Highsided today.

[JeffL]

Yup, I managed to put myself over the top of an XR50 today. I walked away unscathed thanks to my winter cap, leather driving gloves which are now completely ruined, pea coat, sweat pants over my jeans, over which I had those Icon shin/knee armor over, and my New Balances.

Quite possibly the most fun little bike ever, along with most dangerous.

[breakdirt916]

lol...yes, be very careful on those...my friend and I have been on street bikes since '03 and within 5 minutes of riding my XR80, my 6'5 buddy highsided it into snow and ended up with cuts and bruises all over

glad you didn't highside the fzr on the street!

[OreoGaborio]

me too, considering he sold his FZR a while ago

[JeffL]

5 minutes? Took me maybe 2-3 minutes on it the first time to land a wheelie with the bars cocked and throw myself over the front of the bike. My shoulder kind of hurts from that one I think.

I'm just waiting for the video to be uploaded.

[bigred875]

hahaha

[Awesome]

I'm only smiling because of the drugs.

[Currently]

OK ... wtf happened ?

For those of us not in the loop.

[bigred875]

50's bite hard

[Awesome]

50's happen.

[JeffL]

Yeah, the one thing that amazed me yesterday was that no one was seriously injured. Especially after snapping down a few wheelies too hard with the rear brake and going right over the front end.

[Paul_E_D]

Someone broke their neck a few years ago in a pitbike race at Loudon. Bad riding is dangerous no matter what you're on!

[stevecbr900rr]

WOW,...Im staying away from the peewees.

[KB]

I've goten hurt more on a 50 than any other piece of machinery.

KB

[smf]

they're f-ing dangerous... of course the big issue is usually the amount of alcohol consumed immediately before someone says "hey! let's fire up all the mini's!"

[OreoGaborio]

they're f-ing dangerous... of course the big issue is usually the amount of alcohol consumed immediately before someone says "hey! let's fire up all the mini's!"

I remember really slammin into one trash can in the pit garages one night, but Peter Kates told me i nailed like 7 or 8 of em

[TheIglu]

Oh shit, I can't wait to bring my pitbike up to Louden. Race weekends will be exponentially more fun

I was riding around on Sunday in the back yard and the landlord's wife came up that night. She said they were laughin wicked hard watching me buzz around in the snow with a huge shit eatin grin on my face. DAMN these things are fun

[JeffL]

Oh shit, I can't wait to bring my pitbike up to Louden. Race weekends will be exponentially more fun

I was riding around on Sunday in the back yard and the landlord's wife came up that night. She said they were laughin wicked hard watching me buzz around in the snow with a huge shit eatin grin on my face. DAMN these things are fun

Yeah, we took it in the snow too, except it had a knobby on the front, and a street tire in the rear. So you can imagine how that went.

[TheIglu]

I don't need to, I have a nearly new knobby on the front and a bald knobby on the back

[breakdirt916]

Yeah, we took it in the snow too, except it had a knobby on the front, and a street tire in the rear. So you can imagine how that went.

Actually, isn't it better to have better traction on the front?

When you're riding in the snow, sliding the back end out is how all your riding ends up being.

But when you lose the front, you're going down.

[Awesome]

In the snow and on the ice you're sliding them both around. Makes great practice for pushing limits on the asphault.