Sat Nov 23 12:34:23 1996
- Message No. 182
From: marsigli@mbox.vol.it (Lorenzo Marsigli)
Subject: Re: new here...
Hi Dirk!
I am Lorenzo from Italy and I have a XRV650.
>-What are the biggest disadvantages of the AT in your opinion? It has no
> cardan ;-) OK, but what else?
The biggest disadvantage for the very beginner in my opinion is bike size
and weight, i.e. @ seems (and actually is) very big, so the first time
you'll ride it you'll feel to have some difficulty in handling, but this
will disappear with experience. I therefore must advice you to pay attention
in the first time because it is easy to lose balance when parking or moving
the bike ... and fall down, unless you are very tall!
>-I have two GIVI-cases (38l Monokey) und I would like to continue
> using them. But I fear the bike gets very wide and a bit difficult
> to handle, especially if they're fitted very far outward and
> heavy loaded.
Yes, the bike gets wide and load, but ther are no particular problems in
stability. In 1995 I spent my holidays in central Italy and I loaded two
side and one rear Nonfango 946 cases to hold the damn' everything my wife
wished to bring!. Both in highways (even driving 130-140 km/h) and in narrow
mountain roads (not offroad tracks), the loaded Thing (me, my wife and three
full cases) really had no problem, except for a longer braking space due to
overload.
>What are you waiting for? Christmas?
No, Duke, we are just waiting for our piece of cake:1997 @ Meeting!
Greetings to everybody in the XRV-list!
Lorenzo
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