New to busa, hows it as a tour bike?
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Yeah, low speed city riding means no wind flow to push you back and take some of the weight off of your arms/wrists. Also, lots of braking to a stop, which means more stress on your arms/wrists. After passing through a small town with red lights or something it's always a relief to get back up to speed and let the wind hittin' your chest take the load off your wrists.
Front spacers are 3/4"... How about $45 shipped for all of it?
you should check out pashnit's site if you haven't already. he logs a ton of miles (an understatement), and has been using a busa as his bike for a few years now. There's a whole section on the mods he's done for this purpose.
www.pashnit.com
www.pashnit.com
Yep... The money from the sale will go to the Juliana Fund. with the rest of the money in my PayPal account.
Nope, no wife... to learn more about the Juliana fund.
yeah...that site's the california bible (norcal + central, at least). The 6000 miles in 8 days story he's got on there is pretty hardcore, tho he didn't do that on a busa. He's got another link on there of a guy who rode the Iron Butt 100CCC - Jacksonville to San Diego and back in 100 hours. Dude did it on a Busa, with a friend riding pillion.
check it out:
http://www.bsu.edu/web/00amleduc/mtf/50cc/reports/glass03.htm
In agreement with a lot of the other posts, here are my recommendations:
New seat - you'll see quite a few fans of Tobin's.
New wind screen - ZG double Bubble, sporttech V-Flow, take your pick.
Throttlemeister throttle lock - saves my hand and wrist from rebeling on the 200 + mile rides.
Any radio input - I can't do much of anything without music.
Checking out Pashnit's site was great advice. He actually runs a motorcycle tourguide service out in CA. You might even want to pm/email him for some specific questions and answers.
Oh yeah, wlecome aboard!
Shawn
New seat - you'll see quite a few fans of Tobin's.
New wind screen - ZG double Bubble, sporttech V-Flow, take your pick.
Throttlemeister throttle lock - saves my hand and wrist from rebeling on the 200 + mile rides.
Any radio input - I can't do much of anything without music.
Checking out Pashnit's site was great advice. He actually runs a motorcycle tourguide service out in CA. You might even want to pm/email him for some specific questions and answers.
Oh yeah, wlecome aboard!
Shawn
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Apparently some folks here don't know much about touring. They might be amazed to know there's a whole class of Sport Touring bikes and the Busa fits in quite well with them. If you only want to do a few hundred miles a day you won't even need to mod it ergo wise. 700 - 800 miles a day is simple to do and never laying a tire on an interstate. Although the Blackbird has long been the hyper-tourer of choice, I think Busa's are starting to make inroads.
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