Chem northern Poland on the eastern border with Ukraine. Yesterday we left Rzeszow which is in the south of ukraine our paln was travelling North.We left with a splattering of rain which shortly increased to fully wet roads although we were able to miss the actual showers I dislike roads that have just had a light shower much more than fully wet and washed roads I find them to much less predictable and sure enough twice I was caught out once braking to a stop and the rear wheelb abs kicked in, in fairness I was braking quite hard on the rear brake and there was the just the slightest of hesitation in slowing. it is a bit disconcerting as the bike appears to accelerate briefly between the reactions it doesn't but it feels like it The second time was more my fault accelerating and the traction control stepped in as I said it was my fault, I will add as a valid excuse that due to the discomfort in my legs I am finding gear changing tedious and need to raise the lever the slightest amount. I dropped it the other day and although it made riding much easier I find that the movement distance between one gear and the next especially 1st to 2nd,greater than than the Triumph which only needs the slightest of flicks to go from gear to gear The BMW needs more and I realise that I am not allowing second gear to reselect third so have consciously drop my foot lower.Tomorrow another slight adjustment! Anyway that's how I ended up with the traction control kicking in for the first ever time on road and whilst I wonder about all the longevity of all the sensors etc admire the Sophistication of this machine. Riding varies from open Relatively flat sweeping roads to towns and villages all of which have an interesting aspect to keep me amused The scenary wss fantastic every changing nearly always green and a real bikers road surface and minimum traffic. we stopped for lunch at a tourist cafe / resturant and at the moment cannot think what we ate
Sunday morning
Chem northern Poland on the eastern border with Ukraine. Yesterday we left Rzeszow which is in the south of ukraine our paln was travelling North.We left with a splattering of rain which shortly increased to fully wet roads although we were able to miss the actual showers I dislike roads that have just had a light shower much more than fully wet and washed roads I find them to much less predictable and sure enough twice I was caught out once braking to a stop and the rear wheelb abs kicked in, in fairness I was braking quite hard on the rear brake and there was the just the slightest of hesitation in slowing. it is a bit disconcerting as the bike appears to accelerate briefly between the reactions it doesn't but it feels like it The second time was more my fault accelerating and the traction control stepped in as I said it was my fault, I will add as a valid excuse that due to the discomfort in my legs I am finding gear changing tedious and need to raise the lever the slightest amount. I dropped it the other day and although it made riding much easier I find that the movement distance between one gear and the next especially 1st to 2nd,greater than than the Triumph which only needs the slightest of flicks to go from gear to gear The BMW needs more and I realise that I am not allowing second gear to reselect third so have consciously drop my foot lower.Tomorrow another slight adjustment! Anyway that's how I ended up with the traction control kicking in for the first ever time on road and whilst I wonder about all the longevity of all the sensors etc admire the Sophistication of this machine. Riding varies from open Relatively flat sweeping roads to towns and villages all of which have an interesting aspect to keep me amused The scenary wss fantastic every changing nearly always green and a real bikers road surface and minimum traffic. we stopped for lunch at a tourist cafe / resturant and at the moment cannot think what we ate
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