Yamaha FJR1300

That bike is the dogs balls, but what is this auto gearbox shit on the 'A'
model.

Auto cars are one thing but slow moving on a bike auto box is not good. It
is very jerky and I don't like the lack of control at slow speed- there is
something not right about a bike on auto, i think you need to have control
input all the time, but then I'm just an awkward sod !

 

.....or if you have it stuck so far up someone's ass that it's never
coming out.....

;-)

 

Just a tip. You don't have to x-post to reccy all the time.

 

That's right, this is a local group for local people.

 

DOOOH! <kicks pc>

 

You arrested it first, right?

 

The FJR1300AE definitely caught my eye, not the least of which is because of
my curiously absent left hindlimb.

My current bike has a pushbutton electric shift and a standard generic
average ordinary cable-actuated clutch. I say with authority that
pushbutton shifting works just fine.

It's the FJR1300AE's computer controlled clutch that turns me off. As with
an auto trans, it will at times have a different idea of power requirements
than I do. And as a novel technology, it's bound to be horribly expensive
to repair when it breaks down.

-Scott

 

Stuck so far up they can use your laces to floss!

 

heh.

JP mentioned that his lot had tried FJR1300s as a possible replacement
for the Wobbling Wonder that is the Pan Euro 1300 ... nice enough
bikes by all accounts but a) the brakes apparently get a bit
distressed during prolonged abuse, such as on escort duty and the
like [1], and b) when a Pan Euro falls over, you replace a couple of
£5 bits of plastic (the crash bar covers); when the same thing
happens to an FJR1300, the results are apparently very pricey in the
plastics department. Most TrafPol crashes are either huge
pursuit-based lobs or, more usually, small drops while manhandling
the things around in a hurry.[/QUOTE]

GL1800. YKIMS.

 

TBH I could see that working quite well. I mean we've all seen footage
of those loons hustling GL1800s around quite nicely, and it's not like
plod need an especially fast bike, since 90% of the time they're
nicking cars, not bikes.[/QUOTE]

Inasmuch as I've been riding this old 1200 like a ****, yes, they can get
out of their own way with reasonable alacrity. If you're going to be at the
BH, you can take it out for a bifter and see what I mean.

 

Ah. Well, I'm just about to hit the road. Going forward, I'll be
leveraging counter-steering assets to generate optimised best-of-breed
routing outcomes while playing in a highly-competitive non-linear throughput
space, and managing environmental convergence strategies to minimise impact
on turnover
while accelerating progress to drive the delivery of an optimally-packaged
streamlined deployment solution which will transition positively into
non-adjacent geographies across the piece, and I'll probably be there later
this afternoon.

Sure.