Well, not really - But they can idle along nice and slow when you need them to 
The long story short:
I lost my GoProHD (just fitted a new LCD back onto it) a few weeks ago in the forest where I ride all the time.
I had it clamped to the back rack of the bike facing rearwards and when we stopped about 12kms out I noticed it missing. :'(
The clamp was still there but the thumb wheel had come undone and spat the camera off onto the trail (into the bush's) somewhere.
I immediately marked a waypoint on the GPS and decided we would back track at the end of the day as I did not want to ruin our ride by idling all the way back home looking for it so early in the day.
The end of the day come along so I navigated back to the previously marked waypoint and followed the bread-crumb trail back home at maybe 20>30kph looking side to side hoping that it would just be found in the middle of the trail somewhere.
We were obviously not lucky that day with no sign of the missing camera so we call it quits and enjoyed a bear to drown the sorrows.
We headed out last Saturday for a really good ride out in the same area again with this lonely lost soul of a camera playing on my mind, so I decided to go out for another recon mission on Sunday morning.
More of an excuse for another ride I guess as I was not very hopeful of spotting the camera after so long.
Anyway, I generally dont do much idling around on this (or other) bike and never realised how easy it is to ride this bike trials style standing on the pegs and just letting the engine do it's thing in first gear.
The area we ride is a mix of gravel/sand/dirt and consists of many rocky and/or sandy hill climbs. The tracks are jeep trails to overgrown single/goat trails and there are a lot of rain ruts and fist to football sized rocks dotted here there and everywhere.
I rode the entire track to the marked waypoint (took about one hour) in first gear at engine idle and really had a great time, and, was super surprised that I never once had to feather the clutch or use the throttle.
The engine idled comfortably at 1000>1050rpm at around 13kph (8mph) and at times, through boggy terrain or steep uphills, dropped down to lows of 800rpm at around 10>11kph (6.5mph).
There were times when the side bush was quite thick and I braked to slow down to a crawl to have a closer inspection and I am sure that the engine seemed to fire in time with the second hand on my watch, still idling, against braking load, and still with no feathering of the clutch or addition of throttle 8)
Very cool experience...
Maybe I should slow down more often and just let the Super Tenere take me for a ride.
Greg.
So much for the short story.... Sorry bout that.
The long story short:
I lost my GoProHD (just fitted a new LCD back onto it) a few weeks ago in the forest where I ride all the time.
I had it clamped to the back rack of the bike facing rearwards and when we stopped about 12kms out I noticed it missing. :'(
The clamp was still there but the thumb wheel had come undone and spat the camera off onto the trail (into the bush's) somewhere.
I immediately marked a waypoint on the GPS and decided we would back track at the end of the day as I did not want to ruin our ride by idling all the way back home looking for it so early in the day.
The end of the day come along so I navigated back to the previously marked waypoint and followed the bread-crumb trail back home at maybe 20>30kph looking side to side hoping that it would just be found in the middle of the trail somewhere.
We were obviously not lucky that day with no sign of the missing camera so we call it quits and enjoyed a bear to drown the sorrows.
We headed out last Saturday for a really good ride out in the same area again with this lonely lost soul of a camera playing on my mind, so I decided to go out for another recon mission on Sunday morning.
More of an excuse for another ride I guess as I was not very hopeful of spotting the camera after so long.
Anyway, I generally dont do much idling around on this (or other) bike and never realised how easy it is to ride this bike trials style standing on the pegs and just letting the engine do it's thing in first gear.
The area we ride is a mix of gravel/sand/dirt and consists of many rocky and/or sandy hill climbs. The tracks are jeep trails to overgrown single/goat trails and there are a lot of rain ruts and fist to football sized rocks dotted here there and everywhere.
I rode the entire track to the marked waypoint (took about one hour) in first gear at engine idle and really had a great time, and, was super surprised that I never once had to feather the clutch or use the throttle.
The engine idled comfortably at 1000>1050rpm at around 13kph (8mph) and at times, through boggy terrain or steep uphills, dropped down to lows of 800rpm at around 10>11kph (6.5mph).
There were times when the side bush was quite thick and I braked to slow down to a crawl to have a closer inspection and I am sure that the engine seemed to fire in time with the second hand on my watch, still idling, against braking load, and still with no feathering of the clutch or addition of throttle 8)
Very cool experience...
Maybe I should slow down more often and just let the Super Tenere take me for a ride.
Greg.
So much for the short story.... Sorry bout that.
