not the fastest rider out there and lifting inside wheels means I’ve over done it and my wife won’t be happy.
We do canyons, surface streets and freeways and we seem to keep up with most thing. Our new 26 S2S seems to handle better, the new XPS Kenda tires are far better than the originals.
Getting above 80 mph and there are issues trying to pushing a shed sideways down rhe road.
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Little Blue
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Glad to hear you're getting settled into Ryding your Spyder. I too have a small issue with my left corners. Maybe it is a Safety thing?
Hang in there and enjoy the Time. 
Snoking1127
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We here in the East Valley of Phoenix have a great little scenic ride in the twisties from Apache Junction to the end of the payment past Canyon Lake/Tortilla flats. 25.8 miles one way from my place. Gives one's upper body a bit of a workout, and teaches you to lean forward and into the corners while pushing down the outside floor board with your foot. The crotch rocket guys go unbelievably fast on this road with lots of steep drop offs with no guard rails.
mecsw500
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I have an terrible fear of heights. I ride the Canyons here in Utah, but the ones near me I'm OK with. Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado, oh boy, never again. I'm not too bad if there are barriers, but steep drop offs with no barriers and I'm not going that way.
I know, for a grown man to admit to this it feels stupid, but that's just the way it is. I get all sweaty, giddy and feel both sick and like I'm going to pass out. I can't do ski lifts, gondolas or roller coasters. Even going right up to windows in tall buildings makes me distinctly nervous. Having flown millions of miles in my lifetime, I'm still terrified of flying. It's all completely ridiculous but it's got worse as I get older, not better.
Riding fast on two, three or four wheels on such roads with no barriers and steep drop offs, not happening.
Hey don't feel bad, I'm the same way. Bridges, cliffs, skyways, glass elevators - all that stuff scares the crap out of me. My wife and I rode my Guzzi to the Barber Museum from Ohio back in 2009. We get there and you have to walk on a bridge to get to the elevator for each floor. I'm freaking out!!! We rode here and now I'm not gonna be able to see all these bikes? My wife had to hold my hand to get me on that damn elevator. It sucks! I feel like I'm going to jump off the edge. I could never use a tree stand when I deer hunted either. I raced hare scrambles in my 20's and I had to go around any jumps because the height scared me ****less.
mecsw500
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Oh I love Moto-Guzzis. It's been many years, decades even, since I owned one. My wife has to hold my hand too when on high walk ways or tall escalators. The very same feeling, it's like the heights are calling you to jump off. The Tacoma Narrows bridge in Washington State really freaked me out. I crossed it at about 10 mph in my car with a death grip on the steering. Came back the long way around via the ferry. The Verrazzano–Narrows Bridge in NY/NJ freaked me out too. You don't know that you're going to cross these things until you get on the approach and you cannot turn around. Everyone else in my family has no fear at all, my brothers, my wife, our kids, they just don't understand the sheer terror.
Back in the late 90’s I was responsible for planning monthly rides for the Mid-Atlantic region members of the Concours Owners Group (motorcycles). One of the rides I came up with was the Crab Cake Ride in March. We’d meet at a Denny’s on the western side of the Chesapeake Bay for breakfast, then cross over the Bay Bridge to the Eastern Shore. After a jaunt around the various sites of interest I’d laid out, we’d head for a notable restaurant for a late lunch and of course, crab cakes. Little did I know, one member had to back out of crossing the bridge because of his fear of heights. In the following years, and with his blessing, we continued that March ride. He’d join us for breakfast, to enjoy the fellowship, ride his own ride then head for home. That CC ride continued each March under new leaders up until a couple of years ago.
FWIW – The State apparently has standby drivers on each side of the Bridge to take people across (in their cars) who have a similar fear of heights and can’t handle the stress of doing it themselves.
FWIW – The State apparently has standby drivers on each side of the Bridge to take people across (in their cars) who have a similar fear of heights and can’t handle the stress of doing it themselves.
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I finally got the chance to cross the Mackinac bridge last June (on my 2-wheel Beemer). But it was a foggy drizzly morning with a stiff cross wind. Not advisable for beginning riders. But for myself and the group I was with, it turned out to be a nothing burger.
Now a few days later, on the return trip, the afternoon was clear and sunny and I actually got to see the view from up on that high bridge. Pretty neat.
Now a few days later, on the return trip, the afternoon was clear and sunny and I actually got to see the view from up on that high bridge. Pretty neat.
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