ST1300s spotted in Northern Virginia

[daveman]

While "riding" my 4-wheeled Honda, I found myself following a blue ST1300 this afternoon, around 1:00, on Route 50, Westbound direction, in Chantilly. Was it you?

Also, on my first day out on my own ST1300, over the Memorial Day weekend, another ST1300 rider who had come up from the Carolinas for Rolling Thunder followed me into a Pep Boys parking lot in Manassas and struck up a conversation with me. The gentleman is a Vietnam vet, and he asked me if I had seen the ST1300 site online (I think he was referring to the MSN group). He had some sort of animal-pelt-looking thing on his seat. Was it you? Is your seat comfy with that thing? :eek: :D

Regards,
Dave

[Putt]

Dave,

Did ya refer him to this site???

<- South side of Wolf Creek Pass
Putt...

[daveman]

:D Dave,

Did ya refer him to this site???

<- South side of Wolf Creek Pass
Putt...
I don't think so. I had just found this site myself, and didn't remember it while we talked. Actually, he did most of the talking. He was giving me an "orientation" of my bike. :D I learned some stuff, but one thing he said confused me. He said that the ST1300 has a tendency to "countersteer." If I recall correctly from the MSF course I took when I was only 18, countersteering is actually a technique, not a trait of a motorcycle. If you quickly need to get around something on the road at speed, you push the handlebars in the direction you don't want to turn. The bike will quickly move in the opposite direction.

[Pred8tor]

Actually the technique is to push the handlebar in the direction you want to go... in other words, push the left handlebar to go left, and push the right bar to go right.

They discovered years ago that people would try to turn the bar in the direction they wanted to go, thereby causing the bike to head into the very thing the rider was trying to avoid.