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[Pax]

Kit, that's beautiful!

Hey biker chicks, one of you fast women should win the raffle for this bike:

http://www.motosafetycrew.com/motosa...m/Welcome.html

That is an AWESOME bike!! Although my knees would have liked it 20 years ago, now, not so much.

[Pax]

While we were at the gym this morning I hopped onto an upright exercise bike (first time I've pedaled in over a year), went a slow and easy quarter mile... it felt amazing!!!!

[Trek420]

That is an AWESOME bike!! Although my knees would have liked it 20 years ago, now, not so much.

How could a motorcycle be hard on your knees? You're not pedaling.

[Pax]

How could a motorcycle be hard on your knees? You're not pedaling.

The footpegs on a true sportbike are tucked up very high so you scrape them less on tight corners, you sit the bike like a jockey with a long forward lean, very hard on the knees and shoulders/wrists.

I loved them when I was young, now the knees can't take that bend for more than a few minutes.

[Fredwina]

well, gals, I survived fort Lame. (more like I survived O'Hare airport)
Now to rewrite all my geographical details
I made aside trip to the Bike Museum in New Bremen, and bought a Vera Bradley Handbag at Fort Wayne airport.
Back to my day job tomorrow, thouigh

[OakLeaf]

How could a motorcycle be hard on your knees? You're not pedaling.

You steer by shifting your weight from side to side. So you're basically in a squat with most of your weight in your quads, and the bike dictates the alignment of your feet and knees - which changes as you go from left to right. It can be hard on iffy knees.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

You steer by shifting your weight from side to side. So you're basically in a squat with most of your weight in your quads, and the bike dictates the alignment of your feet and knees - which changes as you go from left to right. It can be hard on iffy knees.

Same as when you ride a horse- you use your knees a lot.

[spokewench]

Well, a few hours later and we have a foot plus of snow! It looks pretty. I'm being lazy though, haven't been out to shovel at all. I'll wait till later I guess. I think I'll watch tennis on TV.

[Pax]

Well, a few hours later and we have a foot plus of snow! It looks pretty. I'm being lazy though, haven't been out to shovel at all. I'll wait till later I guess. I think I'll watch tennis on TV.

I think if I saw snow at this point in the spring I would curl in a ball and weep.

[Trek420]

You steer by shifting your weight from side to side. So you're basically in a squat with most of your weight in your quads, and the bike dictates the alignment of your feet and knees - which changes as you go from left to right. It can be hard on iffy knees.

Thanks for the explanation. Is there such a thing as WSD motorcycles?

This one looks fast parked by the farm market

[OakLeaf]

Is there such a thing as WSD motorcycles?

Nope, just smaller ones. Narrow in the seat area helps too (single and twin-cylinder), since the more your legs are bowed out, the lower you need the seat height to be, to be able to touch the ground and support your weight and part of the bike's when you come to a stop.

Some women use aftermarket shock linkages and drop the forks in their bracket (called a triple tree) to lower the seat height ... but if you don't know what you're doing, that can really mess up the handling.

Then there's my nice light and low Honda 230 - overall very friendly to a small rider - which comes from the factory with a brake lever so far from the handlebar that Beowulf would have trouble with it. Luckily I was able to track down a very nice adjustable lever on the aftermarket, but I had to scour Japanese sites, make an educated guess about model names, and telephone the US distributor, who didn't list that part number on their site, to actually get one.

[Trek420]

Somebody here needs to become the Georgina Terry of motorcycles

[Pax]

Somebody here needs to become the Georgina Terry of motorcycles

Her name would be Karen Davidson (of Harley Davidson), not as concerned with the best fit of a motorcycle for women, but very involved in getting women into the sport.

It took me about four months and a $800 to get my SO's bike to fit her.

[Xrayted]

You steer by shifting your weight from side to side. So you're basically in a squat with most of your weight in your quads, and the bike dictates the alignment of your feet and knees - which changes as you go from left to right. It can be hard on iffy knees.

Might I suggest counter steering instead of leaning for steering? If you learn this technique, you have much greater control over your bike, keep your balance centered over the midline of bike where it should be, much faster response to obstacles at speed and, together, that can save your life.


Kit's bike is a 1972 Honda CL350 Scrambler. It's a ton of fun.

Was at a radiology conference for the last 2 days. Very informative speakers. Especially the panel of women with disabilities. They are trying to educate health care workers to be able to deal with their individual needs in a caring, non-condescending manner. I was crying in much of it. Fantastic. I followed up with the lady who introduced them all. She works at my hospital. I'd love to have them present directly to our whole radiology dept sometime. We have such a high rate of pts with disabilities of all kinds that we work with and as much as we've learned, there's always more and better ways to handle situations. Sometimes, techs can get too wrapped up in getting the exam done within a certain amount of time that they forget there is a person involved.

[crazycanuck]

Awesome day at our 4hr today Funkily fun time all round ya!!!

Pics to come.