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Has anyone ever experienced sitting in extreme slow moving traffic for long periods of time? Litterally moving only feet, if not inches at a time.
I had this unfortunate opportunity 2 weeks, while making a trip from Dayton to Columbus on my newly purchased GS1100. After enjoy about an hour of teriffic riding on I-70. I was given the wrong directions to get to the Iron Pony Motorcycle Accessories store. I had to spend more time on a surface street than on the interstate as a result of afternoon traffic. Nothing but stop n go. After about 35-40 minutes of this slow creepiing, all of a sudden the bike kept wanting to lunge forward and I realized I was losing my clutch. What a freightening first time experience this was for me. After some repeated attempts to restart the bike, it was to no avail because the bike would not disengage and was on a slight up-hill grade when it stopped.
Luckily I was able to roll it off onto a side street and park it. After about 20 minutes of rest and cooling (for both me and the bike), I was able to get it rolling and devised another route to my destination.
My lesson learned from this: If it ever happens that I am in that situation again, I will make use of neutral gear much more often than I did, or consider more aggressive jumping spaces in line where ever possible.
Any thoughts on this? Have you ever had it happen?
I had this unfortunate opportunity 2 weeks, while making a trip from Dayton to Columbus on my newly purchased GS1100. After enjoy about an hour of teriffic riding on I-70. I was given the wrong directions to get to the Iron Pony Motorcycle Accessories store. I had to spend more time on a surface street than on the interstate as a result of afternoon traffic. Nothing but stop n go. After about 35-40 minutes of this slow creepiing, all of a sudden the bike kept wanting to lunge forward and I realized I was losing my clutch. What a freightening first time experience this was for me. After some repeated attempts to restart the bike, it was to no avail because the bike would not disengage and was on a slight up-hill grade when it stopped.
Luckily I was able to roll it off onto a side street and park it. After about 20 minutes of rest and cooling (for both me and the bike), I was able to get it rolling and devised another route to my destination.My lesson learned from this: If it ever happens that I am in that situation again, I will make use of neutral gear much more often than I did, or consider more aggressive jumping spaces in line where ever possible.
Any thoughts on this? Have you ever had it happen?
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