Are we gonna have a rideout this year or what???

I have a bad habit of planning the road ahead, but ignoring the rider immediately in front and just accepting them as a moving black spot in my vision, and just planning around them, so my brain almost blocks out the fact there are there because I'm not looking at them, I'm looking past them, they are just a bike shaped object moving across my field of vision, and I end up too close.

If someone is slower than me I realise it and back off because they are holding me up, if someone is quicker than me it doesn't matter, it's only when I'm on exactly the same pace as somebody else, like Lenny and I were yesterday, that you end up almost with two bikes operating as a single unit. So, sorry if I crowded you Lenny.

Luckily, I was a bit behind with rob I think so watched all this unfold lol, very first thoughts was somebody had binned it , didn't see chris and guessed something like that happened

I had a certain three figure limit in my head yesterday that I didnt exceed under any circumstance, even on straights, I was a good boy

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Originally Posted by specialone

I had a certain three figure limit in my head yesterday that I didnt exceed under any circumstance, even on straights, I was a good boy

112?















KPH

And I bet I know the corner, speirs amd I have gone straight on at least once... and it was after over taking a line of cars, they saw us do it then we had to overtake them again.

[Binky]

Whose FrankenGixer? Member on here?

Originally Posted by specialone

I had a certain three figure limit in my head yesterday that I didnt exceed under any circumstance, even on straights, I was a good boy

Me neither

Actually, the sat nav isn't easy to read when the speeds pick up, so with the speedo not working, I have no idea what my top speed was. I only looked at my speed through towns and villages.

You enjoyed your run through the wider twisties from my fuel stop to Melton Mowbray, I was watching you in my mirrors!

Originally Posted by Binky

Whose FrankenGixer? Member on here?

It the nickname for Chris' new Gixxer. It's such a pretty beast, it's been compared to Frankenstein.

Originally Posted by G

And I bet I know the corner, speirs amd I have gone straight on at least once... and it was after over taking a line of cars, they saw us do it then we had to overtake them again.

The way it is laid out, it's very easy just to think the road goes straight on, and not realise there's a corner there until you've missed it.

Originally Posted by Binky

Whose FrankenGixer? Member on here?

Spears' new Gixxer

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I was looking in my mirrors wondering if Ralph had made the previous bend ok cause it was a bit of a tricky one. At the same time I was accelerating hard in second. By the time I realised I was supposed to be going right I was going too fast so had to go straight on to slow down. To be honest at some points in the day ı was riding a bit close to my limits and concentrating soley on catching chris rather than riding for myself, thankfully that was the worst that happened.

After that ı relaxed a bit and was actually just as quick anyway.

Let's swap places next time then and you can chase me instead of Spiers, we are more evenly matched in terms of pace and you'll be more comfortable. On my SV I'd have been sat on Spiers tail, but then I was pushing that bike to it's limits and crashed it three times, once was ice and pretty unavoidable, but twice it was entirely my own fault, a highside and a lowside as the result of pushing too hard in a corner.

I decided that yesterdays pace was is quickest as I ever want to ride from now on, and that will only be on occasion when having a play on rideouts and so on, not every time I get on the bike. Leaving some margin for error and not doing corners as fast as I possibly can.

I couldn't have gone much faster yesterday anyway, because yesterday was my first day starting to gel with the Daytona.

There were also a lot of corners yesterday, especially on the road that goes from Market Harborough to Melton Mowbray (where that idiot on the Ducati came past), where the hedges were quite thick and high, so you were kind of riding with tunnel vision, and I was thinking "I'm happy, bikes happy, could go faster", but I don't dare twist the throttle more because I can't see far enough. If there was a broken down car or a 15mph tractor just round the bend, you'd be screwed. A lot of blind summits that have you backing off the speed yesterday too, 'cos you just don't know what you might find on the other side.

Originally Posted by -Ralph-

Me neither

Actually, the sat nav isn't easy to read when the speeds pick up, so with the speedo not working, I have no idea what my top speed was. I only looked at my speed through towns and villages.

You enjoyed your run through the wider twisties from my fuel stop to Melton Mowbray, I was watching you in my mirrors!

I enjoyed most of it Col tbh, even the tighter corners when i was behind you guys, no one really pulled away from me, except chris I didn't see him
I got more confident as day got on so I relaxed a bit.

Good day