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Motorcycle Forum / General / Sportbikes / October 2004The Pace - Here it is again - this time on the front page of Sportrider.com
http://www.sportrider.com/ride/146_9306_pace/ Andrew 00 Daytona 00 Speed Triple > http://www.sportrider.com/ride/146_9306_pace/ "On the racetrack this rider would have tumbled into the hay bales, visited the ambulance for a strip of gauze and headed back to the pits to straighten his handlebars and think about his mistake. But let's get one thing perfectly clear: the street is not the racetrack." I had reason to consider this last week. I was on Angeles Crest, in a comfy 4WD, driving a little slower than usual due to the intermittent rain. I couldn't help but think about being on a bike, given that delicious stretch of asphalt. It was during this reverie that I rounded a blind corner to find a snow-plow in my lane, blade down and steaming right towards me. There was about 25 feet between us and I was able to swerve out over the double yellow to avoid the stupid mofo. Had I been on a bike I know that I would have been carrying more speed, and I would have been banked over hard to the right as this was an inside turn. I doubt I could have avoided the plow. This incident has me re-evaluating street riding -- especially the high-spirited type of riding I like to do. I am glad to read about the pace again, but I do question the worthiness of street riding for anything other than necessary transportation. Anyone want to buy a low-miles, hyper-maintained, pristine condition Sprint RS? >-- Peckham 2003 Gas Gas TXT200 Pro 2001 Gas Gas TXT280 2000 Triumph Sprint RS 2000 Suzuki SV650 1998 Kawasaki KLX300R 1993 Honda CR250R 1983 Peugeot 103 SP 1981 Peugeot 103 SP 1975 Bultaco Sherpa T > Had I been on a bike I know that I would have been carrying more speed, and > I would have been banked over hard to the right as this was an inside turn. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Anyone want to buy a low-miles, hyper-maintained, pristine condition Sprint > RS? I ride standards and cruisers for a reason. I like riding, and a nice pace to see the beauty this country has to offer is but one of the many perks of riding. All this just begs the question asked so, so, so often throughout mankind's history: Just because we *can* do something, should we? Slow down a little. Grins can, in fact, be had at speeds below 100mph. Honest. > > Had I been on a bike I know that I would have been carrying more speed, > and [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > Slow down a little. Grins can, in fact, be had at speeds below 100mph. > Honest. It's too easy and I have found the answer. Metzeler ME880 bricks on my SV. Start getting a little frisky, and those tires say "whoa there, no you don't". ;-)  SignatureTweak > Slow down a little. Grins can, in fact, be had at speeds below 100mph. > Honest. Grins can be found at 0 mph, and with no motorcycle involved. To each his own. Pete "Chris Hornberger" <chris@no_spam.chornbe.com> wrote in message > Slow down a little. Grins can, in fact, be had at speeds below 100mph. > Honest. Yep.....I go 50 on the scooter, 50 on the Harley......I pace my coffee stops about one an hour. My pace is watching the world go by and taking it all in. -- -=£emm¥=- GSCo. Stella FXST (For Sale) DR650 http://www.punkvoter.com/ www.dirtybush.com http://blog.johnkerry.com/ http://www.lp.org/ Hillary Clinton / Micheal Moore 2008 >"Chris Hornberger" <chris@no_spam.chornbe.com> wrote in message >> Slow down a little. Grins can, in fact, be had at speeds below 100mph. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >stops about one an hour. My pace is watching the world go by and >taking it all in. When the auto was first invented, people were afraid to go 30 mph. When the whole world is moving no faster than a horse can travel, your perceptions also move that fast. I grew up before computer games. The fastest hand/eye game we had was a pinball machine. But I'd already learned that the guy in the white hat was the good guy. I didn't need that explained to me. Now, with kids playing jet fighter flight simulaters, and having grown up on MTV editing, their speed of perception has increased dramatically. People today need far fewer clues to "take it all in." (& just because it's an entirely different experience from laying on your belly watching leafcutter ants do micro-engineering for an hour doesn't mean it's not just as valid.) When Chris asked "Just because we *can* do something, should we?", my first reaction was, "I can go slow, but should I?" My thrill in going fast is in the G forces. I don't find it especially fun going fast in a straight line, but if I can do do 25mph around 10mph turns, it's a rush. Turby the Turbosurfer > Anyone want to buy a low-miles, hyper-maintained, pristine condition Sprint > RS? [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > 1981 Peugeot 103 SP > 1975 Bultaco Sherpa T No, but that Gas Gas TXT200 looks like it might be fun! SignatureGopher 33 28 19N 112 01 49W '77 CB750K (Street) '78 CB750K (Cafe) '79 FLHassle (Gone) '00 ZG1000 (Sarge) '97 Ducati M750 (horse with no name, yet) Pull 'mychain' to reply >> Anyone want to buy a low-miles, hyper-maintained, pristine condition >> Sprint [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > No, but that Gas Gas TXT200 looks like it might be fun! Actually I have dibs on the RS if he really is ever selling it. We used to have matching yellow RS's and rode them together often. Then one afternoon, I totaled mine on a rat with antlers. I lust after his, for my Y2K Triumph Collection. SignatureAndrew 00 Speed Triple 00 Daytona "Peckham" wrote > Had I been on a bike I know that I would have been carrying > more speed, and I would have been banked over hard to the [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > again, but I do question the worthiness of street riding > for anything other than necessary transportation. On the other hand, if you were riding to the Vanishing Point, the problem would not be particularly significant. Let's not blame the machine because we don't ride it correctly... SignatureAllan Kirk, Megarider Organisation, (Saving motorcyclists' lives since 1971 ) www.megarider.com > http://www.sportrider.com/ride/146_9306_pace/ Good one Andrew... I subscribe to the pace... my favorites are... #1 if I judge the corner perfectly I will adjust with throttle alone... to fast and it's on the brakes... then it's time to give myself a good talking too... #5 I prefer to roll on the throttle well before the apex in an effort to also promote smoothness... #9 Riding for the group is paramount... so that no one feels like the pace has gone crazy... Larry L 94 RC45 #2 Have a wheelie NICE day... Lean & Mean it in every corner of your life... If it wasn't for us the fast lane would rust... V4'S are music to the seat of my pants... 1952 De Havilland Chipmunk... 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