Here's a nice little thread from a local forum. This guy, Fixer 166 just got his license and now wants to hit 200kmph as soon as he can. I wonder how long he will live?
Not a fan of the VTX, honda does make some nice bikes though. Honestly I don't care what you ride, as long as your havin fun, giver.
Thanks for the welcome, all the haters can stop wasting their time.:motorbike
we're not hatin mate, It's just some people on here question the wisdom of aiming to go fast before building up time and skill on the bike.
To be fair they have a point but everyones got to make a judgement on levels of safety for themselves so only you can say if it's sensible to ride however you are.
This is true, what is my bike experiance? Dirt bikes..check, pedal bikes...check, raced downhill mtbs..check. I'm pretty comfortable on two wheels, and as was stated earlier, these bikes get to 200 pretty fast. It's nothing to wind one up to 210 for a second and then slow down. When I'm around other vechicals I ride like a grandpa, but if the chance comes up and I can, I'll ring it out. I love going fast. One more thing before I'm done on here, I sold the cbr a few days ago.
I don't think it's your abilities that is the question. It's hitting an unforeseen obstacle at the speed you're looking to reach that has people up in arms.
And as an afterthought, as much as some won't like it, you ride a bike, your part of the brotherhood, abliet you might be the younger brother we would like to beat up for being a jerk in public, but meh, your still one of us, and deep down I don't think any of us would like to see you hurt, hence us collectively telling you to pull your head in.
Yes, Fixxer, you do need to pull your head in and this is coming from someone who loves speed.
Abilities? Unless you have been to the track, you are clueless as to your abilities. The machines are incredible and they allow us to go amazing speeds but anyone can pull on the throttle and go fast. The trick is knowing your own limits and learning to ride at less than 80% of your limits, and being able to brake at 100% without crashing. Plus, if you're going to break records, you must know how to brake hard in a corner without standing up the bike.
Believe me, it's trickier than you think. Get some training from professional riders. While you're breaking records, your instructor will ride up to you, give you a big thumbs up, and then disappear because he's doubling your record!
And Dogtired is right and thoughtful to post that we are a brotherhood that rightly disciplines immortal upstarts.
So, you sold your CBR? What then? Another bike for you? A Triumph?
Let him have his fun [learning experience]. Four possible outcomes:-
1) He does it right or gets away with it.
2) He becomes a KSI statistic.
3) He screws up and suffers accordingly.
4) Someone else becomes a KSI statistic.
Thinking about the guy and this thread, however, reminded me of one of my favorite expressions: Only those who go too far know truly how far they can go.
Well I'm glad you all care so much to take the time to type such words of wisdom. Just so you know where I set records there is absolutly no chance of anything pulling/running out in front of me. Next I gotta start working on burn-outs. Any tips? Haha
I still say work on your braking. Did you know that to stop from 60 mph required 120 feet? Did you know that at 60 mph, you are traveling at 88 feet per second? Can you brake hard in a turn and still maintain your line? Do you know your braking limits?
How fast you go demonstrates the capabilities of your bike, not of you.
(just in case there might be some people here unfamiliar with this I'd interrupt with a public service, nanny state announcement - get someone who knows their stuff to teach you the technique first rather than just go out and try and work it out for yourself by trial and error, cause the error bit is the easy part of the lesson. )
OK listeners... feel free to resume trolling. Points for subtlety. Just remember, a clever troll is a thing of beauty, an obvious one is, well... dull. (Just a hint to our current provocateur)
120mph is not a big deal surley? (am I a Troll? dont think so)
In the UK, folk often give it a handfull and spear past 120/30/40 etc
I regularly did around 110 on a Transalp (when I could get away / survive it)...
A young lad, where I live, recently hit a foal at 30mph. It smacked the hell out of his car and would have written off a biker to be perfectly honest. I took the foal home with me and nursed it until 3am until I could take it to an equine hospital, where they put it to sleep (broken spine). But in fairness to the lad, the thing just jumped out on him in darkness after a shift at work.... it happen. Now; would it happen on my bike...... NO! or I pray that with God's good wiil it wont. I would be in the middle of the road and watching my speed... But on an open road, watching, assessing and cranking it wide open? 120mph here we come..often... God willing.
On the road, in NSW, doing a 120mph will result in instant disqualification of your licence (if you get caught), something I both neither want nor could afford.
but WOT on the track it tops out at around 160kmh (100mph) and gets there part way down the longer straights.
Roughly where the sports bikes start passing you in excess of 200kmh+ (120mph+). Sigh. But there are always the corners!
I'm clueless as to what a troll is but I have a feeling that Jonkster is saying that I am a troll.
Maybe he's missing what I'm saying?
This Fixer guy, a new motorcycle rider, seems to me to be irresponsibly setting out to break speed records. Like others have posted here, it's all fine and dandy that he'll likely crash and possibly die except that these consequences may compromise our freedoms because it's a lawyers' world we all live in.
I was simply pointing out the fact that any monkey can twist their wrists and that real skill involves squeezing the brake lever and therefore a truly skilled rider knows how to brake.
THe fact that motorcycles can go fast in a straight line has little to do with the rider.
Going straight bores me. Corners are where a practiced and skilled rider shines.
I made the comment about trail breaking was because I thought that newer riders may hear an experienced rider say you can brake when cornering and without understanding the technique go out and embarrass themselves.
The troll comment was aimed at a previous poster who was just looking to see if anyone would bite.
Sounds like I have only succeeded in my post in offending Dart and You
Then again maybe that makes me the troll!... in which case I can say my post was an inspired piece of trolling in the cunning disguise!
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