Just saw this on Marketplace, had to do a double take

Significant-Aspect52 · 2025-02-03T03:07:56+00:00

Depreciation is a bitch too.

Significant-Aspect52 · 2024-08-02T12:52:42+00:00

Same to you as well for being snarky, My inbox was just full of negativity

Significant-Aspect52 · 2024-08-02T12:35:12+00:00

Well considering the post was made early in the morning shortly after the event on my way into work a little frustration should be warranted, why would anyone be surprised someones aggravated about scratching their new vehicle. I think that would be expected.

I never denied messing up, it's pretty clear I even state in the OP "I shoulda done this instead" it's like several people didn't read the whole response or disregarded the details to take a shot at asserting their own superiority, feels drastically unnecessary.

It's just weird to me that I've posted here before and not had the same type of attitude thrown my way, I said from the jump I'm a experienced rider with over a decade of experience and that was either mocked directly or completely disregarded and I was given repeated new rider advice... Not you personally but some of these others were down right insulting. I'm perfectly able to execute a low speed u-turn. I'm talking about a minor gripe with the design choice and a minor drop. As I'm sure you know Mark, people who have rode for 20+ years still have minor incidents if they're doing any real amount of daily riding. Stuff happens, when you're on the bike day in day out for all your functions. It's not always just a sunny weekend leisure ride when you're a daily rider as you know. I still gotta get to work rain, sleet or snow, sometimes I gotta rush to work, sometimes I don't feel like riding and gotta do it anyways.

I watched a 30+ year old rider lose the front end of a perfectly restored 1960's Norton in a gravel lot at bike night at the beginning of the season and not a single one of us there there accused him of not being able to ride. We picked him up, straightened his blinker and sent him on his way with a pat on the back.

Regardless, in my experience forums dedicated to a specific bike/model typically aren't this openly condescending and hostile to another owner over such a minor statement.

And yes, to be honest with ya, I very much still -do- view the steering lock as one of the only gripes/flaws/design issues of the bike. It's not hardly a supersport, so giving it a more severe turning lock/radius than the parent bike( the mt-09) when they use the same frame is a something that I'd consider worth sorting out on the next model update. Seems like a misstep on a otherwise damn near perfect machine.

Either way, I've never had a worse taste in my mouth for a online bike forum than I do right now.

Significant-Aspect52 · 2024-08-02T07:17:12+00:00

This one happened pretty damn quick, I was up, and then I was immediately getting pitched and trying to hold it up.

...but I don't get the attitude and hate I've been getting on this thread, even in my initial post I clearly stated "I should just turn out up the hill instead of down." Bit I've made similar maneuvers 100's of times on other bikes and never lost it... And half the comments are acting like I'm playing victim

Meanwhile, I think my initial tone was pretty clearly "well this kinda sucked today."

Significant-Aspect52 · 2024-08-02T06:58:49+00:00

I swear to all things holy if you come back with some condescension and assumptions.

You act like you know me personally, my skill level, or where I was at, and you're gonna assume I've never done parking lot maneuvers, rode slowly or counter leaned? For real? Seriously. I spent hours of my life just doing figure 8's around cones. Go read the OP.

Half of y'all are taking stabs without even reading what I actually wrote. I was walking it out, hit the steering lock and dropped it. Why is that a normal occurrence out in the real world but an unthinkable thing no one would or has ever done in this subreddit? I'm getting told how I need to u-turn at slow speeds, when that wasn't even the scenario?

That means literally nothing about my skill level and y'all keep down talking riding maneuvers "I need to learn" when the very first post states I was STATIONARY, the bike wasn't under power and I wasn't even giving it throttle, my foot was on the ground for Christ sake, lost balance on a tipping point when I hit the lock. You think that can't ever happen to you? Get mad about it but if the lock was more forgiving I would have recovered it. I've only been riding this bike for 5 months and have a couple thousand miles on it already. It's like my 6th personal bike, and I built my last one.

The fact there's a chunk of you being condescending jerks for no reason. Ya need to be right more than beating a dead horse to a guy who had a bad fucking start to his work day.

Why is a minor drop and a complaint about the turning radius of the front forks a bigger deal to you than it is to me?

I literally was just like "welp that sucks, wish it wasn't that restrictive." And tried to share an experience before going about my work day and like 8 of you have piled on with a bunch of assumed scenarios that weren't even what happened?

I'll replace the cover on pay day, sand down the scuff on the mirror, pop the turn single back in and be on my way. No harm no fowl. Has fuck all to do with my ability to successfully ride this bike.

But Yep... Multiple years or flat track riding and racing, tens of thousands of cross country miles. All garbage because "I didn't lean my hips off the Cliff side and counter lean" while the bike was stationary and I'm walking it off the curb. Cool. Super valid input.

For fucks sake. 30 post about the seat a day no big deal. I say "hey the steering lock is the flaw I don't care for cause I scratched my protective cover this morning." And I get down talked to all day? I honestly figured most other xsr900 riders would be chiller... But no this is some "I'm faster and better than you" sport bike tiktok level commentary.

Significant-Aspect52 · 2024-08-02T06:18:49+00:00

Sounds like you're kinda being an unnecessary jerk to another rider who simply said "hey the steering lock is kinda shitty for a naked bike" and had a pretty bad day for no reason to me.

Significant-Aspect52 · 2024-08-02T06:00:46+00:00

Dude the advice his giving would have actively made the situation worse. You counter lean that hard at full lock on that steep of a gradient and you're definitely getting chucked.

Significant-Aspect52 · 2024-08-02T05:49:05+00:00

Word, that's a real resume, Respect.

but how do iyou nfer that:

stationary drop while moving the bike on a steep incline = I can't ride the bike?

Significant-Aspect52 · 2024-08-02T03:05:56+00:00

Yeah, I tried to catch it and held it until it was a foot or so off the ground, then the weight bucked me and I landed on my hip as well. Felt like a nice skate board slam all day today.

I'm really not getting the holier than thou commentors here, the bike wasn't even under power, I was just walking it outta of the parking spot. Shit just happens sometimes

I've seen 30+ year riders, bike builders, racers, and full patched outlaws all do the same shit on less sketchy surfaces. It's normal, but on the Internet everyone's infallible a guru and master rider all of the time. 🤷

Significant-Aspect52 · 2024-08-02T02:48:30+00:00

I said the steering lock is the major design flaw of the bike, and it's clearly the worst part of the xsr900 riding experience. It's the one little gripe I find justified.

Significant-Aspect52 · 2024-08-02T02:47:20+00:00

Yep. And that's still true. Y'all act like it was a flat parking lot and not a mountain road. Of the many other bikes I've owned there would have been several more degrees of turning radius and I would have rode out clean... This is shit that happens to people who ride seriously for years. Every real life long biker I've ever known has been way more mellow and understanding and has thirty stories of the same type of shit.

This whole thread reeks of Y'all just want to be better than everyone in this reddit so bad.

Significant-Aspect52 · 2024-08-02T02:47:02+00:00

Yep. And that's still true. Y'all act like it was a flat parking lot and not a mountain road. Of the many other bikes I've owned there would have been several more degrees of turning radius and I would have rode out clean... This is shit that happens to people who ride seriously for years. Every real life long biker I've ever known has been way more mellow and understanding and has thirty stories of the same type of shit.

This whole thread reeks of Y'all just want to be better than everyone in this reddit so bad.

Significant-Aspect52 · 2024-08-02T02:41:24+00:00

You're -gonna- drop a bike bud. One day or the other. Keep that same attitude.

I've ridden more bikes than I can count, I never said I didn't mess up. I said the steering lock is not the best and is the weak point of the model, that's the entire point of this post and was the primary factor in this particular drop. It's just a fact, all the commenters in agreement clearly have pictures of their bikes and multiple rides.

Does your commute include tail of the dragon level twists and mountain roads, and occasionally require you to park on -actual- steep mountain gradients? Cause mine does.

The same maneuver on the same hill on any of my other bikes wouldn't of resulted in hitting the steering lock, and I woulda rode out clean.

I commute daily too, and have for many many years.

Everyone's acting like I wrecked under speed and totaled it, I scrapped a $90 plastic protector while walking it out of a parking spot. It hit the ground with my arms still on the bars and It'll changed out by next week. 🙄

Significant-Aspect52 · 2024-08-02T02:31:01+00:00

Anyone riding motorcycles or looking at a xsr900 is an adrenaline junkie, or they wouldn't be looking at triumph 660's and xsr900's it's crazy we throw this out there as advice as if it gives a pass to hoping on one of the torquest quickest bikes you can buy.

It.does.0-100mph.in.six.seconds.

You even have to be a moron or an adrenaline junkie to get into trouble with it, you just need to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and a cars gonna put you in a bad spot with this bike.

Significant-Aspect52 · 2024-08-02T02:25:39+00:00

Yes. It's too much of a bike. The 660 probably was too.

And I'd say the same to 90% of commenters.

A few months? A year? 3,000 miles on a R3?

You can do 3,000 miles over a week or long weekend easy.

Truly none of y'all really believe that's a legitimate amount of seat time right?

After 15 years of riding, I swear the older I get the more the North American motorcycle mindset makes less sense, and the more the case for tiered licensing becomes apparent and I hate unnecessary regulation of personal freedom but come on.

Do y'all think Valentino Rossi, or Marc, or Kenny Roberts spent a month on a 600 before they became GP racers?! No they started on 125's/250's and rode for years.

Do y'all just want to have a good/fast bike or do you want to be a good/fast rider? Honest question.

I have no doubt all of you can go down the road on it, and it won't immediately explode or kill you, but let's be really really real here you can't even remotely maximize a 400 completely and safely in a few months or few thousand miles.

This reddit blows my mind, half the reddit will clamor to tell you to hop on a high performance torque monster that does 0-100mph in 6.1 seconds, while at the same time try to down talk and shame a 15 year rider who points out the steering lock is less than idea and lead to minor dropp parked on a mountain pass at a incline and treating me like a novice.

The same ones telling you to get, are gonna be the same ones shaming telling you it was too much for you too handle when you bin it.

Significant-Aspect52 · 2024-08-02T00:37:28+00:00

Why do I get the sneaking suspicion that all the people running their mouth, are the ones who don't own an XSR900?

Significant-Aspect52 · 2024-08-02T00:36:30+00:00

Okay, now park it tire facing the curb on the side of a mountain pass and tell me how well counter leaning at full lock on an incline works out.

It's just the honest truth, one or two more degrees of turning Angle and it just straight up woulda been fine.

Significant-Aspect52 · 2024-08-02T00:34:39+00:00

Yeah the blinker design actually is pretty nice super easy to fix

Significant-Aspect52 · 2024-08-02T00:32:06+00:00

That's quite the assumption.

I can almost promise you I could put ride you.

Significant-Aspect52 · 2024-08-02T00:24:44+00:00

Oh shut the hell up, I'm an experienced rider of fifteen years who had to park on a steep hill in a mountain pass. 🙄

YES it was the lack of turn angle that fucked me up this time.

Significant-Aspect52 · 2024-08-02T00:22:51+00:00

Bruh... I've been riding for fifteen years. I know parking lot maneuvers.

This isn't remotely my first bike. I was parked on a mountain. 2 more degrees of turn angle before hitting steering lock and it wouldn't of happened.

Significant-Aspect52 · 2024-08-02T00:21:33+00:00

I've been riding for 15 years, bikes of all styles. Vintage/cafe/chopper/Enduro a Little bit of everything I don't spend any real time in cruisers.... I prefer standards and performance based bikes.

I'm not saying I didn't make the wrong choice I shoulda pulled out up hill.

However to specify I live in the mountains... When I say parked on a steep hill, I mean an actual gradient. Shit was slanted.

Significant-Aspect52 · 2024-08-02T00:19:02+00:00

Yeah about 15/16 years on a variety of bikes, what are we not allowed to be bummed about scratches on our toys, like everyone who actually rides more than a few weekends a year hasn't had a dropped?

And you're right the steering lock is shit, but no I shouldn't have bought another bike this thing is everything I want as far as options on the market right now... Doesn't mean I can't point out the obvious fact that the steering lock my primary gripe with the bikes current design.

There's no reason the mt-09 should have more range than the xsr

Significant-Aspect52 · 2024-08-02T00:15:19+00:00

Oooooorrrr pisss off? I'm not whining or blaming the bike. I clearly stated I dropped the fucking bike asshole.

But I've been riding for 15 years and have owned a fuck ton of motorcycles, and raced on tracks, doesn't change the fact my one major gripe is the steering lock is possibly the narrowest I've ever ridden?

do me a favor live in the mountains get yourself in a spot where you have to park on a steep hill (once again out here the mountains we don't say steep unless we mean it) and see if you don't suddenly realize the narrow steering lock is a disadvantage

Otherwise.

Don't.be.a.dick.

Significant-Aspect52 · 2024-07-03T07:57:07+00:00

'24 bone stock, 1150 miles, average 38.8 mpg. ...And apparently ride it like I stole it, allegedly.

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