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Originally Posted by Jools You might want to give it a bit more time and learn how to ride the bloody thing first Seriously, you know that it took me a good few months to learn how to ride the 888 anywhere near properly after the ST. After the ST with it's big wide bars and jacked up ride height which helped it turn more quickly, it took me a good old while to get the confidence together to give the bars a good old push to countersteer...I was worried that I would overdo the countersteering and end up washing the front out. But, after the ST I've discovered that the 888 is just a bike that loves to be bossed about. If you go at it with caution it won't respond, if you take it by it's scruff and make it do what you want it loves it. The harder you ride the better it gets. I think that the 749 won't be quite so raw as a T8, but it'll still take more bossing than an ST. |
think i've got the basics now thanks jools
i can now deffinatly go round a bend a fair bit quiker on the 749 than the st
as you say a fair bit of aggresion on the bars is deffinatly required
i also note that you have to be a lot more ham fisted with the throttle in order to make progress
what i cant yet do is get the 749 to respond well to a series of bends it just takes to long and to much effort to pull over from fully banked one side to the other.how ever much oumph you put into the counter steer.
i'm fully aware that this can be fixed with a easy bit off hight adjustment front and rear.
before i do this though i want to investigate what the negatives of changing the steering angle are.
if i can speed up the steering without tilting the bike forwards any more i think it's the way to go?