2019: What did you do to/with your NC700 today?

[rippin209]

Went on a 155 mile trip from Los Banos down I-5 to a two lane back road to Hollister and back to Los Banos via 152

No pics, nothing picture worthy

 

[Canada369]

Gave my wife a moto escort to work at 8am. Planned to ride only before heat kicked in but ended up riding pretty much all day.

Picked up an exhaust wash plug that a small-town shop ordered for me. Fits stock exhaust perfectly. It's this one: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CT48GT1/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_gqumDbBSHEWYN

Continued on. When stopped for lunch, noticed plaza had our version of DMV (but not big city so no lines) so I renewed driver's license and moto plate (and health card...U.S. politicians are right that I use it instead of a credit card).

Mostly paved but some riding on sand/dirt/gravel. One road (not in photo) felt extra loose but as I turned off it a construction roller entered to tap it down.

Speaking of timing, almost made it home dry but last 40 seconds were heavy downpour! Used it as excuse to clean chain and wash bike...it had been a while.

Ended up almost an hour late meeting friends for dinner. Still, a great day on the NC.

 

[Rapturee]

I too took a ride today after getting off from work early. This time i was able to take my combat vet friend along and we rode about 150 miles together and returned to his place for supper where his GF had made a great meal for us(she's a keeper, he's lucky to have her in his life). What a great ride and a great time catching up from last year since we had seen each other. :{)


mine-2012 w/top box, Sam's is a 2013, He just recently installed a nice stainless DanMoto XG-1 Exhaust and man did it sound great today! Great ride! :{)

 

[XA4av8r]

Rode my NC to the local Tucson bike shop and sat on this Moto Guzzi V85tt ...I really like it but it $2k less expensive in San Diego. I have issues with my NC's ground clearance when riding on rocky roads. I can afford the $13K Sandy Eggo price but I'm actually liking my NC except for the lack of ground clearance.

 

[TacomaJD]

First time getting to wrench on a bike in the new shop. First thing I had to turn wrenches on in here was my car, 2 new cam positioning sensors and a cracked manifold with 2 studs already broke off in the head (2.4L Malibu). Anywho...this was much more simple and enjoyable, and man do I love the room in here. Twice the space my old 20x24 had in it. Twin filter oil change on the NC done, polished lower cowl up, let her idle in gear at 7mph on center stand and lubed the chain, have I mentioned how awesome having a center stand is?

Also been studying this highway peg business, I am not sure how it is going to work out on the track. I'm going to raise it an inch or so to ensure max clearance. First track I am taking it to has one right hander, the rest are all left turns....the side the highway peg is on. I haven't touched it on the road yet, but it's far different in those long carousel turns that seem to last forever. Just hope my expectations going in are realistic. I think it will be fun regardless though.

Talladega Gran Prix Raceway aka Little Tally. I done 3 trackdays here back in the day, it is a very fun and fairly simple track, but it is hell on left side of tires. If you do more than one day in a row here, you must flip your rear tire to keep wear even. I know general consensus says that's a no-no, but everybody that rides there does it and even the most experienced racers say it's a must. I don't care if I'm the slowest person on the track, I can't wait to be back out there and hearing those 600's and 1000's screaming by from the pits. I'd pay good money to have a fully functional left leg again. Lol

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[rippin209]

I too took a ride today after getting off from work early. This time i was able to take my combat vet friend along and we rode about 150 miles together and returned to his place for supper where his GF had made a great meal for us(she's a keeper, he's lucky to have her in his life). What a great ride and a great time catching up from last year since we had seen each other. :{)


mine-2012 w/top box, Sam's is a 2013, He just recently installed a nice stainless DanMoto XG-1 Exhaust and man did it sound great today! Great ride! :{)

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[XA4av8r]

Installed a bash plate in the air conditioned comfort of my front room LOL

 

[Rapturee]

Tacoma that looks like it would be a blast, i'd certainly try it once with my NC!! :{)

 

[TacomaJD]

Tacoma that looks like it would be a blast, i'd certainly try it once with my NC!! :{)

I can't wait man! October will be 10 years since my last track day at Barber Motorsports Park, 5 months before the big crash on the street where I lost my leg.

Just ordered a set of Dunlop Q3+ tires and a VP Fuels Surecan gas can - greatest gas can invention ever. Then all I like ordering is a pair of long gloves. Found a set of Cortech Latigo RR Air boots on ebay for $90 shipped in great shape ($180 new), still waiting on them to deliver. Almost ready to roll! Oh, and still need to pick up a Gopro to grab some sweet footage.

Been struggling with leathers. I first ordered a Cortech Latigo RR 2.0 1 piece race suit, but it didn't fit. Returned and got a larger size and it fit great everywhere except around my knees, couldn't do a squat without it killing my knees mainly on good leg. I ordered a Joe Rocket Speedmaster 5.0 2-piece suit to try before sending the Cortech back. 2-piece will probably be nicer anyways, being able to shell off the jacket in between track sessions, and probably easier getting just pants on with my leg versus fighting with a 1 piece suit all day.

Hoping to make it to little Tally on 8/9/19, if I miss that one, it will be the weekend of 9/14 before I go again.

 

[GgarryP]

Having breakfast in Waynesville NC at the Jukebox Junction halfway through my ride this morning. State highways 215, 281, 276, and part of the blue Ridge parkway. Lots of twisties, switchbacks, and very little traffic. The mountains are 10 degrees cooler but it will be hot when I get home.

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[GgarryP]

Mmmm!

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[Rapturee]

Now you're talking!! :{P

 

[Rapturee]

Rode with my buddy again today. He had invited me for a ride and mentioned that we would meet a buddy of his and head for breakfast, no prob. I get up early and leave my place at 0515 to make it up to his place, then ride to our destination to meet his buddy for breakfast. I ride an hour to his place, then he and i ride another hour to the place to meet his buddy for breakfast. We get there and i see it is a group of CMA riders, way cool. We go in and have breakfast and participate in their morning meeting. Nice to meet a bunch of good folks, diverse group of bikes and had a great time. The food was pretty good as well. Several of them were all headed out for a ride. A couple of them were headed out to ride some of the WaBDR.

Dale- There was a new CB500x there and i got to check it out. He wa all dressed up for the WaBDR, wow that was a nicely outfitted bike!

Great ride, pretty cool meeting as it was my first CMA function(i am not a member of any group, i just like to ride, most often for pie haha). i rode a total of 183 mile today and ended up getting 84.2 mpg. So i'm really not seeing any drop in mpg with the 705's on the bike, the mpg seems to be hanging in there much to my delight. :{)

Small group meeting that morning i was told. The guy in front in shorts with his GF had just been in a nasty accident last night on his way home. A young gal texting ran a red light in front of him and he t-boned her car with his bog bmw bike square in the front fender. He said it launched him from the bike, over the handle bars and her hood doing at least one flip he recalls and landing on the other side barely knicking his helmet as he landed on his back/buttocks. He said it didn't even knock the air/wind out of him. He went on to say that when he landed, he laid there for a moment thinking "i'm OK, i think i'll get up now". He stood to his feet and walked back to the scene with only minor scrapes/abrasions. Incredible damage to his beemer he said, totalling it.


Sam and i were the only two NC's there, but it was really cool to see a nicely outfitted Cb500x for the first time. Nice bike.

 

[Jeffro]

I know this doesn't compare to most scenic rides posted here but I've been fighting my way through rural rush hours like this lately. View attachment 38665 As nice as it is to have virtually vehicle-free roads to pick from many are buckled every 50 feet or downright falling apart. And I'm sorry I implied those with butthurt syndrome just need to ride more. .95kg springs and View attachment 38666 go on this weekend. I'm already looking at that seat, debating 1" or 2" fork tube extenders and more adjustable bars.

Installed those Race tech .90Kg springs and that 2015 Aprilia Tuono V4 1100 rear shock. And new fork oil. Did it the hard(headed) way by watching a few youtube videos and diving in. Taking it apart was easy. What the videos don't show is the fun (sarcasm) in putting it back together. Surprised the fork oil was a little dirty at 600mi.

 

[Doc True]

Took the Ride Like a Pro Advanced Rider Course on Sunday. It was very good and had some challenging parts to it. Well worth the money and time. It seems to be set up for cruisers and the instructor had to adjust the cones for me on almost all of the exercises. I'd like to say it was due to my skill. I reality, it was due to the more maneuverable bike.

I feel like someone beat me with a stick this morning. I can't imagine what the cruiser riders must feel like right now.

My transmissions acting weird now. It adapted to the exercises and is now holding 1st gear way too long in normal riding. It may take a day or two for it to figure out I'm no longer taking the course

 

[potter0o]

I like that they posted their information so you can practice if you want.

 

[TacomaJD]

Took the Ride Like a Pro Advanced Rider Course on Sunday. It was very good and had some challenging parts to it. Well worth the money and time. It seems to be set up for cruisers and the instructor had to adjust the cones for me on almost all of the exercises. I'd like to say it was due to my skill. I reality, it was due to the more maneuverable bike.

I feel like someone beat me with a stick this morning. I can't imagine what the cruiser riders must feel like right now.

My transmissions acting weird now. It adapted to the exercises and is now holding 1st gear way too long in normal riding. It may take a day or two for it to figure out I'm no longer taking the course

I've wondered about the computer's ability to learn shift patterns. I don't use D mode on my particular model, it's terrible. But in S mode, it seems to want to stay in 5th unless I am going really fast, so most the time I end up upshifting into 6th myself in the 60-65mph range.

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[Doc True]

I've wondered about the computer's ability to learn shift patterns. I don't use D mode on my particular model, it's terrible. But in S mode, it seems to want to stay in 5th unless I am going really fast, so most the time I end up upshifting into 6th myself in the 60-65mph range.

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Almost the entire course is done in 1st. I just used manual mode for the entire thing. I didn't want it to shift into 2nd while I was doing some crazy tight maneuver and cause me to dump the bike or run over the instructor. It adapted everything just from that. I thought about doing a reset, but now I'm curious how long it will take to revert to normal.

 

[670cc]

The DCT’s ability to actually learn has been long debated on past threads. There are riders who believe, and riders that don’t believe and/or found no evidence that the phenomenon exists or possibly even was claimed to exist.

Personally, if my tranny behaved abnormally today because of how I rode yesterday, I’d be annoyed. On the other hand, if I could put a DCT into a specific programming mode and teach it to shift when I want to shift, that would be a great feature. Or say if I rode in manual mode for a few days, I could teach the DCT to automatically shift when I would, instead of when D or S mode would shift. But how long would that learned behavior be retained until I’d need to teach it again? Or why then bother with auto mode at all?

This thread touches on the DCT learning topic: Any Difference Between Models
Maybe we should take any further discussion over there, if there’s a place to fit it in.

 

[Dennis M]

Turned over 30,000 miles.