Passed my DA... so.. motorways...

[Ayup_Mi-Duck]

Whenever Ive seen people on bike come past me on the motorway, they always seem to be having a right old relaxy time of it.

I just got my first big bike: 92 zzr600 and I must admit that it was v buffeting and not at all relaxy...

If this normal or is it due to me being a fucking giant?

also, I love my bike. best 400 quid ive ever spent. VROOOM!

[Rogerborg]

A loose grip on the bars will help, as would a taller screen, but that would cost a fair proportion of the price of the bike.

£400 for what I presume was an MOT'd and running ZZR? Jammy git.
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Good buy
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[Holdawayt]

You get used to it, I remember feeling like I was being knocked around by the wind when I first took a bike on the M5.

Over time your neck will become stronger and you'll relax more so those movements from the wind become far less severe. Just remember to watch for people who haven't seen you (as always but people go into autopilot on motorways).

Tom.

[Rogerborg]

If you tense up, you'll put more inputs through the bars, which will cause the bike to weave, which will make you more tense, which will...
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[Ayup_Mi-Duck]

Thanks for the chat people. so, relax, get a taller shield, look out for people trying to kill me. sounds like a normal day.

found out (on the M1 near chesterfield) that my low fuel light doesn't work.... that was exciting.

[DrSnoosnoo]

Very not bad buy.

I don't find the ZZR bad on the motorways, but probably because I'm just used to it more than you are. Grip with knees, hold yourself up with your core.
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[MahatmaAndhi]

I'm jealous. I looked for a ZZR for ages. Couldn't find a decent one in my price range.
I used to crap my pants at 70 though. On long straights (preferably empty) I'd hit 90 and 100. Then 70 feels like a mild breeze. At any rate, you do get used to it.
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[Ayup_Mi-Duck]

It was a rather turbulent evening. Not windy but all over the shop. I'll give it another go and try to loosen up a bit.

Happy days.

[winz]

Congratulations. You'll get used to the wind in no time, either that, or just avoid the motorway, A and B roads a more fun.
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[wr6133]

You'll struggle to find a double bubble or tall screen for a D model (for a non stupid price).

You may already know but just incase you don't while many E model parts do fit, screens and fairings don't.

If you want PDF's of the manual and the Haynes PM me an email address and I'll send them over when I get a chance.

[Teflon-Mike]

Check your tyrs, check your tyre pressures; the little double-zed is't a bike, even in its day that encouraged any-one to scrub rubber bead to bead; and squaring or shouldering in the tyre from not not beng so oft leaned will tend to make a tyre a bt squibbly, and motorways are HORRIBLE for making tyres squarer, and being rutted by the trucks; put the two together, and you have a recipe for a bike that will weave and wander and if you have a less confident or clued up newbie in charge of the plot, 'fighting' the bike, trying to keep it in an iron grip and ride it like an Audi, doing 88 in the outer lanes, trying to cut it in the rep-mobile races.. its an recipe for disaster.

Slow down; sit it out in the truck stack at the double-nickel; the frustration of feeling like you are going slow really is just perception, cos road is so wide, you have no near hedgerows on your left, no close oncoming traffic, and speed slows down to the relative speeds between vehicles traveling around 65ish and varying varying by little more than 10-15mph either way.

Dicing with the audi-cochs in the outside lanes is stress.. which is what we tend to use motorways to avod. Better the frustration of just 'feeling' lke you aren't gong so quick as you could, whilst you ACTUALLY make pretty good progress, and usually far better progress, even sitting t out i the truck-stack at 55, where that is pretty much your 'average' that poit-to-point on the A-roads, even with higher speed blasts twixt roundabouts on the duel-carriageway, you are lucky if you ca hold an average Much over 30.

Take your time, watch the road surface, make sure tyres are pumped off and round on both axis; mind that throttle, and dial in to the 'boring'..

WARNING: very common post DAS problem, is the rate bikes will accelerate, and squiting up an 'on' ramp onto the motorway, seeing big gap to merge into, doing a shoulder heck ad running into the back of a truck, cos that gap GONE in the blink of an eye, when a bike will accelerate from 60-120 in the blink of, and gaps that look large, get very small, very VERY quick!

So take it easy; look for the 'relaxed' lack of stress, don't ride above your limits or ability; ease off, chill out, don't go looking for the shit that makes stress, and let your perceptions get dialed in....

It WILL come... but remember, fresh off DAS you may have the licence i your pocket, but your learning is only just started! So grow your confidence, don't push your luck.
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[Alpineandy]

I think these guys do a double bubble screen for your bike (not 100% certain though); https://www.skidmarx.co.uk/screen-headlight/double-bubble-screens/kawasaki/

I find the more I grip with my knees, the more my hands relax their grip. Maybe just me but try it...
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