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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: 17955
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:
How many miles per pound of rice do you get on that thing?
oh no...now you've done it!!! Troubles brewing...I can see it from here...LOL
He doesn't understand that our VTX is purely American made. Harley's are not. As my husband says, twice the bike at half the price.
Even Sonny Barger quit Harley, he's on a Victory Vision because he said the amount of miles he rides each year makes a Harley worthless upon trade-in (for him). Read it in the April 2011 issue of Twisted South. That's my contribution to this thread :-)
honestly...I like all bikes. But the one thing Harley definitely has over other bikes is trade-in value, even the older ones are highly sought after. 30 year old Harleys are still looked upon as an American Classic...and they are. Having said all that...ALL modern bikes are so much better made than they were 15 years ago it's really kinda pointless arguing who makes "the best". We all ride what we ride because we like to ride it. The Japanese HAVE done a wonderful job of capturing the allure of the Harley V-Twins...I think the Shadow is a GREAT looking bike...and from a distance, I have a hard time telling what's a Harley and what isn't.
width of the tire is a good clue.
I've got to confess, I've been looking at a Royal Enfield Bullet Classic just because they're different. I know, they're built in India....
#192. To: X-15 (#189)
cool. retro.
I read an article on those not long ago in "Rider" magizine. It was a VERY positive article.
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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)
#95. To: farmfriend (#92)
#101. To: Flintlock, farmfriend (#95)
How many miles per pound of rice do you get on that thing?
#141. To: Freedomsnotfree, Flintlock, (#101)
oh no...now you've done it!!! Troubles brewing...I can see it from here...LOL
#161. To: farmfriend (#141)
#166. To: X-15 (#161)
#179. To: Freedomsnotfree, X-15 (#166)
and from a distance, I have a hard time telling what's a Harley and what isn't.
#189. To: farmfriend, Freedomsnotfree, Lod, Flintlock (#179)
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