Son down (mildly)

Ah, ok, and that could also be down to how heavy your right foot is
(and what else it's used to)?

Like when I get out of my old 218SD Rover and get into Dad's Meriva
I'm initially pulling up way too sharply!

With the RT, stick 150kg of trailer on the back and it becomes less
adequate (safe but much harder work) and certainly in comparison to
the same thing on the back of her XV750.

All the best ..

T i m


p.s. Quite looking forward to getting the CB 'Two Fifty' back on the
road .. not ridden something that feels 'revvy' for a while (or ever
really).

 

To be fair, I've never towed a trailer on a solo motorcycle. I imagine BMW
intended the back brake to be nicely balanced for operation with loads
ranging from rider only up to rider and pillion plus luggage. Adding 150kg
is effectively the same as two more pillions - no wonder the poor thing is
struggling.

 

Hmm. So, would you describe all the other bikes that have better[1]
rear brakes as 'unbalanced'?

Well, the case with the trailer maybe yes (other than the XV750
dealing with it ok) but it's still not 'good' without the trailer
(from my pov anyway).

Anyroadup, as I mentioned previously the 900 Divvy I borrowed from the
local bike shop for a week (with the idea of one replacing the RT and
also had a very good rear brake) went back hardly ridden because it
had no character, so the old girl stays. ;-)

All the best ..

T i m

 

Normally, you don't need a monstrously powerful rear brake, because you'll
either be using the front on its own, or both brakes together. Also, it's a
single-leading-shoe drum. If it was TLS, it would be great going forward,
and almost entirely ineffective going backwards. It's a compromise. It
wasn't designed to stop a trailer.

Cruisers tend to see harder rear brake use anyway. On my Drifter, I got
through rear pads faster than fronts. Do you actually use your fronts much
on the RT, or is there a recommended trailer technique?

The Divvy has a disc rear.

 

With ABS if you're coming down a slippery slope, you've got No brakes
unless you can switch it off like BMW.
I've just gotten a car with ABS which I hate, It'll sail thru an
intersection, refusing traction rather than trying to find some, we
have serious winter here(Canada).
I feel safer and stop better in my car that doesn't have ABS.
bg

 

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 06:31:27 -0800 (PST), in

What rubbish. Perhaps you'd care to explain why you believe that you
have 'No brakes'?

You're clearly not a very good driver then. If the ABS isn't going to
be able to stop you, you're not going to be able to stop it manually
either, so you need a better understanding of available grip and
appropriate speeds.

I drive in snowy conditions for much of the winter (here in
Switzerland, as well as several weeks in BC/Alberta in recent years)
and can state most assuredly that ABS works very well indeed on
slippery surfaces, especially when combined with 4wd and traction
control.

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I can only speak from my experience this winter, deep snow is OK
there's traction, but on Slush there's none and the ABS vehicle just
won't stop till it's ready.
Same if you're off road coming down a muddy slope.

Without ABS I can feel or look for traction .
If I'm on a road that's Iced up (Black Ice), in my non ABS car I can
drive with one side of the car on the Ice and put 2 wheels in the snow
on the shoulder and get some traction, but that doesn't happen with my
ABS Honda, I have to get All wheels in the snow to stop.

I haven't had any issues with winter driving in Canada in 30 years,
until this ABS equiped rig. Ther's a reason the BMW Bike have an ABS
off-switch for coming donw hills when off-road etc.
Bg

 

Canada, like America without any of the benefits and added French cunts.

 

Absolutely. No (or not too many) americans, for a start. And they
actually have a clue about food as well.

Not sure what's wrong wiv 'em anyway, TBH.

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But the real frogs regard them as inferior in a big way. I remember
being in a (real) French restaurant in Montreal one time, where the
waiter assumed from my accent (speaking French to him, of course) that
I was local, and gave me the snooty treatment the North Americans seem
to think is typical of the French. Then he told me the wine I'd
ordered was unavailable and recommended another one of a similar type,
only to be utterly flabbergasted when I said I'd ridden through the
village it came from on my way to or from one of our ukrm trips.

Once he found I actually lived here, his manner changed completely
into a much more friendly mode, much to the annoyance of other
Canadians sitting nearby

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I've spent more time there and have more rellies than you I assume then!

Backwards socialist pseudo bhal cunts, every last elk of them, well until it
comes to forest destruction.

BC is breathtakingly gorgeous though.

 

Well at least the Eskimos slap them down when they get stroppy.

 

That's actually rather good ;o)

 

That got a chuckle out of me.
It's out of date though. The English became good chefs and shit policemen.

 

for english values of good.

sir jamie, you are hereby accused of using taxpayers' money to plug your
crappy foodmixing product during primetime when the slobbering tv-slaves
are not yet completely binge-plastered and may be able to locate their
ripoff credit cards. how do you plead?

 

Who?
Rick Stein is more my kind of food.

 

Indeed BC is wonderful. I can vouch for the Yukon too.

 

I thought an R90 used Bings from Germany.

 

The S used gurt great 36mm pumper Dell' Ortos. Same as on the early
Guzzi Le Mans.

 

Heh, I'm Canuck, and I like that
Bg