It could have something to do with the angle of bend at your wrist due to ergonomics of sport bikes...Unless of course , your arm and wrist are alighned properly..

OK, I got it. I saw this, finally: " AirHawk International acquires AirHawk brand and product line from ROHO."-meb

Yes, Roho was recently bought out by a Swedish concern, I think.

Somefun
I use the same dryspec combo as you were running. Great kit, I tried to drown myself and the 14 recently in a rain storm. I was soaked to the bone, but everything in the dryspec gear was completely dry.

Just came back from a 2 day ride in the Catskills. The riding and scenery were fantastic.

Very nice .....You are sure right about the scenery..Gorgeous.

I just copied this from my post in the Ride Reports, in case y'all missed that ... so YES I do take road trips on the ZX14!

Orlando > Skyline Drive > Blue Ridge Parkway > Tail of the Dragon > FL

Rough route (hard to make Google Maps follow the exact route)

Fri Sept 4, 2015 two buds and I rode to Sanford FL where Amtrak's Auto Train departs for Lorton VA. The Auto Train is an overnight train trip that takes you and your motorcycle for $302 each (cars $60 more I think). It departs at 4 pm and arrives at 9 am the next morning. Dinner and breakfast included. Our train was an hour late leaving, but still made it on time somehow. I assume some kind of magic was performed while I slept.

You can choose a chair, a 2-person cabin, or a larger fancier cabin. 1 bud decided to sleep in a chair, while the other and I shared a cabin. The cabin is teeny tiny only 1 person can stand in it and nowhere to even walk around; the other must stay seated or wait outside the room if one wants to stand up. And when both are seated your knees are almost touching. When it's bed time you pull down the bunk's bed, and then climb 2 stairs to get up there, and then secure a net from the edge of the bed to the ceiling, so you don't fall out while bounding down the tracks during the night. The amount of room left once there are 2 beds is so small you have hardly any room for any stuff. I had to put my luggage on the bed with me. We hung some things from a hook on the wall using bungees I brought along. It wasn't as bad as I'm making it sound, but don't expect to bring much with you!

No pics, but the next car in front of ours had quite a few dining tables, which were spacious like a normal 4-person dining table should be, so we spent a lot of our awake time there. Also, the view out the train window was not as interesting as I thought it'd be. Pretty boring actually. Not sure what I was expecting. Bigfoot?

When the train stopped in Lorton at 9 am the next morning, we unloaded our bikes & rode 70 mi to Front Royal VA which is the N end of Skyline Drive, a limited access, slow speed (35 mph) scenic road through the lower Great Smoky Mountains of VA, similar to the Blue Ridge Parkway but shorter mountains / lower elevations. Our bikes at the first scenic overlook we decided to stop at on Skyline Drive:

Then we rode the entire 109-mi Skyline Dr to Waynesboro, VA and stayed at a "Quality" Inn ;) there. The S end of Skyline Dr runs right into the N end of the 469-mi also limited access, also slow speed (45 mph) scenic Blue Ridge Parkway, so the next morning Sun Sept 6 we began riding the BRP, headed for the very southern end of it in Cherokee NC. Here's our first scenic overlook on the BRP:

Sun nite we stayed the night in this little 5-bed bunkhouse (at center) at Willville Motorcycle Campground in the little town of Meadows of Dan on the BRP. Spartan room but clean, and friendly folks. This seemingly little cabin has five single beds! Man & his daughter there on the porch next to us, with their bike parked under the shelter:

Willville's nice big pavilion with picnic tables & fireplace, and to the right in the background is the campfire area, with quite a few bikers staying in tents:

Part of Willville's camping area (a little stream behind me here):

Mon morn breakfast at the Mabry Mill restaurant right on the BRP close to Willville:

Mon after breakfast we crossed from VA into NC on the BRP and ate lunch at the Switzerland Cafe in Little Switzerland NC (bike at left wasn't with us):

Mon mid afternoon we stopped at the Mt Mitchell overlook:

Somewhere along the BRP:

Another BRP scenic overlook, no idea which one. Yawn, ho-hum, another fantastic view of miles of mountains & valleys:

Mon nite, we had 2 cabins at the Blue Ridge Motorcycle Campground. Also spartan-but-clean rooms ... just fine for sleeping and then resuming the ride:
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Tues noon stopped at the highest pt on the BRP, over a mile above sea level:

Tues, another overlook, starting to rain for the first time:

By Tues afternoon we had completed the entire BRP ... which was my main goal ... and then headed for Deal's Gap, which is where the Tail of the Dragon starts. There's a single gas station with 14 motel rooms and a restaurant. We got room number lucky 13. Another nice, clean place, although no cell coverage! We stayed here 2 nights:

Ridin' the Dragon:

And again ... we rode it a bunch!

Zoom I like ... sorry!

At the north end of the Dragon is a scenic overlook where many of the tired racers, I mean riders, stop to rest & talk:

Cheoah Dam is nearby. Stopping on a bridge? Sure, why not:

... and the Fontana Dam, which is surprisingly dilapidated; lots of cracks and shifted concrete = scary! This thing is way, way bigger than it looks here ... it's a looooong way down to that water:

After Deal's Gap, we stayed in Maggie Valley NC for our last nite. And after racing, I mean riding, the Dragon, I was checking my bike over and found that I had worn thru the rubber to the belt on the rear tire. And my front tire also getting very smooth and weird shaped, so my fun in any more curves was over until we could ride (delicately) over to Greenville SC to get new ones installed ... but since we headed home after that I didn't get to enjoy them in any curves. Next time :)

After new tires, we rode straight thru from Greenville back to FL and got home at midnight Fri Sep 11 ... about 8 days total, and exactly 2,020 miles.

I just got home from a 2333-mile Ride to Arkansas. I've modified my Bike especially for traveling. I added 2" spacers under each handlebar, lowered the foot pegs with Buell pegs, use a throttle lock, a 2015 Concours Touring Seat, Zero Gravity Touring Shield and my latest addition-using the stock screen for additional wind blockage. The screen may look ugly but is very functional in the rain and to duct behind for bugs. And it pops off easily.


averaged 39.4 MPG for 10078 miles, not bad for a hyper Bike. I enjoy going over 90 mph on my trips.

* Last updated by: doubleD on 10/9/2015 @ 12:21 PM *

Great pics, all. The Tn/NC/Ga area and most of Arkansas are fantastic riding areas. My buddy from Daytona has done the Auto-Train a couple of times and loves it. Keep on rackin' the miles and tearing up the twists!

Extrapolator, Great pics and write up. Thanks for sharing.

Tks guys. Glad y'all enjoyed them. I'm enjoying reading about the trips others have taken, too.