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Posted: 16:11 - 10 Apr 2017 Post subject: Riding and Fatigue! |
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So i rode the honda msx 125 from London to a place called Deal near Dover to view a zx6r which was a 160 mile return journey via A2 and M2.
When i got home i was completely knackered, so physically tired i couldnt even be arsed to cook food, straight lie down in bed.
what i have noticed is riding the 125cc on long distances to me seems more knackering than riding the big bikes as ive done the 125cc on motorways quite a few times.
its now thrown the whole dream of riding the 125cc to scotland for a good long tour completely out the window.
This was literally hard work.......well my body felt that way
Does anyone else suffer from fatigue when doing long distances on a small bike vs a big bike?
off to view a gsxr 750 srad on wednesday was gonna take the 125cc but im not ready go through with that again ____________________ Elen sila lummen omentielvo! |
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Posted: 16:36 - 10 Apr 2017 Post subject: Re: Riding and Fatigue! |
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woo wrote: | So i rode the honda msx 125 from London to a place called Deal near Dover to view a zx6r which was a 160 mile return journey via A2 and M2.
When i got home i was completely knackered, so physically tired i couldnt even be arsed to cook food, straight lie down in bed.
what i have noticed is riding the 125cc on long distances to me seems more knackering than riding the big bikes as ive done the 125cc on motorways quite a few times.
its now thrown the whole dream of riding the 125cc to scotland for a good long tour completely out the window.
This was literally hard work.......well my body felt that way
Does anyone else suffer from fatigue when doing long distances on a small bike vs a big bike?
off to view a gsxr 750 srad on wednesday was gonna take the 125cc but im not ready go through with that again |
MTFU.
https://www.bikechatforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=302995
Am I glad I did it? Very much so.
Would I do it again on a 125? Would I hell as like, unless there was no other choice.
Tbf I was filled with a sense of achievement afterwards, every other sense was completely numb for at least a week though. ____________________ There ain't no devil, there's just god when he's drunk.
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Posted: 18:21 - 10 Apr 2017 Post subject: Re: Riding and Fatigue! |
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woo wrote: | Does anyone else suffer from fatigue when doing long distances on a small bike vs a big bike? |
Yes, at speed and especially in any sort of wind. The small but constant bouncing, twitching, veering and having to pin the throttle tenses you up. You have to put more active concentration into riding it.
Which is also exactly why I favour ickle or incompetent bikes for a short commute in decent weather.
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I think the longest small bike trip I did was 140miles, Redditch to Just outside Porthmadog, with my sleeping bag and a bag full of hiking gear. That was on a KMX 200.
I like KMX's so it wouldn't have been a problem, but thin plank seat caused severe arse ache for a full day after. I'd take the man up and deal with 70mph on your shoulders and chest while sat up like a sail, and I didn't mind the 50mile tank range, or the vibes through the pegs at 8000rpm+.
In them days I actually loved getting off a bike and reeking to death of two stroke oil smoke, as well as seeing the gunge drip all over the number plate. These days it hurts my OCD having to keep cleaning the back of the bike off and wiping all the black treacle off the silencer tip. |
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Posted: 20:09 - 10 Apr 2017 Post subject: |
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I would have no problem riding a 125 to Scottyland and back.
However things like the right bars and seat would be paramount.
I use my 250 (yes I know it's not a 125) to do all my touring, and that has never been an issue.
The principal is the same, i.e. Use what power I do have to the best of my ability.
Even on my 250, I keep off the motorways.
That said, I don't think my first choice of 125 would be a little msx . ____________________ I am the sum total of my own existence, what went before makes me who I am now! |
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stevo as b4 wrote: | I think the longest small bike trip I did was 140miles, Redditch to Just outside Porthmadog, with my sleeping bag and a bag full of hiking gear. That was on a KMX 200. |
I knew a guy who had been riding on a CBT for years, just never got around to taking his tests. He was an avid rally-goer, and regularly travelled up and down the country with camping kit stowed on the back of his KMX125. He used to say that all his mates on bigger bikes got to their destination well before him, but he always got there in the end, and that's all he cared about.
Me, I don't knock people for doing long distances on small bikes (not much anyway ), but damned if I'll ever understand it! ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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Posted: 20:19 - 10 Apr 2017 Post subject: |
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Any protracted period in the saddle will be fatiguing.
I personally find long rides on the big bike much more physically and mentally fatiguing than I do on the smaller one.
I think your problem is you don't ride your big bike fast enough.
I rode from Carlisle to Braemar on my VFR last weekend, 3 1/4 hours including a stop for a shite at Old Inns services. Arrived both physically knackered and massively over-stimulated, the Spittal of Glenshee road in the dusk being something akin to playing wipeout on a big screen. Took three pints just to calm down enough to hold a conversation together.
Three hours on the Bullet would simply have me chilled out. ____________________ “Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
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Posted: 20:48 - 10 Apr 2017 Post subject: |
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stinkwheel wrote: |
I personally find long rides on the big bike much more physically and mentally fatiguing than I do on the smaller one. |
I avoid this by having lots of short breaks; just fag breaks and stretch the legs, and/or for taking snaps. It'd probably drive others to distraction, but dodgy knees and a dodgy arm makes it essential for me anyway. But at least with a big bike, you can make up some of the lost time elsewhere. A small bike...nah, would just make the day too long. And I also find it nice to be able to open the taps on that last homeward stretch. ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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I'm just trying to make out like I grew up eventually, and that I'm very metrosexual about clean/lean burn boring as fuck four stroke motors with awful snatchy EFI.
Fuck that shit!
Oh and I agree with Stinkwheel about the chilled out thing on small bikes. I remember riding 620miles in a day to France loaded up with two weeks of stuff on the ZX6R. After about 350miles it got pretty tiring every time you got onto a busy N or D road, and wanted to maintain a nice steady 70-80mph. It was literally every gap in the traffic you saw, tap it down one or two cogs and grab a handful darting in and out of lines of cars.
After that much riding it got bloody tiring and so does the concentration etc. Plodding along on an old thumper at 50mph following pick up trucks full of chickens etc would be a relief after that distance IMO. |
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Seems to me that everyone here wants to tour on anything, as long as it's absolutely the wrong thing for touring
Enfield 350? ZX6R? What's wrong with you people?!
A ZX6R isn't really a small bike, is it? Just not big enough.
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Posted: 22:55 - 10 Apr 2017 Post subject: |
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Did this below over the weekend (on the trip both days) the only thing that was exhausting was the seat slightly. The seat started getting hard and my knee was hurting. However on the Gn125 I did 1000 miles over 4 days before and it was a lot tiring because I was constantly on the throttle and messing with the gears.
Get the right bike and you can do almost any mileage. Saying that I'm still tempted to do Land's End to John o' Groats on a small bike in fancy dress for charity.
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Old Thread Alert!
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