Grin. Burble, Burble...
04-20-2003, 08:29 PM
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Grin. Burble, Burble...
Had a great day on the road with the 78 today. Just stuffed in fresh shocks and steel ball joints, fresh alignment. Beautiful day in Northern Va and my normal Sunday motorcycle ride was nixed with members of our group heading for track days. So... why not scrub in the silver guy with the standard motorcycle loop? Excellent idea.
This area of Northern Va has some very serious twisty roads. We ride them at very high speed on motorcycles on weekends and now know them pretty well. About 15 miles into the loop, I'm sitting at a tee stop sign. From my right a group of 5 sportbikes roll by. R6, R1, 929, etc. Bang the left and after them. Catch them in about 3 corners and proceed to hang on the *** end of the pack for 6 or 7 miles. Don't think this group knew the road very well but they could blast to 100+ in a couple feet so they made up for it. The whole time my beast of a 928 simply inhaled the corners. Last guy in the group kept looking back.... I'd grin. "Hi. I'm a 928. You're gonna have to do better than that."
At the end of the section, stop sign, 5 bikes stopped, all of them turn around to see what the hell is that back there. Couple thumbs up. I grinned. Beast burbled. They roared off, I turned to continue our standard loop. What an animal.
This area of Northern Va has some very serious twisty roads. We ride them at very high speed on motorcycles on weekends and now know them pretty well. About 15 miles into the loop, I'm sitting at a tee stop sign. From my right a group of 5 sportbikes roll by. R6, R1, 929, etc. Bang the left and after them. Catch them in about 3 corners and proceed to hang on the *** end of the pack for 6 or 7 miles. Don't think this group knew the road very well but they could blast to 100+ in a couple feet so they made up for it. The whole time my beast of a 928 simply inhaled the corners. Last guy in the group kept looking back.... I'd grin. "Hi. I'm a 928. You're gonna have to do better than that."
At the end of the section, stop sign, 5 bikes stopped, all of them turn around to see what the hell is that back there. Couple thumbs up. I grinned. Beast burbled. They roared off, I turned to continue our standard loop. What an animal.
