How not to ride on public roads!

[beet]

I admit to using the street as a race track, I'm on the 12 step program!

Me too but those guys are idiots for riding it like that. Stay in your lane and be polite to traffic.

The rest of it I don't have too much of a problem with.

Did the Gixxer Chatter the fron alot or what?

[beet]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt5pMfS1_Hc still the best IMO

[R1]

Id say all in all some pretty good riding even for a couple hooligans.

[beet]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXNReSswcDM

[Doc]

I admit to using the street as a race track, I'm on the 12 step program!

We need to get you further along in the program.

Step 1- We admitted we were powerless over our addiction - and could not use all the power.
Step 2 - Came to believe that getting to the track/school could restore us to sanity
Step 3 - Made a decision to turn our wallet and our lives over to the care of a trackday/motorcycle school organizer.
Step 4 - Made a searching and fearless inventory of motorcycling abilities
Step 5 - Admitted to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our addiction
Step 6 - Were entirely ready to have an instructor and lots of practice remove all these defects of character.
Step 7 - Humbly asked our instructor to remove our shortcomings
Step 8 - Made a list of all modifications we had done, and listed them on a motorcycle forum.
Step 9 - Made direct amends to people we slowed up in the corners wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
Step 10 - Continued to take personal inventory of your motorcycling habits and when we were wrong promptly admitted it (and got additional training)
Step 11 - Sought and meditation to improve our conscious contact with our motorcycle, looking only for knowledge of it's will for us and the power to carry that wheel out of the cornner.
Step 12 - Having had an awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other addicts, and to practice these principles in all our motorcycling

[sandman]

I admit to using the street as a race track, I'm on the 12 step program!

they weren't racing, they were ripping.

there was no competition.

the word is our track



Reader Complains About Unsafe Track In New York...

Copyright 2004, Roadracing World Publishing, Inc.

FIRST PERSON/OPINION

Via e-mail:

I am writing in the hopes that with the combined influence of Roadracing World and its loyal readership, something can be done about the horrendous conditions at my local track here in upstate New York.

Last Sunday morning, with the long-awaited return of the warm weather, I gleefully pulled on my racing leathers and headed out to my local track, a 54-turn, 14 mile road course not far from my house.

The conditions were abysmal. I'd hoped that the owners would use the winter to improve the track conditions. Sadly, that has not been the case.

To begin with, I have to say that I've ridden plenty of tracks in this country and I've yet to see another one with oncoming traffic. Cars and trucks speeding past, honking, skidding, giving me the finger - I can't tell you what that does to your line selection.

What was once my favorite part of the track, a fast left-right-left chicane leading onto a long right hand high-speed sweeper, is now inexplicably home to a brand-new strip mall.

That's just plain dangerous.

Adding insult to probable injury, track officials (without rider input, mind you) have determined that the increased traffic from the new Chuck E. Cheese necessitated a stoplight right at the end of the chicane. One red light and you can kiss pole position goodbye.

Is it any wonder they're holding GP's in Qatar?

There was a dead squirrel in Turn 13, an oil spill in Turn 27, a deer crossed in front of me in the middle of the 110-mph back straight, and right at the end of a flying lap, an old lady in a Subaru backed right out onto the track at Turn 47 where she lives with her husband who mows the lawn every Sunday and sprays grass clippings all over the racing line. The track is no place for those kinds of obscenities, Lady.

To make matters worse, there were no cornerworkers to be found and the only ambulance I saw arrived a full 15 minutes after I T-boned a back-marker minivan full of church-goers at the end of the front straight.

Wasted a brand new set of slicks, too, goddamn it.

Shalom Auslander
West Hurley, New York

[bfriend]

Here's the video beet posted in it's entirety.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...0512099685914#

[LowSider]

Only thing that would make those guys cooler on the street would be if they were runnign slicks

[CBR929RE]

the gsxr seemed to be sliding the rear out alot backing it in style haha... skilled riders but not mentally there for riding like that on the street... i think i shat myself like 8 times during those 5 minutes.

was it on purpose? most of the time it seemed like shitty downshifts or getting on the throttle too hard. I was waiting for him to be shot over an oncoming car or for either of them to go down.

[Jason P.]

quite dumb. but i do have to agree i thought the GSX-R was gonna eat it in some of those corners!

[aLive]

Here's the full vid that some of you are posting clips from: http://video.google.ca/videoplay?doc...astbike&hl=fr#. This is another one made by the same guys: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ_GVQRRCGg

As for the OP: crazy ass Greeks again ... not sure why but people in Europe tend to go ape shit on roads half the size of those here in the States. Must be the water they drink there. Guys can ride tho.

[beet]

I'm done got a cruiser, I go slow & still have fun. I even let cars pass me now!

We need to get you further along in the program.

Step 1- We admitted we were powerless over our addiction - and could not use all the power.
Step 2 - Came to believe that getting to the track/school could restore us to sanity
Step 3 - Made a decision to turn our wallet and our lives over to the care of a trackday/motorcycle school organizer.
Step 4 - Made a searching and fearless inventory of motorcycling abilities
Step 5 - Admitted to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our addiction
Step 6 - Were entirely ready to have an instructor and lots of practice remove all these defects of character.
Step 7 - Humbly asked our instructor to remove our shortcomings
Step 8 - Made a list of all modifications we had done, and listed them on a motorcycle forum.
Step 9 - Made direct amends to people we slowed up in the corners wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
Step 10 - Continued to take personal inventory of your motorcycling habits and when we were wrong promptly admitted it (and got additional training)
Step 11 - Sought and meditation to improve our conscious contact with our motorcycle, looking only for knowledge of it's will for us and the power to carry that wheel out of the cornner.
Step 12 - Having had an awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other addicts, and to practice these principles in all our motorcycling

[duganc1717]

Classic Fast Bikes video's!

[hondarider102]

video link doesnt work??

[JonT]

Here's the full vid that some of you are posting clips from: http://video.google.ca/videoplay?doc...astbike&hl=fr#. This is another one made by the same guys: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ_GVQRRCGg

As for the OP: crazy ass Greeks again ... not sure why but people in Europe tend to go ape shit on roads half the size of those here in the States. Must be the water they drink there. Guys can ride tho.

i like the camera in that first video.... guy had me worried with that wide turning... came close to the edge/wall enough times.

[butcher bergs]

Did the Gixxer Chatter the front alot or what?

The front?

[Doc]

The front?

Yes the front. It is evident he was sliding the rear but I swear the front was chattering.

[Paul_E_D]

The chatter was the rear on downshifts IMO. He missed quite a few turn in points because of it. The Ducati didn't chatter once btw! Neener

[brady]

The chatter was the rear on downshifts IMO. He missed quite a few turn in points because of it. The Ducati didn't chatter once btw! Neener

wait, who's on first? no really, who was in front, the Gixxer or the Duc?

[Paul_E_D]

The Duc was in front in the first vid.

[brady]

The Duc was in front in the first vid.

OK, then reverse my comments about the Duc, of course it was the Gixxer being sloppy! And the Duc was having some fun backing it in....

[Doc]

The chatter was the rear on downshifts IMO. He missed quite a few turn in points because of it. The Ducati didn't chatter once btw! Neener

So the rear was hopping? That would explain it. Thanks.

[Kham]

cool! that's the way to do it. isn't how we roll here?

[2talltlr]

GREAT ROAD!!!!!

[spicy]

yeah, those agios ioannis dudes are pretty insane. crazy greeks...


repost cuz it's old as fuck, but i guess most is partially forgiven as such a ridiculous video deserves being revisited every so often...