When motorcyclists treat public roads like their private racetracks

[jrandom]

It's just stupid when people don't know the difference between a race track and the road... and don't know how to set up suspension for each accordingly.

When the primary purpose of a bike is to be ridden on the track and it has suspension adjusters that are not easily accessible, folk with slightly less tiny minds than yourself of sympathetic bent to a poor muppet like me might be expected to sympathise with a casual rider who doesn't bother to find entirely separate configurations and change them every time the bike goes out on a different surface.

[Mikkel]

We're talking suspension in cars all of a sudden. Let's get this thing back on-topic! (Or at least make the discussion more interesting than talking about how much money is thrown at suspension - car suspension is "slightly" more complicated than that.)

Yup, on Thursday last week near Timaru on the passing lanes, watched a gaggle of cars passing a large truck - but obviously not quick enough for one Einstien who crossed the double yellow lines into the passing lane for traffic going the other way and passed everybody, truck, other cars, the lot!!

One question - was the road ahead clear and straight? In that case I'd say I see heaps more dangerous maneuvers every day - all done well within the legal boundaries of the law. Passing lane etiquette in NZ is abhorrent and you know that as well as I do.

Next time you sit stuck in traffic due to the sheeple - take some comfort that some people do think outside the box.

[MIXONE]

Yup, on Thursday last week near Timaru on the passing lanes, watched a gaggle of cars passing a large truck - but obviously not quick enough for one Einstien who crossed the double yellow lines into the passing lane for traffic going the other way and passed everybody, truck, other cars, the lot!!

How much did that cost him when you caught up?Did you catch up?

[scumdog]

How much did that cost him when you caught up?Did you catch up?

Nah, in my hot rod about 1/4+ of a km behind.

I guess he got past safely but not a good move - not only did he have a large truck and all the cars passing it and already on front of it to out-accelerate (and it sure as hell didn't look like any form of land-missile from where I could see) but he would have been coming in from the side which other drivers would not have expected a car to appear from.

[dipshit]

When the primary purpose of a bike is to be ridden on the track and it has suspension adjusters...

Oh no. Someone does a couple of track days and suddenly they are a motorcycle racer with a race bike.

[FilthyLuka]

dudes! i just had an idea, see. As someone mentioned earlier, a three stop class... Well, what about a motorcycle relay Get yourself, and two buddies, position yourself around the Coro loop, ride to stop one, tag, other dude rides to stop 2, tag ect. ect.

p/t

[McDuck]

dudes! i just had an idea, see. As someone mentioned earlier, a three stop class... Well, what about a motorcycle relay Get yourself, and two buddies, position yourself around the Coro loop, ride to stop one, tag, other dude rides to stop 2, tag ect. ect.

p/t

hell i am in

[FilthyLuka]

When the primary purpose of a bike is to be ridden on the track

Not talkin about the 1400 here are ya J?

[jrandom]

Oh no. Someone does a couple of track days and suddenly they are a motorcycle racer with a race bike.

Eh?

You talking about me?

I've never raced a motorcycle in my life, and make no claim to being a rider of any merit whatsoever. I can barely keep the bloody things upright. It was a cause for significant celebration when I got my knee down at the last trackday I attended.

I do happen to own a 'race bike', though, for whatever that's worth.

Last year, I bought an 8-year-old SRAD that had all of 19,000km on the clock due to spending most of its life in a garage or on the track, and I've hardly touched it since.

None of its suspension setup was done by me or for me.

Bit of a cunt, really, aren't you?

[jrandom]

Not talkin about the 1400 here are ya J?

No, but come to think of it, a GSX1400 racing class would be totally awesome.

[Edbear]

Yup, on Thursday last week near Timaru on the passing lanes, watched a gaggle of cars passing a large truck - but obviously not quick enough for one Einstien who crossed the double yellow lines into the passing lane for traffic going the other way and passed everybody, truck, other cars, the lot!!

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...ad.php?t=54437

Something like this, I guess...

[kiwifruit]

Eh?

You talking about me?

Bit of a cunt, really, aren't you?

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[jrandom]

*videoZ*

Yeah, a little bit, aye.

[dipshit]

Last year, I bought an 8-year-old SRAD that had all of 19,000km on the clock due to spending most of its life in a garage or on the track, and I've hardly touched it since.

Oh, I see. I thought you were talking about your 1400.

[jrandom]

Oh, I see. I thought you were talking about your 1400.

Engage brain before typing, dude.

The GSX1400's suspension adjusters are big fat hand-twiddleable knobs hanging off the side of the bike. If the stock springs and dampers wasn't so damn squishy and coarse that everything needed to be on full crank all the time, it'd be great for adjusting between one up / two up / road / track etc as required.

The GSXR's Ohlins unit, on the other hand, is tucked away under the rear subframe and requires certain tools to change the settings on.

When in doubt, you do tend to default to being a meanie bum, don't you?