Check this beastie on the corners.

[stuartyboy]

Honda Goldwing cornering:shock:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZVywVwY8OU

[kwak zzr]

its not what you ride it how you ride it.

[Luckypants]

Wow! And that 6-cyl engine sounds glorious on full chat. Ball of steel to hustle a monster like that over Deals Gap at that pace.

[kwak zzr]

go on mike you know you want to :) and we can all listen to you radio:)

[stuartyboy]

Ball of steel to hustle a monster like that over Deals Gap at that pace.
Big cahonies indeed.

[Skip]

Scrape-tastic! :lol:

[gettin2dizzy]

was that a goldwing chasing it? sounded scrapey enough!

[rs_tubby]

all i have to say is they are brave brave people and have alot of skill on those bikes!!!!

[arenalife]

I believe these guys run tours, you go pillion while they do that :)

[Draper]

haha thats crazy!

also the how not to take a corner in the related fields box is showing how not beasty riders corner on them

[Wideboy]

flippin heck didn't know they could do that lol

[Ceri JC]

I have done that road (Tail of the Dragon) on those bikes (1800 Goldwings) two up. I wasn't as fast as those chaps in the video, but I was keeping up with sportsbikes (lots of these American lads have never seen corners ;)) and cars were pulling over to let me pass. Not to denigrate what those boys are doing, but Goldwings do handle vastly better than most people think/you would imagine by looking at them. Even so much that you can swiftly alter your line mid corner, when some prat in an S2000 nearly kills you and your pillion by skidding down hill and crossing half way into your lane (if I'd been in the car, as I was the next day, it'd of been a head on, no two ways about it).

It's a 30 limit throughout and the police have a policy of prosecuting anyone doing over 50, but 50 was plenty of speed for most of the corners. To anyone considering doing it, it was well worth it, but I'd like to try it on a 650 adventure bike next time (fastest chap I saw whilst I was there was on some mid sized supermoto).

Oh and I managed to bottom it out twice. Good thing it was a hire bike, it didn't sound nice. :D

[MiniMatt]

haha thats crazy!

also the how not to take a corner in the related fields box is showing how not beasty riders corner on them

God that second vid is scary, not so much because of the crap (non)cornering but the RV driving film maker kind of involved in the accident (though totally not his fault) says "oh my god they're going to beat our asses" and decides to drive off rather than stop and see if the biker who's just crashed into a very deep ditch is dead or not...