anyone go for a ride today? Pics?

[gustovh]

Great write up, I enjoyed it very much.

V

[XGMAN]

Yes, great story!
I csn always tell when a person types with all their fingers!! Hahaha
Fred

[Noreg]

Yes, great story!
I csn always tell when a person types with all their fingers!! Hahaha
Fred

My wife asked me what I was typing so intensively. xD

Now I just need to get the bike washed, get a new rear tyre, and attach some of my new parts. Got the mirror dampeners, so now I can use my mirrors at high RPM. Also new clutch and brake lever (different colors annoy me endlessly). And a ton of other stuff, some related to oil leaks and some related to brake discs and some clutch springs. But most of that is winter work, can't put it out of commission just yet.

Im also going to attach paracord with tons of loops along the frame to make attachment points for the luggage stuff. It will make everything so much easier, I really lack easily accessible attachment spots.

I just love how this bike will leave me stranded at home, but when I decide to do 4000 kilometers in a week it just trots on and on and on.

[Burque73]

Wow, what an inspiring ride report, Noreg.

Cold, wet, and with moth beaten eyeballs, you still found positive things to say about the journey.

Thanks for sharing.



P.S, I'll quit complaining about living in the hot dry desert now.

[Cipher]

Yeah NOREG that was a nice writeup.
Longest I ever drove was a crazy 14 hour trip in november
my knee joints still are sore.

[ddaniels]

My advice, Mr. Noreg, is to go get a car. Motorcycle riding is fun, but that just sounded miserable to me.

[storm 64]

My advice, Mr. Noreg, is to go get a car. Motorcycle riding is fun, but that just sounded miserable to me.

Not only miserable, but very unsafe. Why press your luck like that?

[Noreg]

My advice, Mr. Noreg, is to go get a car. Motorcycle riding is fun, but that just sounded miserable to me.

I usually drive a Mercedes A180 (company car), its a fun little car, but traffic down south is truly miserable. And I didn't want to do public transport due to coronavirus. With that said I will be flying the next time (in october).

Not only miserable, but very unsafe. Why press your luck like that?

I agree I made some mistakes planning and executing the trip, but its a very useful experience. I need some extra lights and better rain clothes and the rain covers for the boots. And I am making a better luggage solution, and in the future I will bring the goggles I use for the cross helmet as a spare if the pin lock fails me.

And like with a car I wouldn't have stopped to see the northern lights. I wouldn't have made chili at the ferry dock. Although Id have a lot better lights and been a lot warmer.

But its not like I was freezing to death, it was just cold. And at those temperatures I can just stop to heat up.

Visibility was an issue though, I'd love some inspiration to solve that.

[Rich82GS750TZ]

As to visibility at night: I don't know if you can get a Truck-Lite in Norway. If you have a 7" headlamp bucket, its a easy swap out for the OEM whole headlamp lens/bulb. All of us that have them here love them. $150 in the US. I looked on Amazon UK but didn't see them. Not sure where you get stuff.

[Wingsconsin]

Add a windscreen - One that is just lower than your eye level -
Blocking the wind and offering some protection will make a world of difference - he wind will go over the top and keep some of the water off the visor
Visibility is the greatest challenge riding in the rain - adding more lights will help --
get some LED running light - add them down low - they won't over task the system --
Staying dry is great - but warm is even more so -- Ski clothing tends to be warm and dry -
The truck light is game changer if you can find something like it

[Noreg]

As to visibility at night: I don't know if you can get a Truck-Lite in Norway. If you have a 7" headlamp bucket, its a easy swap out for the OEM whole headlamp lens/bulb. All of us that have them here love them. $150 in the US. I looked on Amazon UK but didn't see them. Not sure where you get stuff.

So I keep the bucket? The aesthetics is fairly important to me. I could get it for about $300 from amazon... Or maybe I can go pick one up in the US, could use some brisket and margaritas.

Add a windscreen - One that is just lower than your eye level -
Blocking the wind and offering some protection will make a world of difference - he wind will go over the top and keep some of the water off the visor
Visibility is the greatest challenge riding in the rain - adding more lights will help --
get some LED running light - add them down low - they won't over task the system --
Staying dry is great - but warm is even more so -- Ski clothing tends to be warm and dry -
The truck light is game changer if you can find something like it

Not sure if I mind the wind all that much. Apart from side wind.

There is a lot of led options and stuff. I could throw some LEDs on the engine guard bars, or get a new headlight bucket.

I used snowboard clothes outside my riding clothes. They are decently warm if they aren't soaked.

Truck Lite was hard to source cheap, but I will look around.

[Wingsconsin]

My GS850GL with the TruckLite and 2" square aux lights mounted on the crash bars - 10W LEDs cast a lot of light forward and low

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[Rich82GS750TZ]

If you have a 7” bucket, then you can use it with the Truck-Lite.

measure your bucket


Truck-Lite uses your adjustment ring and outer Chrome ring. The light does protrude in front of the chrome ring a bit.

[Cipher]

Visibility was an issue though, I'd love some inspiration to solve that.

Surely someone makes a heated visor?
How many hours did you sleep post trip? Was your core body temp low? Were you shivering in your bed?

Your trip did not sound dangerous just really needlessly hard.
I had a dry rider rainsuit one and it was amazingly waterproof over a long haul.
Had a garish Hondaline suit that was ok but once water trickled in you got slowly soaked.

[Noreg]

Surely someone makes a heated visor?
How many hours did you sleep post trip? Was your core body temp low? Were you shivering in your bed?

Your trip did not sound dangerous just really needlessly hard.
I had a dry rider rainsuit one and it was amazingly waterproof over a long haul.
Had a garish Hondaline suit that was ok but once water trickled in you got slowly soaked.

I have not looked into it. Like heated grips, gloves, jackets and saddles I am not yet sold on the idea.

I woke up 7:45 am to go to work at 8:30, so I slept around 5 hours, maybe 4. Honestly this isn't the coldest I've been after a ride this year, it felt like surface cold, not like cold throughout. But an hour on the ferry in dry clothes and the hour before the ferry made me get my warmth back, and the warm food did wonders. The 90 minutes back home, albeit with a lot less clothes were comparatively warm (slightly warmer air temperature and no proper rain). Those temperatures isn't too hard, its uncomfortable while moving, but doesn't last. 4c or 40f and bellow is when it gets proper cold when I'm reasonably dry. Bellow 2c or 35f its pretty miserable temperature wise, in the early season I had to stop every 45 minutes - hour to get my hands warm again, and that was even with the hippo hands (who are brilliant for both rain and cold).

No shivering, I slept amazingly.

Was it a one piece suit? I think two piece is bad. Its fine for 2-3 hours and then it progressively gets wetter. And somehow mine doesn't keep my groin dry. The collar of the jacket isn't high enough. I saw a Richa suit that looked good for the rain, but annoyingly it has no reflective details. When in low visibility I want to be seen. Preferably with the same reflective details as they have on other clothes, so its more easy for drivers to recognize.

I found some Lazer ST4 EVO LED lights for like $300 each, if I can figure out how to attach them under the engine gards (so I can rest my feet on top of them) I might just get two of them. If I manage to mount them so I can easilly remove them when they aren't needed that would be even better, most of the season here it isn't dark.