Topic: My new Sport Touring bike

[eatpasta]

....well more sport than touring and not THAT much sport.   

Its a TOTALLY different experience, riding a small displacement bike for hundreds of miles.  It felt like much more of a trip than with the big GS.


I bought this little screamer for my woman a year ago and it still hasn't gotten new tires 'till last week.   I took it to Santa Barbara where I rode much more than I thought I would then back to Los Angeles.  When all was said and done it got over 400 miles on it and ran like a top!   I even got 50 or so miles of two up time, which was nothing new for this thing.  Me and the woman have done whole days two up on the 400.

The head is leaking a bit, but what the hell - I got it for $1500.



here she is in the shop at Yamaha of Hollywood about to get tires.   Really good guys at Yamaha of Hollywood!



yes, I CRUSH the poor thing.

[joecool14u2]

hey, try leaning your body a little more into the turn and not leaning the other way, bit i suppose you already know this, seeing how you are scraping the ground and not to worried about it, does your woman let you do that with her on there?

[eatpasta]

yes..... and even with knobbies!

 

[andy750]

You should chat to Peter (Lazyguy) - he just completed a 3200 mile ride on his 400 riding from Boston, MA to Tennessee and back! Full story with photos here:

http://nehondaguys.info/forums/index.php?topic=136.0

Happy riding,

cheers
Andy

[eatpasta]

You should chat to Peter (Lazyguy) - he just completed a 3200 mile ride on his 400 riding from Boston, MA to Tennessee and back! Full story with photos here:

http://nehondaguys.info/forums/index.php?topic=136.0

Happy riding,

cheers
Andy

now THAT's a trip!!  I dont know that I would be able to go that long on one - maybe if there was no slab involved.... Im just too tall.

[HondaMan]

In the Rockies, trimmed-and-raised CB400F bikes rule. In cafe' slots and roads, they clip past almost everything but the newest uptight crotchrockets.

Judging from your pictures and fireworks: install taller, rounder metric tires and raise the rear suspension (higher spring notches back there), and add air forks. Then come over here and try it out!