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darryle
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RE: zx14 build for 200 mph
01/06/10 6:16 PM
cosmetics,a hugger,rear fender removal,levers,pegs.performance,raise forks 10mm,carbon fibre rims,suspension upgrades how big is your wallet?
Stephens09
Joined: 07/10/09
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darryle
Location: ontario
Joined: 02/15/09
Posts: 1185
RE: zx14 build for 200 mph
01/07/10 5:07 AM
Go the free cosmetics first.Brock has great map support so have fun with the new found HP.Set uo the bikes suspension to your body weight.Don't change to many things at once.A properly adjusted suspension and good tires miles of smiles.
Hub
Joined: 02/05/09
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RE: zx14 build for 200 mph
01/23/10 11:39 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTfKJFrUi9w&feature=related
If I were placed in a salt/dirt/bumpy track type situation to reach or exceed 200mph, I would have 'fixed bars' I could swap [away] from the hinged bars. I want to hold onto the chassis and let the front end wiggle out of a tank slapper. You fight what wants to remain sable and upright??? If you left it alone, my thinking it would shake itself out. You sure do not want to sit up over 160 say. This way, I am still tucked, but conditioned myself to re-grip and hold on tight
Holding tight on the bars is a no-no anyway. I find my hands about bounce off the bars I hit a bump. That is how loose a grip I have riding. What this guy thought of a second time, only made it worse. If he picked up on the first time how stable the bike was dragging him down the track, he would have had, in my opinion, a better chance of keeping that bike stable if he removed his hands off the bars. Gyroscopic stabilization is better off left on it's own comeback.
Like I've said before, I can count the crashes where I need my toes to keep the recordings in step. Which brings me to the conditioning I developed during ground contacts without said bike under my rear end. The day I threw away the first 14, I found myself to begin the Zen/Gregorian type mental discipline of, "forced relaxation."
When I woke up from sliding off the back from that locked throttle wheelie, I felt the burning sensation I remember when I woke up from a concussion down turn 10 at the old Sears Point track. The instant I knew I was sliding and grinding one side of my body down, my immediate reaction was to relax and begin the tumble session. I needed an immediate redirection off of the ever diminishing layers of dermis that where leaving the shoulder/knees and arms.
I recall receiving a tip way back, say decades ago from a Hollywood stuntman? I used to stand on the bed and just drop. Still in bed, I would tense up laying down on my back. I would relax the muscles. Then I would relax them again. If I could dig deep, I would relax again, so I would have a deep think [consciously reminding myself to relax] before I would try to stand up. That is the worst thing to do. I just rode them out till they stopped. You can tell after awhile. Tell me you lay that rubber back down tied to your feet you cannot see you will go right back down still at speed. You cannot run fast enough let alone walk. It's fun the first time it happens and you learn crashing down to the toes is walk away from them. Worked for me all these years.
Think 200... Good luck boys/girls ... No 'Raggedy Ann' Rag Dolling.
"Stay Loose Howlie"
Romans
Location: Toronto,ON
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