Keeping oneself in check
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husky385
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Keeping oneself in check
I like riding this motorcycle a lot, I mean obsessively a lot.
I have needed new tires for a while now. Apparently I don't have the willpower to stop riding.
So yesterday I removed the wheels and tires to keep from making excuses to continue to ride (like I'm just going around town).
I will be able to get new ones around the first of July.
Anyone else have to do something like this to keep themselves in check?
Kevin
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06-26-2016 02:38 PM |
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LongRanger
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Evergreen, CO
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RE: Keeping oneself in check
I have several bikes and there's always one in reserve when another one is down for service, but I would never ride on tires that worn. Your rear isn't too squared but that front is trashed! How many miles on them?
Ride more. Worry less.
‘12 BMW R1200R Classic
'15 BMW R1200RT
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06-26-2016 03:43 PM |
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The ferret
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Ohio
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RE: Keeping oneself in check
I'd have still been riding on those. They handle a little weird, harder to turn in, but they will still roll.
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2014 DLX (the pleasure horse)
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06-26-2016 04:18 PM |
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husky385
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RE: Keeping oneself in check
(06-26-2016 03:43 PM)LongRanger Wrote: I have several bikes and there's always one in reserve when another one is down for service, but I would never ride on tires that worn. Your rear isn't too squared but that front is trashed! How many miles on them?
9901 miles. Yea the front one is the one I was mostly concerned with.
Kevin
(06-26-2016 04:18 PM)The ferret Wrote: I'd have still been riding on those. They handle a little weird, harder to turn in, but they will still roll.
I wanted to keep riding on them just to keep up with you on the mileage count, but chickened out. Look out next month though.
Kevin
(This post was last modified: 06-26-2016 04:42 PM by husky385.)
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06-26-2016 04:34 PM |
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Rocky
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Nova Scotia, Canada
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RE: Keeping oneself in check
Like LongRanger, I have several bikes so I always have an alternative.
That said, if one of them needs new rubber they get it.
I don't ride on old or worn rubber.
Still rockin', rollin', and ridin' after all these years
'67 BSA 441 VR, '70 Triumph Tiger 100, '02 Honda CB900F, '06 Triumph T100 Bonneville, '14 Honda CB1100A
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06-27-2016 02:52 AM |
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SailorRider
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New York, USA
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RE: Keeping oneself in check
SailorRider
2013 Honda CB1100 Standard
2009 Felt Z35 bicycle
1986 Cape Dory 32 Double Headsail Sloop
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06-27-2016 07:31 AM |
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Ulvetanna
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RE: Keeping oneself in check
(06-27-2016 07:31 AM)SailorRider Wrote: Yes. I made myself a promise to try to hit a 10:1 ratio of miles put on the CB1100 to miles I put on my road bicycle. So far I think I am close this spring/summer, although I am not compulsive about recording/checking. Helps to stay in shape, and in many ways my bicycle riding informs my motorcycle riding and vice versa.
You can try all these metrics but in the end going by what your body and mind tell you works a lot better.
I also road cycle and was very dedicated to it for several years. Rode about 500 miles a month and lots of climbing, averages about 100 vertical feet per mile where I ride.
I found that when I took up motorcycling again the road cycling was detrimental. Such a totally different discipline. The only way I was helped is that I could smoke most traditional roadies on descents because of my racetrack experience.
Studies now show that heavy aerobic excercise sessions actually create a high level of chronic fatigue and that is just how I felt for those years of serious cycling. That's why all these pros use doping, the human body cannot endure that type of torture.
About 30 minutes of resistance training 3X week is better for you. Track days are brutal; I'm in anaerobic the whole 15 minute session, HR at about 160. That's six sessions a day. Takes a few days to recover but overall I feel a lot better than I did when I was cycling.
Just ride your motorcycle if that's what you like. Ride your bicycle if that's what you like. Do both. Watch TV. Do what you like to do.
BTW, finding excuses to ride is what we motorcyclists do. I'm always finding excuses to ride. Why own a bike otherwise?
(This post was last modified: 06-27-2016 09:01 AM by Ulvetanna.)
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06-27-2016 08:59 AM |
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SailorRider
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RE: Keeping oneself in check
(06-27-2016 08:59 AM)Ulvetanna Wrote: (06-27-2016 07:31 AM)SailorRider Wrote: Yes. I made myself a promise to try to hit a 10:1 ratio of miles put on the CB1100 to miles I put on my road bicycle. So far I think I am close this spring/summer, although I am not compulsive about recording/checking. Helps to stay in shape, and in many ways my bicycle riding informs my motorcycle riding and vice versa.
You can try all these metrics but in the end going by what your body and mind tell you works a lot better.
I also road cycle and was very dedicated to it for several years. Rode about 500 miles a month and lots of climbing, averages about 100 vertical feet per mile where I ride.
I found that when I took up motorcycling again the road cycling was detrimental. Such a totally different discipline. The only way I was helped is that I could smoke most traditional roadies on descents because of my racetrack experience.
Studies now show that heavy aerobic excercise sessions actually create a high level of chronic fatigue and that is just how I felt for those years of serious cycling. That's why all these pros use doping, the human body cannot endure that type of torture.
About 30 minutes of resistance training 3X week is better for you. Track days are brutal; I'm in anaerobic the whole 15 minute session, HR at about 160. That's six sessions a day. Takes a few days to recover but overall I feel a lot better than I did when I was cycling.
Just ride your motorcycle if that's what you like. Ride your bicycle if that's what you like. Do both. Watch TV. Do what you like to do.
BTW, finding excuses to ride is what we motorcyclists do. I'm always finding excuses to ride. Why own a bike otherwise?
I agree with your comments. Note that I do enjoy cycling quite a bit on its own, and would not ever call my level of cycling "heavy". 500 miles a month? Not me, maybe 500 miles a year, if that. Just a decent dose of cardio without overdoing it. And I do try to get resistance in as well, more important than ever as I progress through my 50s.
SailorRider
2013 Honda CB1100 Standard
2009 Felt Z35 bicycle
1986 Cape Dory 32 Double Headsail Sloop
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06-27-2016 01:51 PM |
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Ulvetanna
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RE: Keeping oneself in check
(06-27-2016 01:51 PM)SailorRider Wrote: I agree with your comments. Note that I do enjoy cycling quite a bit on its own, and would not ever call my level of cycling "heavy". 500 miles a month? Not me, maybe 500 miles a year, if that. Just a decent dose of cardio without overdoing it. And I do try to get resistance in as well, more important than ever as I progress through my 50s.
That Felt is a nice bike, 18 pounds, pretty light. No one really needs anything more than 105 groupset, either. I think I figured out you pay about a buck/milligram of weight reduction for all that Ultegra and Campy stuff. And then it really ticks off the guys who have it when some guy running SRAM Apex with the cheater climbing cogs beats them up the hill. Or down it.
I have a Ridley Orion that is very similar to your bicycle but I built it with SRAM Apex, gives you a 32T low cog in the back, awesome for spinning up the hills and easier on the old knees.
BTW put the wheels back on your motorcycle and ride it. You don't need to check yourself unless there is something else to it, like having a lot of close calls or skill issues. I rode the snot out of mine today, hardest I ever rode it, it is brilliant, 250 mile loop through national parks, etcetera, 125 miles of just nonstop twists and almost zero traffic. Bounced it off the rev limiter once.
(This post was last modified: 06-27-2016 09:20 PM by Ulvetanna.)
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06-27-2016 06:02 PM |
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