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Title: Moscow Motorcyclist's Crazy High-Speed Commute
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URL Source: http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/high_speed.html
Published: May 7, 2011
Author: Ivan the Biker
Post Date: 2011-05-07 18:04:07 by Flintlock
Keywords: White Line Fever
Views: 15468
Comments: 284
A 25-mile commute through Russian traffic and a powerful two-wheeled samurai sword, and you get a video showing the "quick" way to work. Sometimes this two-wheeler even becomes a one-wheeler as rare empty stretches of road disappear when the nose goes skyward. Hang On !! Poster Comment: This guy is nuts....love it (big screen version at link)
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#5. To: Flintlock (#0)
I ride motorcycles, am a member of the Iron Butt Association (over 1,000 miles in 24 hours) and have cruised for hours at 85-95 on the open, almost vacant, roads of the mid-west. This guy is not long for the world...it's seldom what YOU do that gets you killed...it's almost always something the other driver does that "gets you"...talking on cell phones, fiddeling with the radio, putting on make-up, reading a map...the list goes on and on....ALL these guys die eventually. you tube "ghost rider" if you want to see some 150-190 mph traffic dodging...and yep, I heard he's no longer with us. NOTHING comes close to the feeling of the open road on two wheels...I just like to keep it under 3 digits...but that's just me...I guess I really am getting old.
Yeah. I was watching that video and thinking to myself that all he needed was just one of the people driving a car or truck to lose their concentration for just a few seconds and drift over a foot or two--and then he's a dead man. It's stupid to ride that way in traffic.
I went through Atlanta 2 years ago and all I could think was "what the crap am I doing here!!! Traffic sucks and high speed traffic can be deadly...I just assume they're all out to kill you and drive accordingly.
I sold real estate in Atlanta for 19 years...I'm familiar with each and every one of the exits...it made me want to stop by the Varsity for a "dog". Is that you on that V-Max...if it is, slow that rascal down before you get yourself hurt/dead. Thanks for the video...that's my old stomping grounds!
Not this time. I've got an old one, an '88, and it blows my mind how fast it'll go.
they don't call them "crotch rockets" for nothing. I swear some of those things have afterburners...I was doing 90 mph on I-90 in S. Dakota and I had 2 riders pass me like I was in reverse...they must have been doing 135-150...It was NUTS... I only THOUGHT I was rolling along..,
We have had our bikes up to 135 on Hwy 70 with two riders. First time was on the '83 Suzuki 750. Second was with the Honda posted above and I'm not a small woman any more. I've found some good pics but have to transfer them from one computer to the other.
Summit on Hwy 4 about 9,000'. Lunch at the last Pismo Beach rally. At the hotel: ride to street vibrations:
Here are a couple of pics from Sturgis and Daytonia bike trips Key Largo
We have a beautiful country and you have a beautiful ride on which to see it. Thanks for sharing the slideshow.
Yes we do...and thank you for the other. I didn't realize you are married to Christine until reading these posts last night...a wonderful lady...I remember her well from one of the other sites.
NO! I meant that we both, and our respective spouses, live in Austin.
I meant that we both, and our respective spouses, live in Austin. oops! my bad :?) However I'm SURE Mrs. Lod is a WONDERFUL lady also!!
A brand-new 2010 that they're taking offers on is really, really tempting...
test ride one first...but from people that own them, once you try it out...be prepared to drive it home!
I stupidly clicked on the link and saw it - what a beauty, with a semi-auto tranny, and only 3 miles. Late last year we were discussing getting together at christine's gorgeous home, but right now, it is 96 and feels like 99: too damned hot to do anything but crank down the AC, and find a cool one.
that's ONE of the reasons I don't miss Atlanta...the heat was awful and the humidity worse. Those kind of tempertures suck it out of me too. And yes, the Can Ams are beautiful machines...
The other similarity between ATL and AUS is the on-going battle as to which is the allergy capital of America?
#122. To: Lod (#121)
Now that you mention it, I remember that being the case...fortunately, I'm not an allergy sufferer so it never really bothered me, but I certainly remember most of my friends had a horrible time with it. It was mostly indoors and a/c for me when the temps went north. Atlanta had 2 tempertures...hot and unbearable. It's not called Hotlanta for nothing...although that would also descibe a great majority of the fairer sex...that place had the most beautiful women of any place I've ever been...simply stunning!
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#15. To: Freedomsnotfree (#5)
I ride motorcycles, am a member of the Iron Butt Association (over 1,000 miles in 24 hours) and have cruised for hours at 85-95 on the open, almost vacant, roads of the mid-west. This guy is not long for the world...it's seldom what YOU do that gets you killed...it's almost always something the other driver does that "gets you"...talking on cell phones, fiddeling with the radio, putting on make-up, reading a map...the list goes on and on....
#18. To: James Deffenbach (#15)
#74. To: Freedomsnotfree (#18)
"what the crap am I doing here!!!
#79. To: Southern Style (#74)
#85. To: Freedomsnotfree (#79)
Is that you on that V-Max...
#87. To: Southern Style (#85)
I've got an old one, an '88, and it blows my mind how fast it'll go.
#91. To: Freedomsnotfree, critter (#87)
they don't call them "crotch rockets" for nothing. I swear some of those things have afterburners...I was doing 90 mph on I-90 in S. Dakota and I had 2 riders pass me like I was in reverse...they must have been doing 135-150...It was NUTS... I only THOUGHT I was rolling along..,
#92. To: Freedomsnotfree, critter (#91)
#105. To: Farm Friend (#92)
Key West
Traveling light in S. Dekota
Campsite in S. Dekota
Black Hills
Bad Lands
Sturgis
St Augustine FL
Down in the Keys on the way back to Daytonia - that's an old HS friend in the background with his streetglide 
#107. To: Freedomsnotfree (#105)
#108. To: Lod (#107)
We have a beautiful country
#110. To: Freedomsnotfree (#108)
#112. To: Lod (#110)
NO!
#115. To: Freedomsnotfree (#112)
#117. To: Lod (#115)
A brand-new 2010 that they're taking offers on is really, really tempting...
#118. To: Freedomsnotfree, riders, 4 (#117)
#119. To: Lod (#118)
#121. To: Freedomsnotfree (#119)
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