Great straights? We're bikers, FFS. What's all this nonsense about straights? Viva le corners! Eureka les twisties! Straights? I fart in their general interminably boring direction.
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Great straights? We're bikers, FFS. What's all this nonsense about straights? Viva le corners! Eureka les twisties! Straights? I fart in their general interminably boring direction.
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Most of the time you are riding upright and on straights so for all those who don't like straights why do you ride?
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nothing wrong with straights, my girlfriend is pretty straight. but If any of you try to ride her I wont be cool with it.....
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It may just because I ride a slow small-capacity thumper, but how very fucking boring. It's on the straights I remember again that having such low clip-ons really does make your wrists ache, and your back numb, and oh! that seat is really piss-poor, and that vibration through the tank just makes your thighs and knees go tingly.
Reminds me of how crude the so-called suspension is as well; in the corners it's fun and engaging and direct, but going straight ahead it just feels harsh and uncomfortable.
Yawn.
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Queen Street. If you time the lights at the top just right, you can jump K-rd
Originally Posted by Dean
Ok im coming out of my closet just this one time, I too kinda have a curvy figure which makes it worse beacuse im a guy. Well the waist kinda goes in and the bum pushes out. When I was in college the girls in my year would slap me on the arse and squeeze because apparently it is firm, tight...
I wear jeans
.....if I find this as a signature Ill hunt you down, serious, capice?
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The other clue is generally a motorcyclist talking about how great straight roads are.
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10Km???? Come on man, that's pretty far out there
Messure it next time out of interest sakes. The Ramarama straights on the southern motorway in or out of Auckaloffa are 5km's straight so 10 is just nuts.
Fuck a duck mate, sounds like its time for a new bike
Arrrrrr to love corners first you must love straightsThe other clue is generally a motorcyclist talking about how great straight roads are.
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yes Sir!
i could only get to 284 on my speedo at puke.
i gt at 19 more on the motorway on the way home.
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Only had the bike out puke twice (120 laps), but I definately didnt feel safe on the straight, the gutter/join in the middle and the kink, fun but not safe.The only straights I feel really safe on-- Back straight at Pukekohe and front straight at Teratonga -both good straights to find out about speed n stuff
waipu, piha,peak rd 4 corners from the golf club, miranda and ruawai all good fun. Straights are loads of fun if they have a smooth corner at the end.
Its fun as hell tryna pull up and gain the correct entry speed
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True... The only thing that makes a straight piece of road bearable is more speed so it's over faster. Funny though, the Police have actually managed to figure that out too, so guess where they tend to sit?
There was this piece of road I wanted to try the Hornet on. Not very wide but a couple of long straights, no houses, not much traffic, no shrubbery beside the road, nothing growing higher than about 20 centimetres.
Absolutely nowhere for anything bigger than a mouse to hide...
Everytime I've been there in that frame of mind, good tyres, and bike recently serviced etc, it has either been raining or blowing a gale...
Maybe in a month or so the VFR can try its luck.
Oh, it's a private road of course
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Hmmm....in the country.....Newdegate to Lake Grace....about 75km dead straight, with lots of hills, so it's sort of straight with curves. Good for plenty of air time if you get it right.........
Oh....wrong country......
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When visiting my son at Rangitata River mouth area I normally turn off at Hindes and head out there. Loooooooooooong straights, very little traffic.
Junior now reports seeing plain car parked observing the straights ! Bastards !
Had a dream once where my Z1000 was tapped out at 238 and a TLR pulled up beside me with the rider smiling before he left me in the dust.
I hate those dreams, they seem so real at the time....
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I love the corners as much as I love the straights to be honest, they each have there own appeal, as long as im riding im happy. Just because your 2 fiddy couldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding doesn't mean you have to take out your frustrations on a big sprotsbike rider now. This thread is about one aspect of riding, my bike does both, sorry bout yours
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