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LANCER Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Savage Beast Performance Parts Posts: 10604 Oklahoma Gender:	Re: Wandering all over the road Reply #15 - 08/29/05 at 16:51:35 I have noticed the very same problem, as a matter of fact I have had a 5 mile round trip to the store take as much as 2 hours. I just seems that the roads morphs somewhere between the house and the store.
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Ed L. Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline "We All go a Little Crazy Sometimes" Norman Bates Posts: 2808 Sunny Florida Gender:	Re: Wandering all over the road Reply #16 - 08/29/05 at 17:51:34 Strange, I've the same problem with wandering, went out for a gallon of milk at the local store (maybe 2 miles away) ended up riding almost 25 miles. The Superbrace doesn't seem to help at all in fact it makes the bike wander down the back roads looking for twisties.
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threezukes Ex Member	Re: Wandering all over the road Reply #17 - 08/30/05 at 05:49:44 Ed L. wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:08: Strange, I've the same problem with wandering, went out for a gallon of milk at the local store At least you make it to the store..sometimes I don't even get there.
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Paladin. Serious Thumper Offline Hamster Posts: 4929 Sunny Southern California Gender:	Re: Wandering all over the road Reply #18 - 08/03/10 at 21:07:37 An old message for our newer members to explain as to why our bikes has trouble to take hours to travel 5 miles.
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gerald.hughes Serious Thumper ModSquad Offline FSO Posts: 1100 Tucson, Az Gender:	Re: Wandering all over the road Reply #19 - 08/03/10 at 22:02:18 I believe that it was Einstein who first pointed out to us that a straight line was not the shortest distance between two points, as space was curved. I know that I personally always try to find lots of curves to get from point A to point B. Sometimes, it seems to take all day.
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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28763 L.A. California Gender:	Re: Wandering all over the road Reply #20 - 08/03/10 at 22:24:56 I shall name this paladin's theory of anti-reality. The number of curves between two points varies with the square of sun light.
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wolfmrp Senior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 259 Portland Or	Re: Wandering all over the road Reply #21 - 08/03/10 at 22:54:51 Mine has the same issue. Last weekend I went out for a morning cup of coffee and before I new it I was drinking it on the Oregon coast. It was a good 80 miles out of the way. I sure am glad I have the 3.5 gal tank.
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Re: Wandering all over the road
Reply #22 - 08/04/10 at 03:36:46

I can testify that it's not limited to Savages either. Fired up the C50 to run down to CycleGear to check out if they had any good deals. Got there in 1/2 hour or so, stopping for gas. On the return trip however, I seem to have misplaced my sense of direction, since it took me 1 1/2 hours or so to get home. Good thing I'd stopped for gas! Cheesy

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Re: Wandering all over the road
Reply #23 - 08/04/10 at 07:07:26

This is part of the problem with motorcyces. I explained why I should have one & pointed out the great MPG as part of the reason for it & that was a well made & well received point, when I explained it to the wife. I had no idea I would need to factor in the cost of their incessant wandering. Ive found mine will turn to avoid an intersection that looks like we might get caught at the light & will even go down streets its never been on, apparently hunting some curves to play in. It has sniffed out some really nice little roads around here that seem to need gone down, no matter how out of the way theyare.

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Re: Wandering all over the road
Reply #24 - 08/04/10 at 07:27:00

Yep, I've found my bike don't save a bit of fuel. And curves,.....thats all there is here. And along w/ the curves, come the Deer,(4 legs) 3 bike/Deer wrecks last week, no dead riders, but 1 dead Deer. I always forget about them, till I remember, then I slow down around the curves,....but only till I forget again. Not a matter of "if", its a matter of "when",....not a good feeling.

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Phelonius Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 1897	Re: Wandering all over the road Reply #25 - 08/04/10 at 09:21:37 Drink less booze before riding. That does it for me. Phelonius
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RC Junior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 83 Quartz Hill Ca. Gender:	Re: Wandering all over the road Reply #26 - 08/04/10 at 21:42:13 People drive their cars places they have to go. They think of places to ride their motorcycles. I have four and most times I think of somewhere to go it seems I must take my S40 and leave the others at home.
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Wolfman Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 664 SW Missouri Gender:	Re: Wandering all over the road Reply #27 - 08/04/10 at 22:58:02 Wandering? Must be Yankee Lingo for LOST!...lol Only bad thing about bikes compared to horses. Turn a horse loose and he will find his way home. My lil iron horse just aint got no sense of direction and just kinda picks a direction and goes. Gets hard to pull in the reins and point it towards home sometimes.
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