Orange Street Triple R on Akaroa Highway? (2 January)

[Hads]

I was riding an orange bike back from Akaroa that day, not a triple R though, nor am I a great rider.

[Crasherfromwayback]

I was riding an orange bike back from Akaroa that day, not a triple R though, nor am I a great rider.

But did you enjoy the ride? THE most important bit!

[jasonu]

Sorry can't agree with you there. Most semi modern even semi sporty cars can go round corners faster than most motorcycles. They don't have to be full on race reps to do so. But if they are really full on...a bike won't see which way one goes through twisty bits sorry.

Tru dat sista!

[Crasherfromwayback]

Tru dat sista!

Yep. Learnt that lesson in person a while ago...and I like having the odd quick punt from time to time.

[Hads]

But did you enjoy the ride? THE most important bit!

Yeah, it was a good ride, just took it easy on the downhill.

[Crasherfromwayback]

Yeah, it was a good ride, just took it easy on the downhill.

And there you have it. It's how it should be. You're happy at your speed...the geezer in the op was prob doing likewise. Fuck everyone else and their opinions.

[dangerous]

took it easy on the downhill.

ya what... with a old battleship like mine ya make the best of a downhill, only way to get any kinda speed up, best part LOL... speaking of which, everone off 75 the roads all mine

[Big Dave]

Dont think he dunna skid, nowhere does it mention he dunna skid

No skid - no cred. It's the craw.


'You don't speak good english like what I do.' Wise, E. c1970.

[Robbo]

And there you have it. It's how it should be. You're happy at your speed...the geezer in the op was prob doing likewise. Fuck everyone else and their opinions.

Great post Pete, could'nt agree more

[pritch]

Sorry can't agree with you there. Most semi modern even semi sporty cars can go round corners faster than most motorcycles. They don't have to be full on race reps to do so. But if they are really full on...a bike won't see which way one goes through twisty bits sorry.

Interesting. I suppose I could punt the Subaru over Mt Messenger on a stop watch, then come home and get the bike and do it again. Have the feeling I'd be braver in the car though.

[Crasherfromwayback]

Interesting. I suppose I could punt the Subaru over Mt Messenger on a stop watch, then come home and get the bike and do it again. Have the feeling I'd be braver in the car though.

Well if you look at an F1 car...it's a fair bit slower in acceleration than a Moto GP bike. But it slaughters it lap times wise. So the same applies to road cars/bikes but on a lesser scale.

[Muppet]

man... this is more like a bloody old ladies knitting club, has KB become this or was it always and Ive turned into a grumpy old ginger prick, ohh wait... I always was. These topics used to only get as far south as the bombays.

You road edge debri girls... what do ya do when you get to road works or a shingle road??? get off and push!
When people say 'to the road edge" I thats I dont think they mean to the farking grass verge... left hand tyre track perhaps aye.

Muppit ya muppit, yeah I know we have had our differances, but ya right about the triple R's lines. I promote similer lines cos with out seeing the vid I cant really comment as we all have different ideas of 'safe' or lines.
I believe in 'late apex' learnt this years ago on the track, so race lines and road lines can be mixed to get a ideal line... REMEMBER what works for me may not for another, we all have our ideas, basicly right hander sit in the left tyre track, lefties sit in the right tyre track, I have had many a sucess with rider coaching one girl is now suceeding in the Aussie SBK, not saying that is all my doing.

mupet says, the triple R was fast, Cesna says fast if dangerous... so is walking, best ya stay at home, no wait the ceiling might fall in.

Well I only reed the 1st 2 pages duno what else was said in 12 pages... might go hooning 75, come chase me Mupet... if the bitch of a thing starts.


PS: you debri worry worts... whose the boss you or ya bike?
if ya get cought up in shit take charge (altho ya should have never not been in charge) and ride out of it, bike goes were you tell it.

Ha! You're a good bastard really, Rastus' told me, so it must be true. The chap I was following was simply smooth and fast. He wasn't going flat out and taking risks. By sticking to (an obvious) system of cornering on every corner he/she made ground on me. They left the turning until as late as possible, didn't touch the brakes as they were in the correct gear and accelerated out of the corners at a constant rate. Maybe it was Keith Code on Holiday? I'm stunned how I simply praise a guys riding and it causes a right kerfuffle!

As far as this staying to the left for a right hand bend, for example, lark goes, I saw a very graphic example of why this is a good idea a while ago. Akzle I'm using big words here so pay attention!

I was on the back of an instructors bike in the north island and we were going through the Pahiatua track. The instructor rode like our friend on the Street Triple R. He rode at a gear higher than me, 20 km/h faster than me and was 500 mm further to the left/right than me in corners, he also accelerated out corners HARD and used clutchless up shifts. All while listening to his MP3 player and radioing to the others on the course and cracking jokes with me. I shat myself, thinking we were going to die and had planned how I would dive roll off the bike if we binned it. I'm not kidding.

Well, we came upon a right hand downhill corner and were mm from the fog line when one of the others decided to hug the centre line. Nek minite he hit a patch of gravel in the centre of the road. Since a car was coming towards him at the time, he had no choice but to hit the gravel. He fell off and slid for some distance, while his bike slid then flipped into the air landing upside down. Words like "shit" & "fuck" came out of my mouth. We were able to stop 10 metres short of where he ended up, simply because we were a metre further to the left and saw the gravel way before he did.

During the ride, when we got stuck behind traffic and the guys riding one up asked us if we'd like them to pull over so we could catch up, the instructor said "No you keep going I'll be with you in a few minutes". I thought "Oh for fucksakes" and went through my dive roll escape plan again. This guy was simply smooth and fast and consistent with every corner, I'll never forget what I learnt in the few hours it took to ride from Ohakea to Wellington that day.

The End.

PS when we eventually rode through the Rimutaka's in the wet, he didn't change a thing about his riding or slow down, managed to avoid a number of oil spills as a result.

[Katman]

If you had to sacrifice a bit of corner speed or cornering position, which would it be?

[george formby]

If you had to sacrifice a bit of corner speed or cornering position, which would it be?

Shirley you adjust a bit of one to get a better other as conditions or circumstances dictate?

[caseye]

Speed mate, you can always get it back on the next one and you don't end up dead.