Rain rain, go away
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With work and everything I only had a chance to take the bike out for a brief five mile ride today. But I do have to say - I'm really starting to feel more at home on it and more comfortable with turning, shifting, and moving around generally. I keep downshifting to first only at stops (i.e. not letting the clutch back out to shift into it), but I'm not sure how to do better with that...
I also tried to see if I could fit the Ninja in the little gated area next to my apartment. Suffice to say: it was a bad (okay, really bad) idea. Really easy to get it in there (angled through a gate and then down two steps), very difficult to get it out (angled awkwardly through a gate and then
up two steps). Lots of turns in a very short space to get it pointed in the right direction, a lot of pushing to get her out, and an accidental short burnout or two when I didn't have traction and tried to use the bike's power (because I'm too weak
). But after a lot of struggling I finally got her out without a scratch
. Yup, not trying that again...
A question for you guys though: after I got her out, I went to the end of the alley and turned around. When I was riding there the bike sounded very...dry? The sound was rather higher pitched and "pingy." Could that have to do with the incline?