First ride on my 1993 ST1100

[DrTodd93]

Welcome Thanks for the description of the ride home with the newly purchased ST1100, but I am wondering about your lack of clothing or lack of complementary clothing I often ride long day trips of 500 - 700 kilometers and regardless of the bike and seat, my butt gets tired which results in standing up riding occasionally at the end of the day. If you are a top athlete, which I am not, you may not have this problem. Good luck with the ST

Yes, I should have taken a sweatshirt but my carry-on bag was my helmut. TSA requires helmets to be in a carryon. It took up the whole bag. The plan was to get there early, which I did at 9am. Left the dealership at 1030 am. It was already 92 and rose to 98. It's only an 8 hr drive so I should have gotten home at 630 which still was in the mid 80's. The three hour rush hour in Dallas really took it's toll on time and me. Live and learn, right. Lol

 

[irunamok]

Boston driving! Whew!!!

OMG yes…we went to NH via Logan and what an extraordinary Charlie Foxtrot is the way out of Logan, north on he supposedly highway 1 where it was like bumper cars at the town fare. I SO much regretted turning down the extra insurance on rental car.

 

[Pop-Pop]

OMG yes…we went to NH via Logan and what an extraordinary Charlie Foxtrot is the way out of Logan, north on he supposedly highway 1 where it was like bumper cars at the town fare. I SO much regretted turning down the extra insurance on rental car.

Anything on the east coast, all the way up to maine is a traffic jamb
I relearned how to ride there on a bike larger than anything i had ever ridden. Not cool!

 

[Al st1100]

I bit off the big one, I live in Tulsa, Ok and purchased a 93 ST1100 from a motorcycle shop in Houston. I flew down two days ago and began the 507 mile ride back to Tulsa. I hit the Houston lunch traffic which was bumper to bumper for about 4 miles. Once I got out of Houston, I was headed for Dallas. The bike performed great while at highway speeds but it was idling between 2200 and 3000rpms at that point. The owner of the bike was the motorcycles owner and had upgraded to the ST1300. I wanted the 94 and older because I got killer insurance from Haggerty because it was 30 yrs old or more. By the time I got to Dallas, of course I hit rush hour traffic. The temp gauge kept climbing which I thought was a big problem. Now, I know that as long as it stays under 3/4 on the gauge, it's probably not a problem. 21 miles of bumper to bumper traffic, I was looking to go city roads to mitigate the rising temp of the bike and the high idle. My rear was already sooooo sore, the temperature was in the 90's and I'm just trying to get home alive. I finally got through Dallas 3 hours later and was hot and exhausted. The good part was I was getting 45mpg. The bad part was I had 270 miles to get home. I found that if I stopped every 1.5-2 hrs for about 15 min, empty the bladder and walk around for a few, I was ready for a bit more punishment. The stock seat seemed comfy for about 30 min, then the discomfort came. My thighs where they hit the seat was super uncomfortable. I weathered on. I thought I would be home before dark. Lol. I didn't have a jacket, just a long sleeve T-shirt. I got really cold for the last three hours. When I hit Oklahoma, the idle problem had resolved itself. My guess was the bike had been sitting in their showroom for a year and possibly the old gas had gelatinized on the carb slides. Maybe the heat of the day with new gas through the carbs melted the good from the sticking slides at idle. My phone had died so my family didn't know what was going on. I finally made it home at 1130pm, some 13 hours later riding and the first thing I did was to go get my down coat to warm up. Anyway, it idles great now and it took me two days to get revitalized. Here are some pics at a rest stop somewhere in Texas. One full day and my new ride was in my garage. Yay.

sounds like you got antique motor vehicle insurance. The bike can not be used as a daily driver and there are other restrictions so be aware.