The Macbeth Ride report

We arose at 07:30 on Saturday, and after the usual amount of faffing
around finally got on the road around 8:45. Minx decided that she
needed a tinted visor for her new RXT flip-face helmet, so we had a
stopover to find one (had to visit 2 shops before we got it).

Travelled via Bungendore and Tarago to Goulburn, fuelled up at the
southern end (near the relocated Big Ugly Sheep) and warmed up at the
bakery across the road. Cold and windy.

Realised that we were running a tad late, so zipped off to Robertson,
had another brief rest, then down Macquarie Pass. Found our
accommodations after a brief search (my brother-in-law's mother's
house), made a very rapid change of clothes, jumped in her car and off
to the theatre.

After finding a car park and getting into the theatre, we picked up
our tickets and got to the door 30 seconds after "lock-out" time.
They let us into the show about 15 minutes later.

The show was quite good, very much an eye-opener for me because I'd
never seen or read Macbeth before and I'd had this impression of him
as a tragic, heroic figure. That seems to not be the case! ;-)

Headed for home via Berry and Kangaroo Valley at about 09:30 on
Sunday, even windier than Saturday. At least it wasn't as cold as the
Wintersun trip, in addition to the wind. The very tight twisty road
from Berry to KV would have been more fun on a GPX250, my GPZ900
handles more like a bulk coal carrier than a speedboat.

When we turned south at Goulburn with the hefty crosswind blowing from
right-to-left I suddenly started getting weird fuel starvation
problems - it seems that if I have the bike tilted to the right (i.e.
compensating for the crosswind) for more than about 10 seconds at a
time one or more of the carbies start to run out of fuel! I've never
had anything like that happen before, I'll have to investigate it
further.

Minx's GT650R performed impeccably, as you'd expect from a bike with
under 3,000km on the clock.

Arrived home at about 15:45. Back to work tomorrow, our 2-week
vacation is now over.

Bugger!


BTH

 

Yeah, how bad was it today!!! (And how many bazillions of bikes were out
there?)

Welcome back to the Real World (erk!)

betty

 

Sounds like a good time was had 'cept for waitnig out the front of the
theatre .. bummer about back to work tho

 

Well, we met a young bloke at the pub at KV who was also riding a
GT650R. Minx tried to have a chat with him about their bikes, but he
didn't want to talk - I reckon his mates (on an assortment of 1990s
Jap sports bikes) must have been giving him stick about riding a
"Girl's Bike" and he felt that they'd been vindicated! ;-)

It's running very well, although the battery went flat the other day
due to it's being parked for the winter.

It's not even 10 in the morning, mate! Are you insinuating that I'm
an alcomaholic?


BTH

 

The only bad thing I've heard about the 650 'Sungs is that the front
brakes aren't up to scratch...

 

Whoever told you that needs to take a ride on something like an '85
GPZ900R, whose brakes were considered state-of-the-art at the time.
Minx's GT650R will pull stoppies with two-finger pressure, just how
much brake do you need?


BTH

 

Hey, that's what the AMCN blokes said, and aren't they right about
everything?

 

Clearly you're trolling me, but in my opinion they're a bunch of
spoilt, whiny little fuckers who get to thrash the latest brand-new
motorbikes for free and come up with nonsensical bullshit about the
bikes whose manufacturers didn't also give them a large brown envelope
stuffed with fifties.

The fact is, there really hasn't been a particularly bad bike[1]
produced in well over a decade, so all that's left to complain about
is essentially quibbles.


BTH
[1] On the level of a Honda CX500A, any Ural, Kawasaki z750 Twin,
Yamaha XS500, Harley WLA, Norph[2]...
[2] The bike you make out of what's left-over when you've just built a
Triton.

 

You obviously never got to ride a Pegaso. Oy....

 

I'll refer that one to Glitch - he seemed to have quite a liking for
them.


BTH

 

Like the pulse rate of the ABS that rarely ever cuts in?

Theo

 

There was me thinking that the whole point of ABS was that it rarely
kicked in!


BTH

 

Stop quibbling!

Theo

 

[applause]

 

I've owned one of them and *I* thought it was OK, but when you're
crafting a post referring in some way to "worst motorcycle ever" and
playing on audience responses, you just *have* to mention the CX500!

You'll note that I confined my implied derision to the CX500A, not the
CX500B (twin front disk model), CX500T, or CX650. ;-)


BTH

 

*bows*


BTH
(Been wanting to use that joke for ages!)

 

Rebuild any bike enough times and eventually you'll have enough left
over bits to build another one.

 

Ah yes, the CX500T ... interesting habit of kicking in the turbo as you
cranked it out of a corner, resulting the front wheel coming up, and an
absence of steering ...

Cheers
Goaty (who wishes he still had his CX500A)
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surely once you crack the throttle open you're already steering out of
the corner and don't need any more input for a while... Doohan, Rossi,
and Bayliss among others don't mind the odd mid-corner wheelie on a
cooldown lap.

Nev..
'04 CBR1100XX