{"id":244,"date":"2012-11-25T19:57:42","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T00:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lutorm.wordpress.com\/?p=244"},"modified":"2017-02-25T18:36:19","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T04:36:19","slug":"nc30-first-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.familjenjonsson.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/25\/nc30-first-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"NC30 first ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the carbs and valves finally done, it was time for a little test ride. (After having the bike for over 3 months, I&#8217;ve so far basically only ridden it around the block twice to test the forks after rebuilding them.) After putting the fairings back on, I shot some pictures and went for a ride.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atom.familjenjonsson.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/mg_59911.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-250\" title=\"NC30 fully dressed\" alt=\"NC30 fully dressed\" src=\"http:\/\/atom.familjenjonsson.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/mg_59911.jpg\" height=\"344\" width=\"545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.familjenjonsson.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/mg_59911.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/blog.familjenjonsson.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/mg_59911-150x94.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.familjenjonsson.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/mg_59911-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.familjenjonsson.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/mg_59911-600x379.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/atom.familjenjonsson.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/mg_59891.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-249\" title=\"NC30 fully dressed\" alt=\"NC30 fully dressed\" src=\"http:\/\/atom.familjenjonsson.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/mg_59891.jpg\" height=\"412\" width=\"545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.familjenjonsson.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/mg_59891.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/blog.familjenjonsson.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/mg_59891-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.familjenjonsson.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/mg_59891-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.familjenjonsson.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/mg_59891-600x453.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atom.familjenjonsson.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/mg_59921.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-248\" title=\"NC30 fully dressed\" alt=\"NC30 fully dressed\" src=\"http:\/\/atom.familjenjonsson.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/mg_59921.jpg\" height=\"476\" width=\"545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.familjenjonsson.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/mg_59921.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/blog.familjenjonsson.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/mg_59921-150x131.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.familjenjonsson.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/mg_59921-300x262.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.familjenjonsson.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/mg_59921-600x525.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/a>I shot a video of it starting up. It&#8217;s obviously not the first start, but I still thought the situation warranted \u00a0saving it for posterity.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"730\" height=\"548\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UoasUFvRSY4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After riding at maybe 15km around the local streets and a half-mile stint on the freeway between Artesia and Crenshaw, some observations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The engine runs really nice, it pulls cleanly with increasing power from pretty far down all the way up and idles steadily hot or cold. It sounds a lot better at 13-14k rpm than the NC23 does. At least something is right!<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s loud, even with the muffler insert. I&#8217;m ambivalent about this, on the one hand it sounds kind of aggressive, on the other hand I really don&#8217;t like people riding around making loads of noise. And forget about riding it without earplugs.<\/li>\n<li>The clutch is <em>really<\/em> heavy, even with a new and freshly lubed cable. My RSI-scarred hands were not happy about it after a while.<\/li>\n<li>After heating up, the clutch also drags a bit even when fully in which makes it hard to find neutral. This may be a NC30 &#8220;feature&#8221;, it seemed quite a few people on the 400greybike forum have the same issue and recommended blipping the throttle up to maybe 3000 rpm, and this definitely helped.<\/li>\n<li>The gas is also a bit heavy. I guess I just need to build up some hand strength.<\/li>\n<li>The seating position feels quite different from the NC23. It feels &#8220;shorter&#8221; somehow, like you reach less forward and more down with your arms. It&#8217;s also noticeably lower and narrower.<\/li>\n<li>It handles nicely. This is what everyone says about the NC30, and it seems true. In the few turns I went through, it felt willing to turn in and stable through the turn.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That was fun, but before doing any major riding, it needs new front brakes. The disks are about 0.4mm below the service limit and there&#8217;s major play in the floating disks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the carbs and valves finally done, it was time for a little test ride. (After having the bike for over 3 months, I&#8217;ve so far basically only ridden it around the block twice to test the forks after rebuilding them.) After putting the fairings back on, I shot some pictures and went for a &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.familjenjonsson.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/25\/nc30-first-ride\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;NC30 first ride&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,29],"tags":[13,15],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle","category-nc30","tag-motorcycles","tag-nc30"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.familjenjonsson.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.familjenjonsson.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.familjenjonsson.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.familjenjonsson.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.familjenjonsson.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.familjenjonsson.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2035,"href":"https:\/\/blog.familjenjonsson.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/2035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.familjenjonsson.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.familjenjonsson.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.familjenjonsson.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}