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stinger Serious Thumper Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 848	Re: First Wreck!! Reply #15 - 08/18/10 at 02:26:47 wHATS ALL THIS FIRST WRECK STUFF!?? MAKE IT YOUR LAST WRECK
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Charon Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 1811 Harvard, NE Gender:	Re: First Wreck!! Reply #16 - 08/18/10 at 05:18:50 Unfortunately, the only way to guarantee it will be the LAST motorcycle wreck is to never ride again. And even that isn't foolproof, because you cannot guarantee someone on a motorcycle won't hit you.
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Jerry Eichenberger Serious Thumper Offline 2006 S40. OEM windshield, saddle bags, Sportster Posts: 2919 Columbus, Ohio Gender:	Re: First Wreck!! Reply #17 - 08/18/10 at 05:52:07 Bufbills - When you buy that jacket, get a very brightly colored one like yellow or red. Don't get a black or gray one. Same for your helemt if you need a new one - bright and colorful, not black. We all need to be seen as well as see others.
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Reply #18 - 08/18/10 at 07:26:16

Glad you have the opportunity to learn from your mistakes. One lesson to be learned is that you need to know how to stop in a hurry without putting your MC and yourself on the ground. Once you learn the correct technique, practice, practice, practice till it becomes second nature. Then when you come up on brake lights because you have been gathering wool, looking at your speedo, distracted by that ..., whatever, your response will be to stop NOW without dumping yourself on the ground.

Hope you heal fast and get back on your MC.

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cursal Full Member Offline Daily Savage Rider Posts: 175 Eugene, OR Gender:	Re: First Wreck!! Reply #19 - 08/18/10 at 07:26:52 wishing you a speedy recovery. Glad you walked away "okay" Safer riding and lessons learned
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Starlifter Serious Thumper Offline It only snows seven months of the year here. Posts: 3746 Eastern Michigan Gender:	Re: First Wreck!! Reply #20 - 08/18/10 at 09:38:45 ATGATT...if it's too hot for the gear, it's too hot to ride.
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Phelonius Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 1897	Re: First Wreck!! Reply #21 - 08/18/10 at 09:56:20 I guess you are lucky you didn't go through a wire fence, you might have strained yourself. Phelonius
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runwyrlph Serious Thumper Offline Semper ubi sub ubi Posts: 846 pa Gender:	Re: First Wreck!! Reply #22 - 08/18/10 at 15:44:18 Phelonius wrote on 08/18/10 at 09:56:20: I guess you are lucky you didn't go through a wire fence, you might have strained yourself. Phelonius i love good pun!
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kimchris1 Serious Thumper Offline Pink Posse Rider... Posts: 2135 Belfair, Washington Gender:	Re: First Wreck!! Reply #23 - 08/18/10 at 21:13:44 +1 in agreement with Starlifter
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james may Senior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 252 holyoke, ma Gender:	Re: First Wreck!! Reply #24 - 08/20/10 at 18:40:37 Sorry to heAr about your wreck hope you heal up soon and glad your not dead. Yeah the tank mount speedo is the only part that makes the savag not the perfect beginner bike. Otherwise low center of gravity light weight and low hp make it perfect.
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Reply #25 - 08/23/10 at 19:06:19

BuckRYCA wrote on 08/17/10 at 20:24:40:

My thinking was that a tank mounted speedo was a bad idea in terms of keeping my eyes on the road. So I put a wired bicycle computer on the handlebars. It helps keep my eyes up and forward. Also shows distance since last fill-up, max and avg speeds, and the like.

This has been my only substantial complaint about my s40 (and many other bikes,) the tank-mounted speedo is a very bad idea. Will you please go into your "bicycle computer" with a little more information. I would like to have something that does not require me to look down. thanks.

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Reply #26 - 08/23/10 at 19:25:14

qp wrote on 08/23/10 at 19:06:19:

This has been my only substantial complaint about my s40 (and many other bikes,) the tank-mounted speedo is a very bad idea. Will you please go into your "bicycle computer" with a little more information. I would like to have something that does not require me to look down. thanks.

I use a Cateye Velo 5. Trip meter to remind me to get gas, mph, clock, etc. All on the bars. Easy to set up, easy to use.

Any "bicycle computer" will work, just make sure to get one that'll handle high speeds. Some of them will only do 30 or 40 mph.

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Reply #27 - 08/23/10 at 20:06:27

I use a Sigma model (BC906, $30) that has been discontinued, but their Web site http://www.sigmasport.com/en/produkte/bikecomputer/ shows several candidates. You want a wired model. Like DrunkenDwarf says above, make sure your choice can handle high speeds.

I mounted my display on the center of the handlebars. The sender is a small metal disc, strongly magnetic, that I mounted on front brake rotor (used a small drop of glue for back-up). I used zip ties to mount the small receiver on the left front fork tube.

I calibrated it by measuring the distance travelled by the front tire in two revolutions, divided by 2, and entered that into the computer (wheel size). It's dead accurate according to the roadside you-are-going-this-fast-according-to-police-radar displays. The stock speedo reads 3-5 mph higher than this bike computer.

There's no illumination, but I rarely ride at night, so it's not an issue for me. Anyways fiddling with it to make it light up would defeat the purpose of helping keep my eyes on the road. I suppose you could rig an LED to illuminate it off the stock speedo light if it were important.

It has a speedometer, odometer, total engine hours, trip hours, trip distance, time of day, trip avg speed, max speed (mine reads 77.88 mph). When my trip distance hits 100 it's time to look for gas.

Entire installation and calibration took about an hour. If you do a Search on All Posts on this forum you'll find photos of other installs. That's how I got started. Wink

For example, http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?board=tech;action=display;num=1183653316

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