And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Sigh. That brings back memories of my life in Japan running the Okutama skyline drive on my fully cafe'd 650 twin. I ran Pirelli Phantoms and after a couple of serious runs, they'd get so soft you could easily leave a thumbprint in them. You haven't felt truly alive until you've been in a two wheel drift on a motorcycle On a mountain road.My big problem though was boiling the brakes....
Sure brings back great memories. Thank Boss! Used to make my slicks look like those, tons of traction, if they are Michelin light weight GP slicks, only tires i used racing that gum up like in the photo, they have so much traction when hot, in that lean that dude is got going, i would literally do a leaned over wheely rolling the throttle on coming out of the apex. The radial design carcass Michelin race slicks, create a huge contact patch, they way to ride those radials, is to push as hard as you can on the outside foot peg, cause the radial to roll over the rim, and the contact patch get really large, and thats why the tire pictured above is shredded and gummed up. Its so exciting and a total thrill getting into it like that, you can drop serious time off your laps, its almost impossible to loose traction, and you should see the front tire, goes from a round ogive new, to totally slab sided from pushing the front in and out of the corners, with the throttle. Motorcycle racing "2 wheel drift."
Sigh. That brings back memories of my life in Japan running the Okutama skyline drive on my fully cafe'd 650 twin. I ran Pirelli Phantoms and after a couple of serious runs, they'd get so soft you could easily leave a thumbprint in them. You haven't felt truly alive until you've been in a two wheel drift on a motorcycle On a mountain road.My big problem though was boiling the brakes....
ReplyDeleteYou, sir, have been added to my personal pantheon of heroes.
DeleteMy big problem was crashing but it reduced as I got older and eventually seems to have gone away as I slowed with age.
DeleteSure brings back great memories. Thank Boss!
ReplyDeleteUsed to make my slicks look like those, tons of traction, if they are Michelin light weight GP slicks, only tires i used racing that gum up like in the photo, they have so much traction when hot, in that lean that dude is got going, i would literally do a leaned over wheely rolling the throttle on coming out of the apex. The radial design carcass Michelin race slicks, create a huge contact patch, they way to ride those radials, is to push as hard as you can on the outside foot peg, cause the radial to roll over the rim, and the contact patch get really large, and thats why the tire pictured above is shredded and gummed up. Its so exciting and a total thrill getting into it like that, you can drop serious time off your laps, its almost impossible to loose traction, and you should see the front tire, goes from a round ogive new, to totally slab sided from pushing the front in and out of the corners, with the throttle. Motorcycle racing "2 wheel drift."
I used to buy the practice round scrubs off a pro team at Road Atlanta. I would run them on track days on my XV650. That was an expensive hobby.
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