The Motorcycle Sport Touring Association is a nominee for the "2012 AMA Recreational Road Riding Organizer of the Year". The winner will be announced at the 2012 AMA Championship Banquet on January 19, 2013 in Columbus Ohio.
Thanks to all those who volunteer in support of the club and all those who are members of the club.
The people at International Motorcycle Shows are giving us a $3.00 discount on a day pass at all of their shows. When you purchase tickets online use discount code: MSTA.
That's a good one Ray, what sort of feedback are you talkin about, and what does the different feedback feel like. ....
For example:
When turning, if my body position, peg weighting and throttle application are right the feeling is so light, I feel like I can take my hands off the bars and continue turning. When I don't get this light bar feel, I'm doing something wrong or at least could be doing something better. While body position and peg weighting can help achieve this feeling, a critical component is throttle control and being able to get on the throttle at the right time to stabilize the bike in preparation for applying more throttle to help lift the bike from leaned over turning, instead of or in addition to using bar pressure to lift the bike. The same goes for dropping the throttle a bit to help countersteering the bike initiate a turn.
The less bar pressure I need or feel when turning or changing directions the better. The less front end compression or extension I feel when turning or changing directions the better. The less I need to change or adjust my line in a turn or series of turns the better. Nothing should ever feel abrupt, frightening, or surprising. The objective is to ride the bike and feel totally stable on it just sitting on it while riding it. Whenever you have to grip or hold onto the bike to feel stable on the bike, there is something you could be doing better. Having to grab or hold on to a bike to feel stable is a by product of a rider having done something to make the bike unstable.
Over time I've become much more sensitive to how well or how poorly I'm riding and what works and doesn't work as well when riding. Riding well is a combination of a myriad of inputs and decisions and increasingly I think it is critical to develop more and more sensitivity to the feedback you get from the bike, your body, your mind, where you end up in a lane and what happens to you while riding to become a better rider and to ride well. When you pay attention to the feedback, the signs are everywhere of your successes and failures and paying attention to the feedback is essential to raising your riding standards and the level of your riding.
I notice more often when I have to exert extra mental or physical effort to make it do what I want/need it to do, versus when it does what I want/need effortlessly, when I do not end up on the roadway where I wanted to end up, when I fail to correctly anticipate something or fail to evaluate a situation as well as I could have. While many think the feedback they need to pay the most attention to is how fast they can go through a section of twisting road, for me, what is more important is how effortlessly and in control I can go through a section of twisting road. Figuring out how to exert less effort and achieve greater control while riding is what helps me ride better. Speed comes as a byproduct.
Once you learn to pay attention to the feedback, learning to be a good rider becomes easier as long as every time you get bad feedback, you use the feedback to figure out how to do things better.
With a little luck it will be on the road by Tuesday. Surprisingly enough DVS said that a title would be issued for it. I'll be interested to see if the title could be used to street title in it another state.
MCN Posted the following earlier today and then pulled it down.
Honda insiders have revealed the firm will on Friday announce the plan to put a road-going version of the MotoGP V4 RC213V into production for 2014 as it tries to give a massive boost of excitement to the Honda brand.
Honda boss Takanobu Ito will make the announcement on Friday this week as part of a bigger speech outlining the future of the firm with the RC213V production bike being presented as a halo bike which will be hugely expensive and strictly limited in numbers.
This is definitely not a replacement for the CBR1000RR Fireblade and will be more akin to the £40,000 Ducati Desmosedici RR which sold out and was built in bigger numbers than first planned despite a massive price tag.
The rumours of a road-going Honda based on a MotoGP bike have been doing the rounds since the World Championship ditched 500cc two-strokes in favour of four-stroke 1000cc machines in 2003.
It's known Honda was very close to putting a 1000cc V5 into production in 2006 but this never happened for reasons known only to Honda.
It now appears Honda is ready to make the leap and in part this may be helped by the firm's decision to make a run of customer specification engines for the Claiming Rule Teams (CRT) in 2013 which will change the way the engines are made.
There are no official details at the moment and we will have to wait for the official speech to be given in Tokyo on Friday but it’s understood Ito will make reference to some of the greatest Hondas of the past such as the RC30 when he makes his address.
A Honda insider said: "This has been talked about for a while now within Honda but there is now the firm intention to put a bike derived from the MotoGP bike into production so we can show the kind of engineering, passion and excitement Honda has become known for.”
A full MCN investigation into this story will be in the September 26 issue on sale next week along with updates online as soon as there is official word from Honda.
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