Sports: Re: [DucatiST] Re: Crosswinds

Wind on any motorcycle is a bit more noticeable than when driving the loaded log truck.:)
Round here we get some high winds and I've been out in them quite frequently. Wind gust to 40+ mph are a bit unsettling, especially the cross wind variety. When they gust like that as a cross wind they'll move the bike about 3 feet over before you can react. So don't ride on the yellow line.;) A steady cross wind has never been much of a bother. That's what we'd have in southeast NC where I grew up and I really don't remember thinking about the
wind back there when I started riding.

Robert McNabb
Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia
ST4 1999 RED

--- On Sun, 10/30/11, Rolland Waters <theshadking@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Rolland Waters <theshadking@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [DucatiST] Re: Crosswinds
To: st2_owners@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, October 30, 2011, 1:00 AM

On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Willie <wwahl@weathergod.com> wrote:

Urs and I have taken the A-10 from Nice toward Genoa a couple of times. There are a lot of tunnels along this route. So when you blast out of a tunnel at 245 kilometers per hour on your ST-4s and hit the high wind coming off the Mediterranean you get big eyeballs. On the plus side, we hit a tail wind once going from the Boise area towards Salt Lake City that gave us 60 MPG at 90+ MPH. Yes, wind is a problem (on any motorcycle).

Right, but not like it is on a KLR. There's no way a ST is the kind of scary that a KLR is.