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Caged while riding a Motorcycle

Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 9:50 pm
by Locked and Loaded
Interested in knowing if anyone rides a motorcycle while caged. If so, are there any particular challenges? If there are, how do you work around them, or just uncage while riding.

I do some long distance rides (up to 700 miles per day) and I am trying to determine if my travels will be caged or not.

Thanks.

Re: Caged while riding a Motorcycle

Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2019 3:41 am
by TwistedMister
I ride a Yamaha Virago 1100. Just have to sit slightly differently.

Re: Caged while riding a Motorcycle

Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2019 7:35 am
by locked4her55
L&L, Seems to be quite a few of us here that ride a motor. If you type "motorcycle" in the upper righthand corner [search] box you will have a plethora of information.

BTW, I ride a HD Electra Glide and have no issues. A comfortable snug base ring was important for me as I started out with a loose fitting ring and found the little boys escaping. :lol:

Re: Caged while riding a Motorcycle

Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2019 11:11 am
by KittensBoyToy
Like @locked4her55 I ride an Electra Glide (convert to a trike). No problem for me at all but I haven't done any rides caged over about 1 1/2 hours so far.

Re: Caged while riding a Motorcycle

Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2019 8:56 pm
by Xileh
I think it will depend greatly on the type of riding you do. Are you riding on a cruiser, or a more aggressive, bent forward style like a sport bike? Additionally, as a veteran of many 1000 mile days, completely removing my Aerostich for bathroom breaks every 200 miles would be a royal pain and a time sink.

Re: Caged while riding a Motorcycle

Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2019 2:53 pm
by focUSed
I ride to/from work several times a month (alternate schedule) and 2 hrs at a time on some free weekends. I find the most awareness is because of the seated position tending to roll me forward onto relaxed bits that sometimes requires a repositioning of things. For the 45 mins drive to/from work, everything is usually fine; it's only the longer ones where it becomes more apparent. But even then it's not discouraging enough to prevent me from at least trying.

Now if there's ever a get off...that will be an interesting experience for more reasons than the incident itself!

Re: Caged while riding a Motorcycle

Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2019 8:03 am
by gingers_sub
I ride a Yamaha Maxim 750. No problems.

Re: Caged while riding a Motorcycle

Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2019 5:14 pm
by noid51
I’ve taken long trips caged and for the most part haven’t had any problems. Had to stop every once in a while to”adjust” things. I like to think it keeps me riding safer as I wouldn’t want to explain the cage to an emergency room doctor! I ride a Yamaha FJR.

Re: Caged while riding a Motorcycle

Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2019 3:08 am
by Steve2059
GIve it a try, but take a key (sealed in a signed envelope so KH would know if you'd used it).

Re: Caged while riding a Motorcycle

Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2019 10:13 pm
by GoodOlBoy
I ride a Honda Shadow Aero, not a problem at all. Most of my rides have been less than 100 miles though.