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From: mojo@mp-mojo.UUCP (Mojo Jones)
Newsgroups: net.cycle
Subject: Re: Which motorcycle to purchase? (FJ1200 comments)
Message-ID: <22.UUL1.1#119@mp-mojo.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 2-Sep-86 19:57:52 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  2 19:57:52 1986
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> From: jp@faron.UUCP (Jeffrey Picciotto)
> [on the FJ1200]
>                                                           (And the seat
> on the 1200 is infinitely better than the one on the Maxxim (softer, and
> provides for moving your butt around if it gets sore)).

You don't really mean an '85 or '86 Maxim, do you?  My Maxim seat seems
a lot more of a touring saddle than the FJ or the older Maxims, and it's 
an upright seating position.  Softer?  Really?  It didn't seem that way 
when I compared.  16 hours in my Maxim-X saddle is a piece of cake.  
(Just curious, not a flame!)

>                                       more importantly, the application
> of the front brakes in a curve has very disconcerting results: the bike's
> lean angle changes a bit (up if you brake, down if you release).  It
> really sucks if you're into twisty mountain roads.

"Slow, look, lean, and roll on the throttle" -- Slow down more, accelerate 
harder, don't use the brake in the turn.  But of course you'll always have 
to brake in a turn someday, and any bike will tend upright when you apply
the brakes in a turn.

Maybe someone else can tell me if it's a gyroscopic phenomenon.  It feels
like it is.

> --jeff
> ...!linus!faron!jp
> jpicc@mitre-bedford.arpa

Mojo
... Morris Jones, MicroPro Int'l Corp., Product Development
Northern Calif. Motorcycle Safety Council, MSF Instructor
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