Cool The Kid
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Ooooooooooooo you cant go wrong with the GT1000.... one of my dream bikes is a Paul Smart
What track was that???/
What track was that???/
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It's a Sport 1000, not a GT, but more or less the same. Unfortunately for my bank account it's got way too many zeroes spent on it and I haven't even ridden it in over a year. The Harley is too fun around Brooklyn, and I don't do stupid things like wheelies on the Williamsburg bridge with it.Ooooooooooooo you cant go wrong with the GT1000.... one of my dream bikes is a Paul Smart
What track was that???/
Like you did?
While you keep claiming your first bike was a great choice, every experience you've related indicates it wasn't. Despite completing your training courses and getting your license, which indicates you had sufficient training for riding a motorcycle on public roads
, you were unsure of your ability to handle it on the road and so tooled around parking lots for two months
, and you dropped it repeatedly during low-speed maneuvers.
This is not normal behavior.
Those are the symptoms of a new rider with too much bike.
You previously wrote:
The reason I said that was ironic before is that you're clearly just like the person you describe. You ignored everyone's advice,
bought too much bike and spent months tip-toeing around parking lots (also driving late at night/early morning with no cars around, I'll bet),
and you're so arrogant you can't even consider the possibility you were mistaken,
even when everyone disagrees with you.
Think about that: you're saying everyone else is wrong.
That's pretty much the defining characteristic of arrogance.
You can try to rationalize it by claiming you know yourself better than we'll ever know you,
we weren't there, etc.,
but the other side of that is all we know is what you, your most biased and invested advocate, have told us, and you still come off as being in the wrong. We universally think you're wrong when we likely don't even know the most egregious blunders you made.
Just to be clear, getting a French license is 20 hours of driving lessons on the bike, close track and open road. I had to do it twice, one with a 125cc and one with a 500cc because it's two different licenses.
Aside of that one of my best friend and coach rode in the world endurance championship and finished 4th at Le Mans last year and i've been taking one riding course every year or so for the fast 6-7 years... I could recommend you a good french course, i'm just not really aware of all the kind of courses that goes around the world. Sorry.
So yeah, I'm quite confident entering this pissing contest...
Back to the main topic, that last ducati looks amazing. Is that a 1000GT ?
Yup. Born and raised.
I swung by the Mods & Rockers event here in Toronto today. Some hipsters, some beautiful bikes but the stand out was a vintage Vincent in working condition. There was also one of the new Norton 961 Cafe Racers there.
99% of bikes these days still don't have slippers, you're acting as if downshifting has changed.
Also, why are you downshifting in the middle of a turn?
Chirping the back wheel, while not ideal, is certainly not resulting in anyone going down if they are shifting when they should be. The level where this becomes troublesome is far beyond where a new rider should be riding and is rather irrelevant.
I would kill for that truck. Or at least maim...Agreed. Back on topic, my little chopper parked against the wall and my 78 F-250 Supercab. Don't need to do the 142 miles each way to the track next time I go, so I guess I should get another track day booked soon.
Need to get this thing back together, cracked the left side engine case and haven't bothered to put the 2 hours into replacing it for a year now.
West Indians in the place. I am a Bajan
I rode up for Caribana a couple years back (08) from scenic Maryland. Rode up with a bunch of slow riders...**** was nice yet horrible because of the pace.
Ended up blazing down the QEW at what I found out later was impound speeds. The motorcycle gods were smiling down on me that day my friends and all was well
Rented a nice house in Danforth: 5 minutes from the beach and 10 minutes from downtown. We feted every night til we dropped. I love Toronto...well during the summer that is.
Nice nice. Thanks to the beaches and 2 women in particular, I have a soft spot for B'dos.
Caribana is good times but I stopped going down to the Lakeshore when they put up the high fences so ppl like me couldn't dip in and out to take a lil wine.