An inquiry into Motorcycle
Motorcycle Bloggers International, a project by a bunch of motorcyclists and blogger finally launched yesterday.
The group had been working on this project covertly over the last month or so. It was great fun and excellent learning experience working with a group of so diverse and talented. (More about this in coming posts.)
If you are dropping by for the first time from MBI welcome!
The Honda Shadow 400 was the last bike I had ridden before I sold it to a friend and left for China.
The Shadow was brought used from the same shop that I brought the Marauder. I basically traded in the Marauder and got the Shadow.
Having ride 2 smaller motorcycles, the Shadow gave me a taste of what power “pull” is like. Of course compared to motorcycles of similar capacity, the Shadow is really heavy and slow.
I remembered my first time on the Shadow, the handle bar was so wide and low and it to ok a while to get use.
Nice and stable, I had no accident with it except once I slipped while waiting at the red light. Boy, was it heavy to right the Shadow. I learnt never to ride with a flat soled business shoe.
The last site design was sort of half done and I never found the time to complete it. It was hanging there and frankly quite an eyesore.
Over the weekend, I spent some time to work on a new design based on K2 and rolled out to a few of my sites.
How do you like it?
The Old
The New
My second bike is a Suzuki Marauder 125. This bike was brought brand new after getting some cash from selling an Internet business around 2000.
As with the first bike, there were many things to learn. The most important thing was run in.
What is “run in”? At that time I did not have any idea and the shop just gave me a vague clue. The idea is that a brand new motorcycle had to be “eased” into usage. The shop told me it meant no full throttle riding for the first 500-800km.
If you know how small Singapore is, you will realise that doing 500km is not an easy feat. A friend to me what he did was to ride his bike to Kuala Lumpur. That’s up the Malaysia North-South highway, a distance of about 700km. At that time I still do not have the courage to ride outside the tame traffic that is Singapore. (It was destined for the next bike)
Anyway, it was an excuse for me to take the Marauder out for a spin, riding aimlessly on the expressways from west to east, south to north.
The sound of a new engine was music to the ears. As the throttle turns, the engine purred to life like a concerted piece.
The shiny chrome parts were candies to the eyes. After looking at the rusty RXS for so many years, riding the shiny Marauder is such an uplifting experience. Just imagine floating along the road.
So much for look at motorcycles that I don’t have. Least readers start thinking that I only dream about and web surf motorcycles, let’s talk about motorcycle that I once ride and own.
The Yamaha RXS 115 was my first bike.
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