liberalhunter Loc: Your mom's house

Stop it!!

woodguru

Lol...true

My first street bike was a brand new 1979 Suzuki 1000E, riding the Woodside/Skyline roads on Sundays it was a miracle I survived a bike that accelerated much faster than it wanted to stop Lol. I lived a few miles away from FOX that makes high performance shocks and suspension, and they let me try different shock and suspension things they developed.

Then in the late 80's thru 90's a friend of mine was a track junkie that could afford whatever he wanted to where he bought two of the cutting edge track bikes like the Ducati and Aprilia every year and tricked them out with thousands of dollars worth of suspension upgrades and carbon fiber wheels...he would sell me bikes at prices that he had spent way more than he would sell them to me for. I got the Honda Hawk and Suzuki TL from him for way less than he had put in them in performance upgrades and later a Ducati 998 when he bought a 999. As he would get newer bike I would buy one of his older bikes, he tended to keep two or three, and he'd make me really good deals on what was an upgrade for me whenever I could afford it.

Say or believe whatever you want about me, I've had some nice bikes through the years, including the Harley FXDX I got from him in the early 2000's.

My last bike was one I liked better than any bike I've ever had, a Kawasaki ZZRR1200, I put Pirelli Corsa 3 tires on it because the stock touring tires were atrociously slippery when the bike was pushed hard in corners. I parked it and sold it after riding it for about a year because I was seeing so many people die on fast bikes on these country roads in this area, figured it was time to quit while I was ahead.

We had a saying among the guys that ride stupidly fast, if you feel like you are going to have a bad wreck you will, and the only place to ride crazy fast is on a race track.

nonalien1 Loc: Mojave Desert

I like my nephews Suzuki GSX. Too much bike for me but he rides like it's a part of him. When he sees me on the road he'll make the front wheel stand up and ride like that about a mile or so. New bikes are crazy fast. I feel more comfortable off road and now that I'm getting older (hate to admit it) I like four wheels under me.

woodguru

That's where I went with it, the accident that led to me parking and selling the bike was a CHP on a bike on Icehouse road doing about 80mph when a bear came out from the forest running full tilt across the road, he didn't have time to do anything except hit it, he went over the handlebars and spent three weeks in intensive care. Broke everything in both hands along with too many bones to count...that did it for me, the idea that you have no control of things like that on a bike.

nonalien1 Loc: Mojave Desert

Can you imagine the psychological damage he could suffer from? Off road has unseen danger as well but it forces you to be more aware of your surroundings. Plus softer landings .
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