Wet t-shirt and even a wet old helmet works on hot days. Socked feet in shopping bags and surgical gloves for when it rains. A few tips from my postie days.
I must say that I'm struggling with any temps over mid 20's if I wear protective gear. Too many years spent indoors with the AC on climate control. I'm still impressed you can get your CB125F up any incline above 5 degrees. It must have been my 110kg weight that prevented mine from any sort of incline riding unless it was at redline in 1st 2nd or maybe 3rd gears. The 2024 MT-03 is a whole new level. With four times the power and nearly four times the torque it has no difficulty on any road inclines or even freeway/highway speeds as it easily gets up to 110KMH quite quickly. It does remind me of the CB125F but is way smoother and has a lower seat height and it's NOT heavy and carries it's weight low in the chassis. It was AU$8,349.00 but I'm a big fan of the little champ! Stay safe mate.
The Great Alpine road is definitely a must do ride. Haven’t done it on the Honda yet but on the pushy. My thumb nail is of me completing Peaks Challenge (Mt Hotham) back in 2019. Although you weren’t able to go to the northern part of it on this ride, I reason that the Harrieteville to Hotham is just spectacular! Something that might be of help to you in emergency that I learned from cycling; is that you build up a mental store of emergency actions that you can take, when in danger. After a close call, think about how you can place yourself better the next time; where can you take an escape route (even if that means going over the roof of a car!). Doing this has protected me plenty of times. The last time was in the middle of a bike race on the crit track. The rider whose wheel I was only 6 inches off, went done and before I was fully conscious of what had happened, I had already taken emergency action, avoiding the crash. A rider who was several metres behind me, whom I asked about why he rode into the down rider, breaking 6 ribs, didn’t know how to react. Talking to the club coach, he said that this was a common things with adult riders. Bottom line. In a crash you’ll always be scared, but if you train your body with muscle memory, it will go a long way to keeping you safe or at least less injured in an emergency.ride safe.
New Nail Colour or is it the Sun? You should consider something like the Givi 20l Tankbag or Saddelbags from the Gravel Series than you don´t have to think about stopping and pull an waterprooved sheet over the bag. Makes your life a bit easier. And don´t Panic. Thats the worst thing to do and there is no reason to Panic
Yeah at least I was able to recognise it in myself in the moment, hence why I pulled over to collect my wits. I do want a good set of saddlebags for this bike, but unless I start earning more than about $40 a month on RUclips it's probably going to have to wait lol
should have been titled "Rain turns man into blubbering mess!"
Yeah right lol
Something about not being able to see properly set me right off
Wet t-shirt and even a wet old helmet works on hot days. Socked feet in shopping bags and surgical gloves for when it rains.
A few tips from my postie days.
I must say that I'm struggling with any temps over mid 20's if I wear protective gear. Too many years spent indoors with the AC on climate control. I'm still impressed you can get your CB125F up any incline above 5 degrees. It must have been my 110kg weight that prevented mine from any sort of incline riding unless it was at redline in 1st 2nd or maybe 3rd gears. The 2024 MT-03 is a whole new level. With four times the power and nearly four times the torque it has no difficulty on any road inclines or even freeway/highway speeds as it easily gets up to 110KMH quite quickly. It does remind me of the CB125F but is way smoother and has a lower seat height and it's NOT heavy and carries it's weight low in the chassis. It was AU$8,349.00 but I'm a big fan of the little champ! Stay safe mate.
Yeah the CB125 usually manages at least 75km/h up the steepest hills. but I've got to be wringing its neck out in 3rd to manage that.
@@NicksBikes I can identify with that! It's why I exchanged that for 110km/h up the steepest hills. Stay safe mate.
The Great Alpine road is definitely a must do ride. Haven’t done it on the Honda yet but on the pushy. My thumb nail is of me completing Peaks Challenge (Mt Hotham) back in 2019. Although you weren’t able to go to the northern part of it on this ride, I reason that the Harrieteville to Hotham is just spectacular!
Something that might be of help to you in emergency that I learned from cycling; is that you build up a mental store of emergency actions that you can take, when in danger. After a close call, think about how you can place yourself better the next time; where can you take an escape route (even if that means going over the roof of a car!). Doing this has protected me plenty of times. The last time was in the middle of a bike race on the crit track. The rider whose wheel I was only 6 inches off, went done and before I was fully conscious of what had happened, I had already taken emergency action, avoiding the crash. A rider who was several metres behind me, whom I asked about why he rode into the down rider, breaking 6 ribs, didn’t know how to react. Talking to the club coach, he said that this was a common things with adult riders. Bottom line. In a crash you’ll always be scared, but if you train your body with muscle memory, it will go a long way to keeping you safe or at least less injured in an emergency.ride safe.
New Nail Colour or is it the Sun? You should consider something like the Givi 20l Tankbag or Saddelbags from the Gravel Series than you don´t have to think about stopping and pull an waterprooved sheet over the bag. Makes your life a bit easier. And don´t Panic. Thats the worst thing to do and there is no reason to Panic
Yeah at least I was able to recognise it in myself in the moment, hence why I pulled over to collect my wits. I do want a good set of saddlebags for this bike, but unless I start earning more than about $40 a month on RUclips it's probably going to have to wait lol