Couple F4i questions after a week of riding...
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Thanks for the tips guys... some great points.
I've gotten good practice stopping quickly simply from riding highway and stopping at all yellow lights instead of accelerating ha. Haven't locked up either tires yet, might work on that tonight just so I can get use to releasing the front break when it happens.
I guess what made me think of countersteering was when turning lanes going at higher speeds. If you simply lean when you're not going around a turn... you'll get over there but perhaps not as fast as you could. With a little countersteering and leaning, it made a big difference.
Another quick question... when you ride for the first time of the day... do you typically wait for your RPM's to ideal around 1.5k? Mine will typically start around 3k and work its way down after a few minutes.
I've gotten good practice stopping quickly simply from riding highway and stopping at all yellow lights instead of accelerating ha. Haven't locked up either tires yet, might work on that tonight just so I can get use to releasing the front break when it happens.
I guess what made me think of countersteering was when turning lanes going at higher speeds. If you simply lean when you're not going around a turn... you'll get over there but perhaps not as fast as you could. With a little countersteering and leaning, it made a big difference.
Another quick question... when you ride for the first time of the day... do you typically wait for your RPM's to ideal around 1.5k? Mine will typically start around 3k and work its way down after a few minutes.
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Haha, when you've only been riding a week this is defenitely the best question to ask. lol
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NO, manual calls for 1300 +/- 100 rpm, mine is set at 1200, on a cold start it will idle at ~1400/1500 for about 3-4 mins then down to 1200.
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You will definitely have better longevity if you let your bike warm up before riding hard. For normal riding though you wouldn't have to let it completely warm up to normal idle speed. It's like any other engine. You have to run it long enough to get oil everywhere it needs it. I'd say 30 seconds to a minute is fine. You aren't going to hurt your engine by riding normally after that. Just start out slow and save the spirited riding until the engine gets around the 150 degree range.
No matter how many times I tell her not to my wife starts her car and immediately puts it in gear to drive off. I'm sure we'll be replacing that engine soon.....
dr2, don't feel bad. It took me a couple of weeks before I wound it out really good. I would merge onto the freeway in 6th gear, shifting through the gears at about 3-4k each. I was just going on the sound of the motor to shift. 4k just sounded like a good area to shift at. Now I'll usually enter the freeway in 3rd. This way I have gobs of power to manuever through traffic into my lane of choice.
No matter how many times I tell her not to my wife starts her car and immediately puts it in gear to drive off. I'm sure we'll be replacing that engine soon.....
dr2, don't feel bad. It took me a couple of weeks before I wound it out really good. I would merge onto the freeway in 6th gear, shifting through the gears at about 3-4k each. I was just going on the sound of the motor to shift. 4k just sounded like a good area to shift at. Now I'll usually enter the freeway in 3rd. This way I have gobs of power to manuever through traffic into my lane of choice.
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As long as your wife is taking it easy until the engine is warm there's nothing wrong with starting it up and putting it in gear right away. Over the years I've read more articles stating it's better to drive your car to operating temp than to let it idle. Again, this is driving it easy until warm up. Hard is another thing all together.
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As long as your wife is taking it easy until the engine is warm there's nothing wrong with starting it up and putting it in gear right away. Over the years I've read more articles stating it's better to drive your car to operating temp than to let it idle. Again, this is driving it easy until warm up. Hard is another thing all together.
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