What ticks your boxes bike wise?

[yorkie_chris]

Mate I've done plenty rock climbing, a lot of it with no ropes... and I tell you I'd rather fall off something like that than get an Italian up my @rse!!!

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Mate I've done plenty rock climbing, a lot of it with no ropes... and I tell you I'd rather fall off something like that than get an Italian up my @rse!!!

Fair comment

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by Cymraeg_Atodeg

My throttle control is not too much of an issue (in the dry anyway,) but, it is the trusting the bike into the corners

Get better suspension, it helps.

[Jayneflakes]

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Mate I've done plenty rock climbing, a lot of it with no ropes... and I tell you I'd rather fall off something like that than get an Italian up my @rse!!!

Hmm, my best ever solo was E3 5C, not a very hard technical move, but a really nasty landing from 70 feet if you came off.

Despite my love of extreme sports (climbing, Ice Climbing, Mountain biking and even caving), nothing I have ever done has created that same feeling in my heart of hearing my bike roll on from thirty up to top speed.

I was out today for a ride and I am still learning how to ride the bike well. Today I felt the surge and it did not come from a standing start, it was moving along and then building speed, so I could feel the acceleration pulling at me, but I could also hear the bike start to howl.

I know that for now I am only on 33BHP, but even so, it is still an amazing feeling when it just surges forwards like that. I feel like I have joined a new club and I understand something that I did not fully understand before.

F***, I love my bike.

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by Jayneflakes

Despite my love of extreme sports (climbing, Ice Climbing, Mountain biking and even caving), nothing I have ever done has created that same feeling in my heart of hearing my bike roll on from thirty up to top speed.

F***, I love my bike.

I've done caving once and I must say it looks like a sport for the Welsh, was not keen. I do actually fancy cave diving though. wreck diving is cool, never done caves.

Get a proper pipe on it, on my commute there are 2 big tunnels, keep it flat oot through both of them.... 9000rpm through there, you feel it echoing right in the guts! Bwahahaha! Had a bit of a race with a corvette through there other day (pussy!) and mine sounded better

Same going through glencoe, rock walls reflect the sound.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo6uYB-S2I0 (still love this!!)


Other one that seriously brought a grin was the SRAD GSXR down park straight at cadwell... the G force as you come up the rise was bloody amazing, with the mental noise of this snorting great motor assaulting your brain and the world going backwards as the G force tries to shove your chin right into the tank.

Sorry, don't give a **** what anybody else thinks of the video, I think the Fastbikes guys were a bunch of pr**ks.

His riding obviously wasn't as good as he thought it was, and given that he ran wide whilst at full lean angle to the left, at the beginning of a right hand bend, he would have crashed anyway, 'cos even if he'd stayed on the tarmac and not lowsided it, he'd never have picked the bike up in time to make it round the right-hander.

"Just what you need, if you only broke your back two months ago" , as if it came along as the result of a bit of bad luck! Well if it's not what you need then don't be such a f*****ing pr**ck!

Hope the selfish pr**ks loved ones saw the video and realised how he doesn't actually give a **** whether they end up standing at his graveside dressed in black or not.

My wife would divorce me if she saw me riding like that, and quite rightly so, because it would just show that I held no regard whatsoever for my position as a husband and father an I was quite prepared to throw it all away for the sake of a 1/2 hour thrill and leave them completely in the s**t.

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by -Ralph-

'cos even if he'd stayed on the tarmac and not lowsided it, he'd never have picked the bike up in time to make it round the right-hander.

Sure it would'a been fine, looks to be a bigger radius than the left.

I like to take these things as yes it's insane, yes it's a bad idea, yes they're a set of c##ts... just enjoy it.

Most of all enjoy the noise

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Sure it would'a been fine, looks to be a bigger radius than the left.

I like to take these things as yes it's insane, yes it's a bad idea, yes they're a set of c##ts... just enjoy it.

Most of all enjoy the noise

It was a nice noise right enough!

[yorkie_chris]

Way I see it if there is no insanity like that in the world then there's no point being alive. Like the good side of society in demolition man... every restaurant a taco bell and getting fines for swearing... what sort of a f*ckin hippy c**t would want to live in that world?

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Way I see it if there is no insanity like that in the world then there's no point being alive. Like the good side of society in demolition man... every restaurant a taco bell and getting fines for swearing... what sort of a f*ckin hippy c**t would want to live in that world?

I'm quite happy giving my bike a blast as you know, and non bikers might think we are "mad", and I know it's a "risk", and I'm prepared to do it because that's what I love, as you say it's the point in being alive.

But there is a big difference between what a non-biker might term as a "mad risk" and what a biker terms as "insanity".

As I've posted on here many times before, at the very worst I'll run the risk and accept a short spell in hospital and a 6 month recovery, if it means I can keep biking in my life, but what must not happen as a result of any risk I take (unless it was just unavoidable bad luck which can happen to anyone in any dangerous sport), is that I widow my wife and kid.

So if there is armco to hit, or cliff to fall off, or or a blind bend to ride round on the wrong side of the road, you just don't do it. I don't need those kind of risks to make me feel alive.