KOBA FTW!!!!!Originally Posted by Coyote
Koba on his old GSX was the only one that stayed on 2 wheelsHe is definitely NOT a cock
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KOBA FTW!!!!!Koba on his old GSX was the only one that stayed on 2 wheels
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DebatableKOBA FTW!!!!!
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OR... Coyote was riding above his own limits and fucked up.
Isnt he looooooovely....KOBA FTW!!!!!
See my first comment of the post....Debatable
My nemesis corner, hmm, probably the turn off from taranaki st into vivian st as thats where I was blown of my KR at least twice while turning the corner. The other corner is the tight left hander (hairpin) on Piecock, just after you pass the sight seeing stop as you head toward the beach.... I just cant get that corner right!
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It's not so much a particular corner, but any random corner. I find that if there's summat tricky about it, like it's off-camber, slippery, bumpy, obscured, or whatever, I can end up looking at the corner (or the road surface, or both), and not through the corner, and it stuffs it up. One corner that took me ages to master was on the way to work - right-angle left, changing elevation, bump in mid corner. It wasn't till I got a new rear shock and set it up properly, and had the Storms fitted, that I was able to just corner, and not think about it.
On the way home, there's an intersection that's tricky, because it's just by the traffic lights, the cars in the right-hand lane sometimes stop and give way, but the ones in the left don't, and there's large, slippery "KEEP CLEAR" painted all over the road. So, it's not until I can stop trying to look at the clear road between the white paint, AND the oncoming traffic, AND the cars wating to come out of the sidestreet, that I can actually look where I want to go and open the throttle. Up to that point, everything just hangs in the balance, on the verge of potential crisis....
It still amazes me (after so many, many years of riding) just how HUGE a difference it makes where you are looking when riding.
... and that's what I think.
Or summat.
Or maybe not...
Dunno really....
Po ta toes
That's a bloody good point Viffer, thinking about that stupid lumpy off camber corner I hate, I can see myself now sitting here riding it and where am I looking? At the big hump in the road (so the road) or at the arse end of the car I'm trying to get round before the passing lane ends! Good point, thanks, look around/through the corner (and not at the on coming car either!!) Cheers.
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10 points! You're tied for first with hXc
I now ride well below my limits and it's become very boring. Though taking the bus at the moment is worse. Last time I went for a fun ride was November and that's when everyone pointed out my bike's shock was busted
OMG, WTF......OIGI LOL
Coming from Porirua to the Hutt, at the top of the hill before you drop down to SH2, over the crest theres an easy right hander that drops into a decending lefty. I hate that corner for the simple fact that if you fail to take the corner or come off and slide straight ahead your gonna go through a cheescutter! I tend to slow right down keep to the left of the lane and take it easy.
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It's a bit corrugated there too.
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So not Pothole then?
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Eww yeah, Piecock Hill road, heading back to Pahatanui, about half way along there is a blind right hander that has some really yucky patching I think it is right on the apex (well, my apex anyway) and everytime I ride it I'm aware that it's somewhere along there and then I hit it and my tyres get stuck in between the ruts and wants to spit me off, bloody stupid road. I'm pretty sure I should just gas it, but never entirely sure if it'll help me get out or just spit me off quicker. grrrrrr
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How about the first right hander on the cliff hanger ?
I can go through it tapped out on the SV but the thousand......
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And the corner just before the bridge. That was pretty scary coming up over that... Then there was the corner after the bridge, I had my first tank slapper there the surface was pretty shitty form what I remember. Or maybe I was just riding above my own limits.....
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Here's some helping out as I mentioned at the start.Eww yeah, Piecock Hill road, heading back to Pahatanui, about half way along there is a blind right hander that has some really yucky patching I think it is right on the apex (well, my apex anyway) and everytime I ride it I'm aware that it's somewhere along there and then I hit it and my tyres get stuck in between the ruts and wants to spit me off, bloody stupid road. I'm pretty sure I should just gas it, but never entirely sure if it'll help me get out or just spit me off quicker. grrrrrr
If you're not confident about gassing and turning because of the surface, get the bike slowed down and pointed where you need it to go (so hopefully you would already be looking in that direction) this way you're free to deal with the issue and don't have to concentrate on where you need to go, carry steady throttle until you've cleared whatever it is that bothers you, then accelerate as normal from there. If you can't avoid (eliminate) the risks then minimise the risk and start over when the canvas for carving is clear.
$0.02 FWIW.
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Somewhere between Kawakawa Bay and Clevedon...
Right here, when heading in the northwest direction toward Clevedon.
At least, I think that's the one. The location and shape of the road look right.
It's the only seriously evil blind decreasing-radius corner I've ever come across that truly deserves such a description. It's very difficult to ride that road in that direction for the first time and not end up on the wrong side of the centerline when you hit that corner.
It's slightly uphill, dreadful shitty surface, narrow road which is often damp due to a full sky-obscuring wad of native bush covering the hill it's on.
Vicious.
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I reckon the left right combo just before the long uphill right to the finish was the most itimidating, the road drops away on the outside of the right so you can't see where the edge of the road is and someone parked a Goldwing? there so I kept looking at that stupid thing!
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