werdigo
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I have about 450 miles on my new 2014 NC700X but am a returning rider who accumulated about 20K miles back in the 1960s. I like this new Honda very much. It is quite a different bike from my 1964 Super Hawk, maybe more suited to someone my age!
But...I'm having some trouble starting off from a stop (red light, etc.) on an uphill. My technique has been just to hold the bike with the rear brake until the light changes or cross traffic is clear, and let up on the rear brake as the clutch begins to engage. Is this standard practice?
I did get into some potential trouble this afternoon, on one of the narrow, hilly, twisty back roads out in a nearby rural area. I suddenly found the little road I was on T'd into another one, with a fairly steep short uphill to the stop sign at the T. There was a barn blocking the view to the right, and the intersecting road (the top of the T) came over the brow of a hill anyway, so I couldn't see what was happening on the road I was T'ing into. Frankly, I knew I couldn't handle a stop and start on that steep hill, so I slowed down, slipped the clutch, and, hoping for the best, ran the stop sign, turning left onto the road forming the top of the T. As expected, no traffic, but I'd rather not repeat that.
Just read another thread where an experienced rider went down on a slanted uphill stop. These sound like situations best avoided if possible.
PS: 72 mpg at my second fillup.
But...I'm having some trouble starting off from a stop (red light, etc.) on an uphill. My technique has been just to hold the bike with the rear brake until the light changes or cross traffic is clear, and let up on the rear brake as the clutch begins to engage. Is this standard practice?
I did get into some potential trouble this afternoon, on one of the narrow, hilly, twisty back roads out in a nearby rural area. I suddenly found the little road I was on T'd into another one, with a fairly steep short uphill to the stop sign at the T. There was a barn blocking the view to the right, and the intersecting road (the top of the T) came over the brow of a hill anyway, so I couldn't see what was happening on the road I was T'ing into. Frankly, I knew I couldn't handle a stop and start on that steep hill, so I slowed down, slipped the clutch, and, hoping for the best, ran the stop sign, turning left onto the road forming the top of the T. As expected, no traffic, but I'd rather not repeat that.
Just read another thread where an experienced rider went down on a slanted uphill stop. These sound like situations best avoided if possible.
PS: 72 mpg at my second fillup.