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Delta_one
| | Posted on Friday, April 09, 2010 - 09:11 pm: | 
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Glitch you are very correct smooth is always my goal. My dad started drumming that into me as a kid... I never listened then and was as abrupt as I wanted to be or even could be because it was fun. I wore myself out early in the rides and rode like poo for the last legs.
Now that I am older I try to ride based on his experience, he started riding in his teens and knows worlds more about riding than I do. (he also started teaching me do to the same driving early on, and always a stick. I didn't drive an automatic tranny untill I was 21)
But I also don't try to be fast anymore just smooth and stable, the stability is the important one to me. I want grip to spare at all times. It slows me down in corners and I get passed by insaniacs but I don't really care, I'm still having my fun  and I'll live to do it again tomorrow.
And that Bike Blamer has no idea how to be smooth.  . LOL |
New12r
| | Posted on Friday, April 09, 2010 - 09:18 pm: |
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I had a tankslapper once, bringing it down to hard from a wheelie at 80mph or so with the front wheel a little crooked.
Must have been the bikes fault, why oh why did I not sue Buell???
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Delta_one
| | Posted on Friday, April 09, 2010 - 10:03 pm: |
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whoa that bike nearly killed you!!
maybe you two should start a class action suit about it.
stupid bikes 
in all seriousness that looks gruesome, I'm glad you made it out alive. how does your helmet look after that? |
Brightbuell
| | Posted on Friday, April 09, 2010 - 10:40 pm: |
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when test riding my first buell i just about flipped over the handle bar's. I now use one finger to break and its very comfortable. I have never had a problem since. Plus now i am able to keep most of my hand on the grip. it feels much safer and i dont have to think about it. |
Glitch
| | Posted on Saturday, April 10, 2010 - 08:10 am: |
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Damn Charlie, I hate that picture!
whoa that bike nearly killed you!!
Broke his neck it did. |
New12r
| | Posted on Saturday, April 10, 2010 - 09:45 am: |
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Above C4 breath no more is what an emt told me. I fractured C2 and C3, small scratches on the helmet, tore up my jacket some. Hell I would have walked away had it not been for the sudden stop in the ditch, and resulting cartwheels.
Thats IT!!! I will SUE THE DITCH TOO!! |
Hotdog271
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 20, 2010 - 11:00 pm: |
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Sue the tow truck driver for screwing up the bike while towing it... I'm sure it didn't have all those scratches in it before... |
Tmall
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 09:38 am: |
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About 15000 miles on my Xb12r and I haven't had a single tank slapper.
I had about 10000 miles on a 2000 R6 and that thing would try to throw me off every couple of weeks. (more like 3 bad tank slappers)\
One of them was so bad I bruised my wrists on the gas tank. Those bikes were known to be prone to tankslappers and when I bought it it had a steering damper. I took it off and suffered the consequences. |
Slaughter
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 09:47 am: |
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I've got your POLE for you:
(Message edited by slaughter on April 21, 2010) |
Swordsman
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 10:56 am: |
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Hey, that dude's stealing a power pole!
~SM |
Fast1075
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 01:15 pm: |
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That's called caber tossing....and don't make any funny remarks about his skirt...ROFLMFA!!!! |
Skinstains
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 06:22 pm: |
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Where did that troll go I wanted to show her my pole ? |
