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Old school riding style

Postby hjr1100s » Wed Dec 05, 2007 8:25 pm

There's a lengthy thread on Pelican about cornering techniques. I don't want to start it over here :roll: .... but I would like to share my contribution to that thread...

It's a video clip of me on a Assen track day being overtaken by a guy on a 30yr old Kawasaki 3 cilinder two stroke. He's showing how it's done: riding fast without making a fuzz or act like a monkey on a bike.

Enjoy:

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=CSYGd2Kieyo

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Postby f90x » Wed Dec 05, 2007 10:22 pm

very good, i don't get off either. sorry, it's started :roll:

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Postby gus » Wed Dec 05, 2007 11:33 pm

Great video.
Although i think he looked good because the other riders around him were a bit crap. :wink:
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Postby Dog Tyred » Thu Dec 06, 2007 8:00 am

After riding the same bike for 30 years I'm no surprised he can ride it well!! :wink:

Nice footage by the way

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Postby f90x » Thu Dec 06, 2007 1:26 pm

I'd like to think that he's an old club racer and his KH has got a Harris frame and full Ohlins and he's out at every oportunity making fun of superbike riders.

But it's more than likely modern tyres and a great talent. He'd run rings around me, that's for sure.

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Postby hjr1100s » Thu Dec 06, 2007 4:07 pm

Here's another clip. This guy knows how to ride a R1200S. Fast .. and smooth... no need to do on-board acrobatics.

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=-7aPS-xmVow

Here's the layout of the track:

http://www.tt-assen.com/cms/includes/export-772dca1b38a29c32b45599b03ed8c539.html
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Postby gus » Thu Dec 06, 2007 4:37 pm

Thanks HJ.Again an excellent video.Although this rider does shift his body weight unlike the guy on the "widow maker".Assen is such a great track.
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Postby RoLoo » Fri Dec 07, 2007 8:07 am

hjr1100s wrote:
...here's another clip. This guy knows how to ride a R1200S. Fast .. and smooth... no need to do on-board acrobatics...



:shock: ...if you hear that Yapanese-on-board-camere-bike screaming, it gives you an idea of the speed they are doing...

...strange thing is though ; a boxer doesn't give you the feeling it is going THAT fast...
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Postby Harry Lime » Fri Dec 07, 2007 7:01 pm

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Postby hjr1100s » Fri Dec 07, 2007 9:09 pm

Can't trace his name or face, but notice how, in the second video, he's in front at the very begin ..... and NOT being passed later on. Not by the guy on the BMW, nor by the camera guy!!!!

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Cornering old school style

Postby boxerscott » Fri Dec 07, 2007 9:11 pm

Hey Lars i like you matey you seem a decent egg (I would never have admitted to that) i have never done assen but would like to if there was some freindly hospitality at other end?
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Postby boxerscott » Fri Dec 07, 2007 9:14 pm

Feck! I keep doing that :oops: I meant HJ not lars sorry (had a good glass of Scotlands Finest) Chris.
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Re: Cornering old school style

Postby gus » Fri Dec 07, 2007 11:46 pm

boxerscott wrote:(had a good glass of Scotlands Finest) Chris.

you been on the irun bru?
It will be buckfast next. :lol:
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Postby nab 301 » Sat Dec 08, 2007 6:18 pm

Harry Lime wrote:Yes, well, this might explain a thing or two.....

http://www.exbilletengines.com/Engineca ... ecase.html

apparently he's working on a 200BHP version ( at the rear wheel of course )! :shock:

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Holy s*hit , :shock: (not that I could do it justice) For the engineering / machining alone I want one ...(rushes out to buy lotto ticket) :lol: . Just looking at the (undamped?) rev counter as it gets in the powerband and flies around the dial :shock:

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