Hi from the uk

Hi my name is Alan from Stoke on Trent .UK
I have just got my self a 4 year old silver wing . Hoping to get some good tips and information on the silver wing
Pleas have patience with me as I fined my way around the Forum

  There are a lot of pictorials and maintenance tips available here.  

Hello Zoom Zoom.

Finally seen the light and got a sensible scooter then!

Cheers,

Welcome! I guess you and I will be learning together as there is much here to learn, LOL.

  

Welcome from Maryland !

hi ZZG is stock on trent anywhere near stoke on trent,,  hope your back on the road for sunday..( bye the way , its me horobags),    

 Silver Wing...The Only Way To Fly....

Magoo Triker

marco wrote:

hi ZZG is stock on trent anywhere near stoke on trent,,  hope your back on the road for sunday..( bye the way , its me horobags),    

He was trying to sound posh and not talk in that funny accent he has!

Cheers,

Welcome aboard the SW board from the Great White North Alan! ~ Bugjr ~

Hello & welcome from Shropshire (not even close to Texas or Maryland )

I didn't know Horobags (Marko) rode a Silverwing!!

Welcome from wildest Lancashire.
PS I didn't realise that Horobags had become a refugee from other forums (a?) !!!

Old Limey wrote:

I didn't know Horobags (Marko) rode a Silverwing!!

I think he's had a couple, and sold one to tarmacburner2 with a load of fancy stuff on it.

Hi from Hampshire!

...and Hi from Lincolnshire!!! My first week on my newly aquired Wing

Welcome from Wiltshire....in England that is!  

Thanks all for the welcome
Mark I use a keyboard like I ride a bike ,badly   

Hi  I've only had mine a week longer than yourself. Lincs. based


Welcome

Horobags (Marco) changes his bikes / scooters more than some people change their underwear. I don't know what he is riding at the moment, there again he may not either!
The Scoot I bought that Mark traded in is very well sorted. He said it was the best handling Silverwing he had ever had.

Cheers,

Talking of handling, I've just moved to a Silverwing after 13 years of Burger 400 ownership. One thing thats really obvious is the front suspension....I t feels as if I have none!!!

Find myself taking the long way round the smallest of potholes......it really is harsh. Would I be best checking tyhe fork oil as the bike has covered 39000 mls

Welcome,

If you are thinking of servicing the front suspension then do yourself a favour and get rid of the stock springs. A conversion to Hyperpro is the way to go. You can do a search of the forum topics for further info!

GTscootz wrote:

Talking of handling, I've just moved to a Silverwing after 13 years of Burger 400 ownership.  One thing thats really obvious is the front suspension....I t feels as if I have none!!!

Find myself taking the long way round the smallest of potholes......it really is harsh. Would I be best checking tyhe fork oil as the bike has covered 39000 mls

GTscootz wrote:

... snipped ... I've just moved to a Silverwing after 13 years of Burger 400 ownership.  One thing thats really obvious is the front suspension....I t feels as if I have none!!!

I agree. I found the Burgman 400 to be a superior handling scoot to my SW ... prinarily because of the front end handling.

Guess I'll need to do some reading up on dem dar HyperPro tings. Souds like a possible solution. ~ Bugjr ~

Last year that I found my bog standard Silver Wing handled the bends of the Kyffhäuser hills in Thuringia, Germany far better than previous rides there on a 400 Burgman K6, and a 650 Burgman K8. In the damp conditions that day the Honda felt far more confidence inspiring than the two Suzuki's I rode there in better conditions.

The Kyffhäuser is where the German knees down brigade come from all over on their sports bike to ride as a side trip from the nearby Harz. I've found both the Kyfhäusser and the Harz have ideal roads to compare what I've ridden there before. Even the Honda CN250 Helix I rode there on my first trip there handled better than the lardass 650 Burgman.

Its not so much the handling through bends, just the teeth rattling, back jarring I receive when I hit what seems like the merest crack in the road, that the Burg400 just absorbed

What are your rear shocks set to? I find 3 fine for solo riding, and the Handbook tyre pressures of 29 psi Front and 33 Rear work for me. Has the dealer or previous owner over inflated the tyres?

Rear shocks are set at 3, going to check pressures after work, thankfully just under an hour

No doubt there are a lot of variables to what each of us considers "good handling" and a lot will depend on "how" we ride.

I base my comparisons on those few and far between times when I can ride very aggressively i.e. through the twisties at "The Dragon" in North Carolina and to me, the SW just did not feel as planted nor was I able to attack the twisties with the same gusto and confidence as I could with the Burgman 400.

More 'Hellos' from Hampshire. I've had a mine a year this week and I love it. This is defintely the best palce for help and support. JR

Hello from Northern Ireland to another UK owner! Not too many Wings on this side of the Irish Sea.