I took an awesome 37 mile ride this morning with a friend of my dad's to practice my riding. (always need practice...) Anyways, it was on some winding up and down kind of roads through a foresty/mountainy area and I was following him, but I didn't know the area. The winding- nes of the roads meant I sometimes lost sight of him and there were plenty of small off shoot roads to go on, so I didn't want to loose him, but I didn't really feel like speeding up because of possibility of sharp turns (there were plenty). I keep maybe a 3 to 4 second following distance. I didn't loose him and the ride was awesome, and the day was beautiful this morning, but if this should happen again like in a group ride or something, was this appropriate? At some points I felt like it was too far.
On a side note, on some of the steeper and longer up hills, I rode them in fifth gear and sometimes the RPM would drop and the engine would go quiet. When this happened I opened the throttle a little but it didn't change anything. It would fix itself on the downhill. Should I have downshifted to fourth? Is this normal? I ride a 2001 250cc. Newbie questions :p -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en.
