lean surge

[pete88chester]

A lot of good responses. The Smiths System had a lot of good points, especially not pulling up close on the vehicle stopped in front & keeping your eyes moving front, back & sides. One thing I do to get people at side streets, driveways, etc. to notice me, is to cause my bike's headlight to shake a little. I do this by putting a little back & forth counter steering effort into the handlebars. Just enough to cause the head light to move back & forth about one foot three or four times. Do not weave all over the lane, the cops will think you are drunk or screwing around. Don't do it too far back, they won't notice. The shaking headlight really gets their attention; most of the time I see the cagers do a double take look. They may think I am nuts, but I don't care as long as the notice me. The main thing though is that you not only have to drive for your self, but you need to drive for everybody else. You cannot assume anybody else is a competent driver that will do the right thing. Pete A16

[kdxkawboy@aol.com]

In a message dated 2003-04-21 10:19:47 PM Pacific Daylight Time, ppchester@... writes:

> > A lot of good responses. The Smiths System had a lot of good points, > especially not pulling up close on the vehicle stopped in front & > keeping your eyes moving front, back &sides. One thing I do to get > people at side streets, driveways, etc. to notice me, is to cause my > bike's headlight to shake a little. I do this by putting a little > back &forth counter steering effort into the handlebars. Just > enough to cause the head light to move back &forth about one foot > three or four times. Do not weave all over the lane, the cops will > think you are drunk or screwing around. Don't do it too far back, > they won't notice. The shaking headlight really gets their > attention; most of the time I see the cagers do a double take look. > They may think I am nuts, but I don't care as long as the notice me. > >

There is a lot to this idea as well. People don't expect to see a waggin' headlight coming at them. By doing something 'different' you catch their attention, especially those folks that need some prodding to pay attention. This is a good reason to put a headlight modulator on your bike. If you have ever noticed one on a bike coming at you it did I pretty good job of catching your attention. I've been riding since '69 and have been using a headlight modulator since '99. All I know is either drivers suddenly decided to become courteous of motorcyclists in general in '99 or because that modulator gets their attention I'm finding more cagers giving me a break. When I commute to work even when I don't have the right-of-way I find cagers actually looking at me and waving me through the intersection on a daily basis. On mountain roads they actually started using the turnouts to let me by. Then again it may be 1/4 scale mini gattling gun mounted on my left pannier ... Pat G'ville, Nv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[Douglas Dick]

It I even better tofocus on the top of the wheels, as the tops will move twice as fast as the rest of the car. You can spot movement a split second sooner, which might be enough to save your bacon. Douglas Dick Winnipeg, MB CA mailto:ddick2@... -----Original Message----- From: david gay [mailto:davidlg76@...] Sent: April 21, 2003 3:27 PM To: Jim Priest; dsn_klr650@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [DSN_klr650] Re: accidents Snip Always watch the front bumper or better yet front wheel, if they start moving you start playing defense fast. Snip

[Dan Pauley]

> When I ride the bike I experience an ever so slight > hesitation/surging motion during acceleration, Ron

Ron, Typical lean surge it sounds like. Have you removed the tamper plug and adjusted the pilot mixture screw? Where is it at now? Tune up at 5500 miles was done by? You? the shop? When were valves adjusted last? Have you read the FAQ section? Have it commited to memory? (me neither) www.bigcee.com/klr650faq.html Dan / \