BigBadDodge
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Have always prided myself as the crazy bastard that will take a stretched bike through the twisties from time to time(and generally hard when i do) But came across something i didnt know how to handle today. Was on this empty road heading to my brothers and there is a real nice long right hand curve i like to lay into. The road is 2 lanes, open fields on both sides. So i get up on the balls of my feet and get into it hard(probably 60-65ish) everythings going great, bike feels good, watching the end of the corner and see 2 large prairie dogs in the middle of the lane. Now i have hit a prairie dog before, but the bike was straight up, little bump and made a mess of my pants, shoes and bottom of the bike. (note:avoiding a deer totaled my first busa, i evaluate now and if its not something thats going to kill me i hold on and dont swerve out of my way to avoid it). Oncoming car cant swerve out of my lane, and im not going for the field so only thing i could think was to straighten the bike up. Threw my weight back and got her almost vertical, ended up missing both of em, couldnt tell you by how much but i couldnt see em and they were in the road when i looked in the mirror.
How do you handle this? i figure they are small but its gonna get slick if i hit em, but i wasnt able to get the bike all the way vertical either, my thoughts are it would just wash the tires out.
The more i play with this roush the more im taking an interest in handling and chassis setup, i've never had a car that handled so great, and now im looking into chassis mods to make things not only straight line fast as hell but also be able to hang with smaller cars in the curvy's. Its started to carry over into my riding now, im not going to take the bike back to stock length but i guess im getting more in tune to the right way to twist these things around and be able to hang with the swb bikes in the canyons even better than i can already
How do you handle this? i figure they are small but its gonna get slick if i hit em, but i wasnt able to get the bike all the way vertical either, my thoughts are it would just wash the tires out.
The more i play with this roush the more im taking an interest in handling and chassis setup, i've never had a car that handled so great, and now im looking into chassis mods to make things not only straight line fast as hell but also be able to hang with smaller cars in the curvy's. Its started to carry over into my riding now, im not going to take the bike back to stock length but i guess im getting more in tune to the right way to twist these things around and be able to hang with the swb bikes in the canyons even better than i can already