Diesel Transit beats bike.

[Pathos]

Nah, I got that track on GT4, it ain't that hard to remember.
Only driving mission we can't complete damn it.

Whole family burst out laughing at the guy on the bike getting passed.

[limbimtimwim]

I've been waiting for the usual post Top Gear thread where everyone blasts bike hater Clarkson for sneering at bikes.We had that nice blonde [...] s cleaned up by a blonde in a diesel Transit....pity they didn't interview him afterwards,what sort of excuse could he dream up??

This months Performance Bikes magazine has a picture of a bus on the 'ring. Looks funny with it's "100" stickers on the back indicating the presence of a speed limiter.

Their hidden camera guy also managed to snap a guy who was getting his knee down getting passed by 3 cars.

There is also a great photo on page 81 (I think) of something that all bikers who smoke can relate too...

[James Deuce]

Their hidden camera guy also managed to snap a guy who was getting his knee down getting passed by 3 cars.

The physics of cars and bikes differ vastly.

[Lou Girardin]

Which is why I have to say I wasn't impressed with her rather arrogant, smug 'tude. I'd love to take her to say, Silverstone or somewhere and say, "ok smartarse, lets see how you go, and no you don't get 15000 practice laps either "

Well she is German, they tend to come across as arrogant.
And she'd probably still clean up most guys on any track. Car control is still car control wherever you are.

[chris]

You can get to know the circuit after about 50 laps. Doing one or two and then stopping will never help, but if you can pound around continuously for 10 laps or so it does start to become familiar. There are very few slow parts and brake problems are not an issue (in a race car anyway), getting one corner wrong will completely bugger up the next 3 or 4 simply due to the fact that you have lost so much corner speed.
There may be 170 or so corners, but many simply aren't and are just slight kinks easily taken flat, in the dry at least. Also don't forget that at one point on the circuit it can be dry and 10 km's further on it can be raining hard.

The most exciting circuit in the world definitely, but the best is Spa.

[Pixie]

Their hidden camera guy also managed to snap a guy who was getting his knee down getting passed by 3 cars.

"Getting his knee down" this activity is a load of crap.Pure posing.
I watched the IOM TT.
Suprise suprise,even doing record lap times the top riders rarely "get their knees down"

[Two Smoker]

"Getting his knee down" this activity is a load of crap.Pure posing.
I watched the IOM TT.
Suprise suprise,even doing record lap times the top riders rarely "get their knees down"

in correct, yes some of it is posing though... But you cant use IOMTT as an example as it is a different type of racing. On the race track i get my knee down mainly due to the fact it is sandwiched between the track and the fairing.

[cowpoos]

I have a special place in my heart for females like that
.

well i have a special place in my bed for a women like that....

[cowpoos]

"Getting his knee down" this activity is a load of crap.Pure posing.
I watched the IOM TT.
Suprise suprise,even doing record lap times the top riders rarely "get their knees down"

come and play a game of corner speed chicken with me one day....you will lose if your knee isn't down...

Don't go slagging people about posing...you know bloody well why its done....so don't be so ignorant...

[cowpoos]

Their hidden camera guy also managed to snap a guy who was getting his knee down getting passed by 3 cars.

cars can corner at much higher speeds than bikes...so it is quite possible you saw that...

I have problems when driving my car over the rimatakas with bikers getting in the way...not pulling over...etc...all the time...so its not un heard of!!!!

[cowpoos]

"Getting his knee down" this activity is a load of crap.Pure posing.
I watched the IOM TT.
Suprise suprise,even doing record lap times the top riders rarely "get their knees down"

mind you.....you do ride a bandit

[justsomeguy]

I'm sure in the right hands, a sports 250 could have kept up with the van. But she did bloody well to nail it as hard as she did. If I was on the bike a) that wouldn't have happened, but b), you'd make it a mission to at least salvage some of your rep, wouldn't you..?? .

Hahahaahaha - that was Sabine Schmitz, she woulda cleaned you out easy, even on your putry bike.

One of her jobs is as a consultant with cage companies telling them how to get thier cars to drive faster and handle better. That chick can drive