Porky
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- Joined
- Jul 12, 2015
- Messages
- 108
- Location
- Carthage, Missouri 64836
- Ride
- 2012 Rocket 3 Roadster. 2012 Burgman 650 Executive.
I rode the ROCKET this morning on my usual Breakfast ride and put 186 miles round trip on her, after consuming enough high calorie stuff at the Buffet to kill the average man!
I rode from Carthage, Missouri to Marionville to Crain and skirted the western edge of Branson, then went west into the Mark Twain National forest and past Roaring river state park, through Cassville and north back to home base.
it started out at 75 degrees and with the Humidity it actually felt cool, however it was 90 when I got home with a 100 degree heat index.
I noticed today that there were long stretches of highway where I was cruising along at 55-65 mph and I glanced down at the gear indicator gage and I'd been in 4th gear for quite a few miles. This sure isn't the first time I've done this of course but it seemed like today, I did it a lot. I guess big bikes don't easily give away the fact that they are in a lower gear, since the rpm's are so low anyway.
How about you? Does it happen to you?
Sam
I rode from Carthage, Missouri to Marionville to Crain and skirted the western edge of Branson, then went west into the Mark Twain National forest and past Roaring river state park, through Cassville and north back to home base.
it started out at 75 degrees and with the Humidity it actually felt cool, however it was 90 when I got home with a 100 degree heat index.
I noticed today that there were long stretches of highway where I was cruising along at 55-65 mph and I glanced down at the gear indicator gage and I'd been in 4th gear for quite a few miles. This sure isn't the first time I've done this of course but it seemed like today, I did it a lot. I guess big bikes don't easily give away the fact that they are in a lower gear, since the rpm's are so low anyway.
How about you? Does it happen to you?
Sam