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A video for our Valk bretheren |
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HSATF 1st Officer
Posts: 1123 04/15/08 6:05 AM First Officer |
You meet the nicest people on a Honda (forum).
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HSATF Member
Posts: 36 04/25/08 8:28 PM |
All I can say is
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HSATF Tail Gunner
Posts: 85 04/25/08 11:43 PM |
you know that looks like the video from a couple of years ago they claimed was a Goldwing
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HSATF Road Captain
Posts: 397 04/26/08 8:51 AM |
Interesting to see that large bike pull that off...but the dude is also lucky he didn't wipe out. Did you see the wiggle on that butt coming around the
corner?? Which brings me to my point:
I know I'm a wet rag when I say that I wish folks wouldn't do that stuff on the street. We saw too many guys wipe out their bikes that way in FL, and usually taking someone else out in the process. I see guys doing that up on the BRP, too. It just ticks me off. Keep your showboating on the track where you can only hurt yourself when something goes wrong. Personally, those type of folks are not my "brethren", by any means. Okay, I'm jumping off my soapbox now...I didn't want to tick anybody off with my words, it's just my .02. Take it or leave it, as you wish. Live It, Love It, Paint It, Ride It!
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HSATF Tail Gunner
Posts: 85 04/26/08 5:03 PM |
thats ok eclecticdawn in another forum I read they call them squids lol
squid = anyone riding a motorcycle in any unsafe manner on public streets or roads thus giving motorcyclest a bad name |
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HSATF 1st Officer
Posts: 1123 04/29/08 8:31 AM First Officer |
eclecticdawn wrote: You're right about this, Dawn. I didn't post this to glorify squidness in any way. I just thought with all that power and weight, a Valk would boil off the back tire before it would hang the front wheel.
You meet the nicest people on a Honda (forum).
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HSATF Road Captain
Posts: 397 04/29/08 9:20 AM |
"Boil off the back tire"...I like that expression!
NP, Chicago, I know the majority of us don't glorify squidley-ness, but can appreciate the beauty of seeing the nose of a big beast lofted into the air. The June 2008 issue of "Baggers" that just arrived shows a belt-driven bagger with it's nose in the air. It's a truly wicked and beautiful photo. It is just human nature for folks to generalize, though, and ALL bikers tend to get lumped into a bad/unsafe/crazy category when the squids pull these stunts on the streets. "Damn bikers". I overheard groups of young squids talking about their stunts on the road almost every week at bike night down in Largo, FL . They get such a BUZZ from doing it, and the hell with anyone else on the road. The folly of youth and their illusion of being indestructible... Live It, Love It, Paint It, Ride It!
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fire fly medic |
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Posts: 1111 04/29/08 10:55 AM
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heck my T does that now I put a vaulk tire on it, its all about the tires! LOL
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HSATF 1st Officer
Posts: 3746 04/29/08 10:22 PM |
eclecticdawn wrote: Sort of reminds you of one of these, doesn't it?
"We are different - yet we are the
same"
2004 GL1800 Goldwing (Titanium) 1999 Ace Tourer (Silver over Black) |
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HSATF Road Captain
Posts: 397 04/30/08 7:59 AM |
LOL...it sorta does! When you set the beast down, it can be ornery and unpredictable!!
Live It, Love It, Paint It, Ride It!
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HSATF 1st Officer
Posts: 695 04/30/08 8:42 AM |
eclecticdawn wrote: I'm with Dawn on this. There's a place and a time to be a hooligan. A busy street isnt' it. That said, I'm no angel and am guilty of some
goofy moves on the street but never a wheelie or any stunting.
Here's another wheelie video, but you can see this is on a closed course. http://bmwmoto.free.fr/k1200lt/stunt2.mpg
duke
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Posts: 1111 05/02/08 6:48 PM
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I'm not sure if he didnt put more people at risk than if he was on a diserted road,
I'm sure he knows what he is doing but I would want more area roped off
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