# new bike soon a few questions **URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-bike-soon-a-few-questions/262807 **Category:** Shift518 Automotive **Created:** [February 27, 2012, 10:43am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-bike-soon-a-few-questions/262807 "2012-02-27T10:43:46Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 29
### Author: ![KrazyKid](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/krazykid/32/6371_2.png) [@KrazyKid](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/KrazyKid) #### Post date: [March 19, 2012, 8:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-bike-soon-a-few-questions/262807/29 "2012-03-19T08:34:22Z")
> [@FS:2002 TDI](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fs-2002-tdi/48647/25): > > On/offs and motards always feel uneasy in corners. > > Ive scrapped pegs on Sv, dragged knee on GSXR, but still don’t dare to back it in or lay the motard low. Something about high position an softer suspension. :ponder > > Get pics! Turn in the compression a bunch and the rebound a touch. Warm up the tires and toss the gear on. That DRZ will hang a turn like your other bikes do… its all in your head I think. Just hunker down a bit on the DRZ and get your body lower… poor mans knee dragging but it gets the CG lower. The bike will stick. You have street tires on it right? My KTM was about 5 inches taller seat height than my friends DRZ’s and it carved a turn great, the bike had more but the rider didnt. Still no stripe on that 160 rear. The DRZ with my light ass on it, the middle of the road comp/rebound was soft. But crank them in and it stiffened right up. > [@SOLD: Frontmount Intercooler](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sold-frontmount-intercooler/48659/8): > > Yeah I meant to get pics before I went in to work,but it took me a while to get it from troy city to colonie since I wont drive it on the highway yet. il be riding it downtown tomorrow for kegs and eggs il be sure to get some pics, its a blue 2010. Dont take that thing on a highway man. If you are not comfertable on city streets yet, you will shit yourself at 75mph, that thing pegged, and catching drafts/gusts off the back of trucks and semi’s. Its NOT fun at all on a non-aero bike like a motard or a dual sport like you have. it blows you all over the place, and there isnt anything to tuck your body into. On my motard, I used to hunker down, tuck into the little ass headlight faring (just enough air would deflect over it to go over my helmet) and put my feet back on the swing arm axle sliders like little pegs to get in my low stance when I was on the highway. Even then it was gusty and would blow me all over the road. I hated it. Longest ride on that bike was amsterdam rt29 to the northway all the way to scroon river or what ever it is up there… it sucked ass, boring ride, ass was numb from the rock hard seat… but the back roads up there were worth the trouble! --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-bike-soon-a-few-questions/262807)._