Ride you're ride not his. If he looses you it's his responsibility to wait for you. As for lugging the engine you want to keep it in the power band especially when in heavy traffic or on curvy hilly roads. It helps with engine braking and rolling on out of the turns. That's my $ .02. Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T
-----Original Message----- From: Elk <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 11:03:35 To: Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!<[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] appropriate following distance? 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. -- 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.
