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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: 16320
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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#6. To: Flintlock (#0)
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I went to you-tube and found this one on the ghost rider...he's legendary among the motorcycle adrenaline junkies, he routinely hits 150-180 mph in traffic...like I said, I heard he is no longer with us...don't know for sure though
We can only hope that his life policy was current. RIP
...and that it covers suicide...this is crazier than sky diving without a "chute" :?)
Yes. I'd love to have a bike again, but Mrs.L says NO! So that's that.
In the DFW Metroplex the EMT's/cops call the sport-bike riders "organ donors".
With good reason.
usually not much left to salvage...
Here's mine...
Now that is totally sweet. Consider some additional braking capability on the front, but, my goodness, that's a gorgeous ride. Thanks for sharing all the pics here.
You'd love my 72, single disk front, drum brake rear. Can't go fast cuz it will never stop. :)
Well, there's that safety factor. Slowly and safely out there, Critter.
Built for slow: The top ends gets freshened up this week, and the sheet metal is getting a quick repaint. I never did like the way my ghost flames looked... I originally did it all over back in 2000, but it is starting show its age again.
Nice bike critter...makes me wish I had saved my '73...something cool about those older bikes. Life is not a journey to the grave With the intention of Arriving safely in a pretty And well preserved body, But rather to skid in broadside, Thoroughly used up, Totally worn out, And loudly proclaiming, WOW !!!! What a ride!
Thanks. My daughter is going to inherit this one. I was at the HD dealer the other day, looking at new Road Kings, but you know what, that just isn't me. I like my old clunker. I like breaking down where ever I go, and having to mend things on the the side of the road, with rudimentary hand tools, good old fashioned yankee ingenuity, and a roll of baling wire. :)
I have a 27 yo son that will most likely end up with mine. I'd love to do a road trip with him...but he LOVES speed, and that can get you killed on a bike. So, call me a hypocrite, I hope he waits till he gets this "speed" thing out of his system before he gets his own. Critter, I got to tell ya...it's about that breaking down thing...everybody as something that floats their boat, but I HATE breaking down...and have been in the "great middle of nowhere", many times, where it would have sucked large! These newer bikes are really a completely different animal than the older bikes...VERY reliable and should go 100-150k miles with care. I know my limitations...I'm not a good mechanic...but I'd sure like you along on the next trip, because it sounds like you are! So, consider yourself officially invited!
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Consider some additional braking capability on the front,
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Can't go fast cuz it will never stop. :)
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makes me wish I had saved my '73...something cool about those older bikes.
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