GeoKrpan
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He pulled over to wait for them a couple of times.
Vit 401 keeping up with a 701 and 690.
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Jester1971
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He does like his rev limiter!
Way to many risks for my liking, the amount of time his wheels, whole bike or head are over the white line is scary. Just one truck doing the same in the other direction and bye bye biker. Not the way I would ride but does show a fast rider on a slow bike can easily trounce a slow rider on a faster bike.
Way to many risks for my liking, the amount of time his wheels, whole bike or head are over the white line is scary. Just one truck doing the same in the other direction and bye bye biker. Not the way I would ride but does show a fast rider on a slow bike can easily trounce a slow rider on a faster bike.
10 years ago I used to ride my Thruxton with a gang of Thruxton riders. Sometimes a T-Max (560cc?) scooter rider rode with us. He rode that scooter like crazy and we sometimes let him lead the pack. He had no issues keeping up with our bigger bikes but he had to work to keep up. One of those days he crashed, I wasn’t with them that day but it wasn’t pretty. Just because you can keep up, that doesn’t mean you should.
A couple of weeks ago my buddy and I were riding down a steep, narrow, twisty mountain road.
A couple of big Harleys came up from behind and tailgated me. Obviously these guys were spectacular riders. I pulled to the right to give them room to pass but my buddy didn't, his prerogative.
They finally got by my buddy and one of them paused to curse and wave his fist. When we got down the mountain we all got caught at a signal. My buddy grabbed the guy by the shirt and told him to pull over! My buddy was in the Italian Special Forces. The Harley guy got the heck out of there.
I couldn't help but wonder how the heck those guys rode those big bikes like that. I'm sure they are greatly skilled but I'm also sure they crossed over the center line of the road.
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toast449
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Even as a bike rider, watching that video I was thinking that if I was on the road and those open exhaust dipshits were riding like that I would be hoping for a moving truck to come around the corner when they were riding outside their lane.
Back in the 1990s Miguel Duhamel was in my cycling club. Many professional motorcycle road racers cycle for fitness.
I'd bet that average guy, no matter what he was riding couldn't keep up with Miguel on a 401 on a twisty road.
The Bostrom brothers, Ben and Eric, live in my vicinity, now bicycle riders. I have met them both while out riding my bicycle. They were tickled that I knew Miguel.
Another guy here, Malcolm, was once a pro road racer, now a bicycle rider. In '96 or '97 Miguel won the Supersport and Superbike titles and invited the cycling club to the victory party. I found out a year ago from Malcom that he was also there, small world.
Speaking of going over the center line, a friend, Jacob, was killed on Angeles Crest Highway on his R1. It was a head on collision with another motorcyclist who had gone over the center line on a curve. Jacob's head hit the other rider in the chest, he died instantly, the other rider survived.
Jacob had been a fighter pilot in the Israeli Air Force so you know he had the reflexes of a cat.
In Sweden opposed to several other countries we have a separate motorcycle drivers license. You need to pass a written exam, a driving test at a low speed course and stress braking, and after that you need to pass a road driving exam. This means most people here spend many hours at a driving school with a specifically trained motorcycle teacher before attempting the tests. Many fail at the first attempt.
With that background, here we learn to pass the centerline of the road in turns, you are encouraged to do so. But of course only in open corners and with no traffic around. In many clips I see on instagram, riders don’t seem to have any training whatsoever.
Of course, we have a separate motorcycle license here in the US with a written and driving test but it probably isn't as rigorous as in other places in the world.
Many of the roads that I ride are tiny backroads with a broken center line but some have double yellow lines which are illegal to cross.
I generally don't cross the center line but I think I have been too conservative about it. As I said, sometimes I think it would be safer as long as it isn't a blind curve.