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ijii posted:I just had the scariest ride on my bike since I started riding back in April 2009.
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Z3n posted:This is also why it's a good idea to never out ride your sight lines. This is also why I stick to roads that are twisty enough that 40-50mph is a really quick pace and ~40mph is fun enough.
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Clank posted:The other day some guy was walking his bicycle across the road ahead of me, (I was the only one on the road, no cars) and he just stops on the median like hes going to let me go by. But just as I'm getting close he loving steps out in to the dead center of the road. I had to swerve around him, I don't know what he was thinking. Maybe dehydration, maybe he just felt like being a dick. I usually roll away at great speed when someone is a dick to me on the bike but I think that is one of the few times I would have turned around and had words.
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Oct 13, 2010 19:44
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You can brake in corners, you just can't jam them on.
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Nov 11, 2010 18:38
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What kind of bike?
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Nov 11, 2010 20:54
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I've been a front brake only person for a long time but good god, never mention this to other riders without feeling it out first or knowing they are track riders.
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Mar 30, 2011 00:54
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I will drag it over crests to keep the front down and if I am pulling off the road into gravel or something. I've read that you can use it to tighten up your line in corners, but I haven't really wanted to test it because most of the race bikes you see have swiss cheesed rotors (reducing friction), a lot of the race pads are less aggressive than stock (Kit Kawi rear pads are, at least), and I don't trust not to gently caress up.
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Apr 2, 2011 00:08
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FuzzyWuzzyBear posted:I think this depends on how heavily the front brakes are applied. A light touch on the front brakes will not stand the bike up when cranked over, but if you start hauling on the front binders, the bike will stand itself up pretty aggressively, regardless of your pressure on the bars. At least I've noticed this tendency on both my CBR and my KTM, and they were both pretty bang-on suspension wise. Do you notice how once you're in a corner you can take your hands off the bar and the bike will hold the line? I feel like when I am braking I need to force the bars to keep the line held.
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Apr 4, 2011 02:20
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AncientTV posted:Am I thinking of the same 4WD, vehicles that simply power all four wheels? Why would you ever need a separate license for that? They drive pretty much the same on the street. He means SUVs in American terms. Most of the '4WDs' out there are only 2wd in reality, notable exceptions include the 91-97 LandCruiser w/ elocker option (miss mine  ) and the Jeep Rubicon.
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Jul 18, 2011 06:42
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What do you ride again?
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Feb 1, 2012 20:23
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You've smoked the crack, welcome to the beginning of hooligan poo poo.
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Feb 2, 2012 02:30
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KodiakRS posted:
Oh hay, SRC.
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Jul 18, 2012 22:43
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Think about what the suspension does as you roll on the throttle (hint: it extends).
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Aug 6, 2012 03:23
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Covert Ops Wizard posted:Pretty drat. I get about a centimeter from using the whole tire judging from the wear pattern, and I was trying to get a little more speed through that turn than I usually do. Body positioning I had my rear end centered in the seat, head off to the side. I try to do the old "kiss the mirror" thing but I rarely shift my seat over because it seems a bit ridiculous for the street and I feel like I'm not doing it right. As an aside, doing that probably puts a bunch of input through the bars because when you shift your rear end over you lock your heel against the rearset (this is why peoples outside foot points up midcorner instead of straight ahead like normall) and put a lot of the holding your body does on your thighs/leg instead of arms. You've got a lot of lean left if there is a cm chickenstrip and you're not off the seat at all. I'd probably guess suspension related; I've had a bike pogo on me before but I was riding much harder than I should have been and on stock SV suspension that hadn't been touched since new. BlackMK4 fucked around with this message at 06:22 on Oct 7, 2012 |
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Oct 7, 2012 06:17
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Because drunk, obviously.
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Dec 8, 2012 12:26
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You should be fine, the triple is hilariously easy to ride compared to an inline 4 because the power delivery is pretty linear.
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Mar 18, 2013 22:36
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There are a lot of downhill skateboarders where I do canyon runs... poo poo is cool as gently caress.
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May 16, 2013 09:47
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I feel like it's almost more dangerous than a bike, but then again I've never skateboarded. 
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May 16, 2013 09:49
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Do you have an article for that antenna? Cool as gently caress.
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Dec 22, 2013 22:45
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So... where are the pics of the fightered RC51?
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May 15, 2014 04:43
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Z3n posted:Been busy, leaving town on work tomorrow. It's my wife's new bike So, having never ridden an RC51, is it everything I've ever dreamed it could be?
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May 15, 2014 12:15
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I'm probably going to the dark side and getting a 1290.
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Welp, wait until the fuckin monsoons come after it hasn't rained for months. Slides ahoy!
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Jun 3, 2014 02:07
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Do the weave and prepare to evade if there is a shadow of a doubt.
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Jun 11, 2014 00:06
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infraboy posted:I mean I had plenty of room to avoid being hit but she was absolutely oblivious to the motorcycle near her driver door as she changed lanes?
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Aug 22, 2014 22:42
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You have a lot of time to save the front from tucking under braking when straight up and down... now when you add lean angle. yeah, poo poo disappears into thin air.
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Nov 5, 2014 07:30
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Verge posted:I understand wanting to be a squid on some levels (stupidly quick, stunting) but ASPIRING not to wear gear? I wear a Forcefield L2K Evo every time I ride a street bike.
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Nov 30, 2015 16:39
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It's SO thin and it conforms so well to your body. A+, worth the money over the thick Alpinestars Bionic I originally rode with.
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Nov 30, 2015 17:29
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SaNChEzZ posted:Is your text weird, or is it me. loving Japanese encoding on the font. Really annoying.
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Dec 13, 2015 02:24
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Your ambition outweighed your talent You're not going to 'run out of tire' Also, you run harder compound race tires when it's cold. BlackMK4 fucked around with this message at 00:12 on Aug 20, 2016 |
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Aug 20, 2016 00:02
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Verge posted:what the actual gently caress? does anyone else think something's wrong with his brakes? doesn't explain how you lost control while engine braking, what are you riding? The only time I've locked the rear from engine braking alone that wasn't because of dropping a bunch of gears and dumping the clutch was riding Q2s in snow below 0f.
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Aug 20, 2016 20:05
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Seems like you've had a bunch of 'moments' lately, you should probably chill the gently caress out.
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Aug 22, 2016 20:45
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Weren't you the one talking about spinning up the rear across lines and stuff like last week?
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Aug 22, 2016 21:09
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It was cold and wet
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Oct 5, 2016 19:10
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I dunno if Ben is a goon, but here he is almost binning my Tuono https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTRmKs1ZJVk 
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Coydog posted:Last night I slowed to stop at a red light. Five seconds later I hear tire screeches, silence, then a maxima flies past me in my lane, and just blows through the red light. They were probably going 45, even after all the hard braking that they gave up on. I almost got done like this too. They brushed my elbow, went through the light, hit the red light camera on the other side of the intersection, and rolled over. I didn't wait around.
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