Quote Originally Posted by Dafe
It would be very interesting to see how your perspective changes once you've learned to become a very good rider and tap into the knowledge and experience of the many excellent riders on this site.

It's something that will take a few years to learn. You can't learn to ride correct lines overnight. It has to become natural to you first. You have to learn to do it from habit.

There are people on the site here, who get in the zone on the race track only.
What you haven't noticed is that "riding in the zone", Can't be done where you have continuous oncoming traffic. If you need to keep looking to see what cars look like muftis etc, then you've lost any chance of your mind being able to concentrate deep enough on the road only.

I've found zenning work for me, only on desserted back roads. It's also next to impossible to achieve on a 50kph road.

But I appreciate your point of view about speeding, but I won't be rushing to get my gixxer restricted to 101kph.
Hey look buddy, i was just making a joke... (note the quoted speed of 420)
You are no doubt a much more experienced rider than me (older), but i have also had zen experiences on the roads... Up the rimutakas, up the port hills. I have found that i zen out on the roads that i know well... I have ridden them enough to know what i'm doing on them and what speeds and lines to take. In this situation i feel 'as one' as other people have said. The only thing that is close to zenning on a 50kph road is sleeping (also refer to the joke about going 420 in a 50). I wont be getting my CBR restricted either, in fact i may upgrade before long (heres hoping). I would like to think that my lines are improving (slowly) and that my confidence on a bike is increasing and I am getting closer to my limits, and that my technique and control of the bike is improving and will no doubt continue to improve as i ride.
I look forward to getting the cash money to throw into track riding but until then i will just hit it up the hills and backcountry roads.

Thanks though for your judgements of my personality, skill level and attitude towards speeding, based on a joke. THey weren't a waste of time at all.