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Old school riding style
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 8:25 pm
by hjr1100s
There's a lengthy thread on Pelican about cornering techniques. I don't want to start it over here
.... but I would like to share my contribution to that thread...
It's a video clip of me on a Assen track day being overtaken by a guy on a 30yr old Kawasaki 3 cilinder two stroke. He's showing how it's done: riding fast without making a fuzz or act like a monkey on a bike.
Enjoy:
http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=CSYGd2Kieyo
HJ
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 10:22 pm
by f90x
very good, i don't get off either. sorry, it's started
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 11:33 pm
by gus
Great video.
Although i think he looked good because the other riders around him were a bit crap.
gus
Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 8:00 am
by Dog Tyred
After riding the same bike for 30 years I'm no surprised he can ride it well!!
Nice footage by the way
Nu2
Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 1:26 pm
by f90x
I'd like to think that he's an old club racer and his KH has got a Harris frame and full Ohlins and he's out at every oportunity making fun of superbike riders.
But it's more than likely modern tyres and a great talent. He'd run rings around me, that's for sure.
Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 4:07 pm
by hjr1100s
Here's another clip. This guy knows how to ride a R1200S. Fast .. and smooth... no need to do on-board acrobatics.
http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=-7aPS-xmVow
Here's the layout of the track:
http://www.tt-assen.com/cms/includes/ex ... 8c539.html
Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 4:37 pm
by gus
Thanks HJ.Again an excellent video.Although this rider does shift his body weight unlike the guy on the "widow maker".Assen is such a great track.
gus
Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 8:07 am
by RoLoo
hjr1100s wrote:
...here's another clip. This guy knows how to ride a R1200S. Fast .. and smooth... no need to do on-board acrobatics...
...if you hear that Yapanese-on-board-camere-bike screaming, it gives you an idea of the speed they are doing...
...strange thing is though ; a boxer doesn't give you the feeling it is going THAT fast...
Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 7:01 pm
by Harry Lime
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Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 9:09 pm
by hjr1100s
Can't trace his name or face, but notice how, in the second video, he's in front at the very begin ..... and NOT being passed later on. Not by the guy on the BMW, nor by the camera guy!!!!
HJ
Cornering old school style
Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 9:11 pm
by boxerscott
Hey Lars i like you matey you seem a decent egg (I would never have admitted to that) i have never done assen but would like to if there was some freindly hospitality at other end?
Cornering old school style
Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 9:14 pm
by boxerscott
Feck! I keep doing that
I meant HJ not lars sorry (had a good glass of Scotlands Finest) Chris.
Re: Cornering old school style
Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 11:46 pm
by gus
boxerscott wrote:(had a good glass of Scotlands Finest) Chris.
you been on the irun bru?
It will be buckfast next.
gus
Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 2:14 pm
by Harry Lime
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Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 6:18 pm
by nab 301
Holy s*hit ,
(not that I could do it justice) For the engineering / machining alone I want one ...(rushes out to buy lotto ticket)
. Just looking at the (undamped?) rev counter as it gets in the powerband and flies around the dial
Nigel B