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Hawt Motorcycle Talk
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This thread is epic.
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I felt the need to poast some Streetfighter porn.
How fun would that be?
That bike is just pure bad-assery.
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I'd kill myself confirmed.PurpleBaze said:I felt the need to poast some Streetfighter porn.
How fun would that be?
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CSB. For real.1to392831weretaken said:
Only did that once before hanging up the street riding. Amazing road! My buddy and I, he on an FZ1 and me on a CBR1000RR, once tried doing the whole Mountain Loop Highway, only to find it turned to extremely potholed gravel with a lot of downed trees. After several miles of standing up on a CBR like it's a motocross bike and railing through the dirt, weaving around downed trees, we finally came to a downed tree that blocked the whole road. We'd been having so much fun on this unexpected adventure that we actually scouted the bushes on the side of the road to work our way around, then briefly considered lifting each bike over the logs and carrying on our way, but sanity prevailed and we turned around.GrundleStiltzkin said:You assholes zooming around out here in Granite Falls drive me fucking crazy.
Granite Falls is an area I take people who are new to Western Washington just to blow them away with the views. Cool fucking city!° -
Oh, I'd certainly love to try one. I chose the SDR as my bananas dream bike because of its more torque-biased, impossible-to-not-wheelie, batshit crazy nature. 208 hp with no fairing would certainly be insane, but I've read that Ducati has actually biased the SF more to the track (high speed, high RPM, etc.), and it's actually a very civilized bike around town if you want it to be. Which is even more amazing of an achievement, just less batshit crazy. I'd have to try both back to back, though.PurpleBaze said:I felt the need to poast some Streetfighter porn.
How fun would that be?
That bike is just pure bad-assery.
As for developing skills by starting younger, I'm not too different from you. Now, 25 isn't 47, but it's still a hell of a lot older to start riding than when most people give it a shot (racing 85s like @Swaye). I developed a sudden and immediate addiction at 25, started track riding at 26, quit at 28 when it rained every fucking day for a whole summer, started again at 32 after they built The Ridge, and now I'm 40. Didn't start riding on the dirt until I was 29.
I had zero real scary moments on the street after I started track riding. I had one crash and several close calls before, though, in that first year, because I didn't understand what the bike could do and thought I was in trouble when I wasn't. My only crash on the street happened right here, shortly before my first track day. I was on my way home from work and took the more curvy Bayview Edison to Chuckanut to get some "practice" in before my first day on track. (In retrospect, I laugh now at how backward thinking it is to practice for the track on a public road instead of vice versa...) I was well above 100 heading into that sweeper to the left, got on the brakes hard like you would, and the back end started fishtailing. I'd experienced this already, so no big deal (hard enough on the brakes, and the rear wheel isn't touching the ground, hence the fishtailing), but then the front end started chop-chop-chopping off the asphalt. This was new, and it freaked me out. Instead of just (probably easily) completing the turn, I decided the safest bet was to just run straight ahead on the gravel road that carried on straight. Didn't see the ditch that ran across that road, which launched me off my bike like I was shot out of a cannon. Landed upside down in a thicket of blackberries that have since been removed. Like being caught in a net, so I was completely unscathed. Bike took some fixin'. It was funny, as all of the blackberries smashed all over me made it look like I was totally fucked up and bloody.
I bring this up because you're absolutely right as to the value the track brings to street riding. You don't need to know how to shave that last five seconds off your lap time. You DO need to know that if your bike does X, that's fine, and if your bike does Y, you should fix it. You learn that in a very safe environment at the track. Public roads are where you learn the hard way. -
Thanks once again for the great insight...
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Marc Marquez out another 2-3 months. Needless to say, TSIO for him.
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Good call. I should watch the last race before I read any spoilers. Been out in the woods getting mosquito bites and tetanus all weekend and had forgotten about Austria 2.0.
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In other news, should we have a rolling "motorcycle stuff" all-in-one thread? Should this be it? If so, should it have the title changed and be moved by a benevolent modde to the Shoppe?
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I can do this, though the Wam will miss your presence.1to392831weretaken said:In other news, should we have a rolling "motorcycle stuff" all-in-one thread? Should this be it? If so, should it have the title changed and be moved by a benevolent modde to the Shoppe?
