Archive for May, 2005

Crumby Weather

Friday, May 27th, 2005

It figures: You buy a new motorcycle and the weather goes to hell for a week. These past 5 days have been cold and rainy. The bike has not gone anywhere since its maiden voyage, which is rather depressing. I had been hoping to at least get 100 miles on it before the weekend started, so I would
be able to happily ride in the next stage of the engine break in period. But no joy for me… just lots of rain and wind.

Luckily for me, just hours before all the seriously bad parts of weather came, there was a break in the wind and rain and my Bike Barn arrived. I was able to somewhat hastily (and with a few errors, I need to go back and hit some steps I missed) assemble it to protect the S3. I was loosing sleep the first night it was in place, which saw some major winds, but so far so good. Glad I got it when I did.

The New Bike

Saturday, May 21st, 2005

Today I picked up my own new 2005 Speed Triple (in black). The weather was pretty gloomy looking, so I didn’t go terribly far (about 40 miles or so) on it’s maiden ride.
Although the engine has to go through it’s breaking in, so it didn’t go anywhere beyong 4K RPMs, I can sense the serious power (and lovely sound) from the 1050cc triple. There is just no comparison to the other bikes I have ridden before… all of which have been carburated twins in the 500cc (’72 Triumph Daytona, a really sweet little bike) to 1340cc (Harley Springer Softail) range. Response to the throttle (both on and off) is amazingly crisp.