jazzpaintball
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I went on a ride today with some locals via another forum. Everything started alright, the leader promising to do some strait "boring" riding and then some heavy twisties on the way back :thumbup:.
I trudged away with these 5 people, 3 of them doing wheelies (HIGHLY illegal here in Washington State). I rolled my eyes and kept with it, wanting to learn some new awesome twisty road. 90 minutes later we get to the start of this awesome road and everyone stopped to top off their fuel and stretch.
Happy as ever I wait for 15 minutes for them to each smoke at least 5 cigarettes each (no problem with smoking, just hate waiting) and get everything ready. We get on the road and they take off, and I mean take off. I try to keep up and then looking down at my gauge I see: 105MPH
Again, I have no problem with speed, but there is a difference between 'spirited riding' and blatant speeding. I hung back for I know these liter bikes would not be able to keep their speed through the heavy turns ahead. Well, I was wrong. Not that they could keep their speed through heavy turns, but that this awesome road of twisties was nothing more than smooth swaying roads back and forth. Going 80 (speed limit 60) I didn't even have to lean with my bike to make these corners. Out of the 25 miles of road, I had to brake coming into a turn less than a dozen times.
After about half way, I see them on the side of the road waiting for me. They then complained that I was dragging them back and that I need to be more aggressive with the cager traffic on the road. One even telling me "You need to pass when you can, even if that means on the inside of a car in a corner." WTF....
Anyway, I dont want to rant, but what do you think a good "twisty" road is?
Something like what they had in mind: A road that goes left to right, but you have to go triple digits to make it somewhat challenging?
Or something like a road that you have to brake before each turn, set up, and then accelerate out with some sort of precision to do it right?
Travis Walthall
I trudged away with these 5 people, 3 of them doing wheelies (HIGHLY illegal here in Washington State). I rolled my eyes and kept with it, wanting to learn some new awesome twisty road. 90 minutes later we get to the start of this awesome road and everyone stopped to top off their fuel and stretch.
Happy as ever I wait for 15 minutes for them to each smoke at least 5 cigarettes each (no problem with smoking, just hate waiting) and get everything ready. We get on the road and they take off, and I mean take off. I try to keep up and then looking down at my gauge I see: 105MPH
Again, I have no problem with speed, but there is a difference between 'spirited riding' and blatant speeding. I hung back for I know these liter bikes would not be able to keep their speed through the heavy turns ahead. Well, I was wrong. Not that they could keep their speed through heavy turns, but that this awesome road of twisties was nothing more than smooth swaying roads back and forth. Going 80 (speed limit 60) I didn't even have to lean with my bike to make these corners. Out of the 25 miles of road, I had to brake coming into a turn less than a dozen times.
After about half way, I see them on the side of the road waiting for me. They then complained that I was dragging them back and that I need to be more aggressive with the cager traffic on the road. One even telling me "You need to pass when you can, even if that means on the inside of a car in a corner." WTF....
Anyway, I dont want to rant, but what do you think a good "twisty" road is?
Something like what they had in mind: A road that goes left to right, but you have to go triple digits to make it somewhat challenging?
Or something like a road that you have to brake before each turn, set up, and then accelerate out with some sort of precision to do it right?
Travis Walthall