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Almost a year has passed since my last RR lol

Finally having some nice weather as of late and took the S9 for a cruise/picture session.







Carved a few corners on the outskirts of town, then hit a few dirt roads in the rolling hills of OK.




The Kendas still have less than 1k miles on them, but no real complaints yet other than a little tire noise on very smooth roads at 35-40mph. I was expecting that though since they are dual sport tires so no big deal.

Figured I should use this thread as my RR thread and just update this instead of making new threads.

Road to work today knowing there was rain coming because I wanted to test the the ability of the new tires in the wet. It was light rain when I left work so I decided to take the long way home. Unfortunately it started raining pretty hard and I was starting to see lightning so I decided to cut the ride short and come home, but the tires handled fantastic.

I was taking it a little easier than normal since it was the first time riding with them in the wet, but by the end of the ride I felt confident enough to drive about 75-85% of how I would in the dry.   

wasn't able to take a ton of pics this time due to the rain...my S4 screen doesn't respond that well when it's all wet lol

scoot in the rain by DerekG710, on Flickr

scoot in the rain by DerekG710, on Flickr

scoot in the rain by DerekG710, on Flickr

scoot in the rain by DerekG710, on Flickr

Thanks guys! I'm located in central Oklahoma (Ada). I had a blast, hopefully I'll be doing more exploring on the back roads.

Finally got a chance to give the new Kenda dual sport tires a proper test on some local dirt roads.

I went out for a quick ride across town that turned into an hour and a half cruise.

Tires handled great and didn't feel unstable at all under braking or moderate cornering. They felt a little squirrly on a section of gravel that was just laid down due to the size of the rocks (2" diameter) but anything smaller than that it handled like a champ. 

Pics

Just curious what kind of mileage you guys are getting with stock super 9s.

I drive a 100% stock 2004 LC S9 with 8,xxxkm and according to fuelly my overall average is ~50mpg. I have only recently (2012) started to track fuel mileage and I thought I remember reading somewhere that the stock S9s should see closer to 60-70mpg. BTW, I weigh ~116lbs

The scoot seems to run fine. It always starts within .5 sec of pushing the button, there isn't any notable bogging or sloppy running and it idles at ~1800rpm. I would consider my driving style conservative 85%-90% of the time and my cruising rpm range is 5k-7500, rarely do I rev it above that unless I'm trying to merge quickly on a busy road or get out of the way of a crazy driver.


Just wondering what everyone else is getting and how my mileage compares.

Here's my fuelly record for it....

http://www.fuelly.com/driver/derekg/super-9