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- From: bsstrs@gdr.bath.ac.uk (T R Stickland)
- Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
- Subject: Re: CBR600F2 dethroned by '93 ZX-6. Whine......whimper!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.134143.25793@gdr.bath.ac.uk>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 13:41:43 GMT
- References: <1993Jan18.202539.1614@megatek.com> <1993Jan20.154406.4372@gdr.bath.ac.uk> <C17r6K.M2o@news.iastate.edu>
- Organization: School of Biological Sciences, University of Bath, UK
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- In the referenced article, tomes@iastate.edu writes:
- >In article <1993Jan20.154406.4372@gdr.bath.ac.uk> bsstrs@gdr.bath.ac.uk (T R Stickland) writes:
- >
- >>One was on a GSX-R750, the other on a GSX-R1100. Both had full race-style
- >>leathers, race boots, knee-sliders, etc. No luggage or anything.
- >
- >Which probably meant that they liked their skins and didn't want the impediment
- >of having to pick up all the excess padding if they bite the big one.
-
- You may be right, but they looked like total poseurs. This seems like the
- most likely explanation.
-
- >
- >Maybe these guys saw you two loaded to the gills and decided that they didn't
- >want to mix it up with someone they didn't know in a foreign country.
- >
- [etc]
- >
- >If I were in a foreign country, and saw a couple of native types blasting
- >around, I would probably get out of their way, then MAYBE if I was the
- >adventurous type try to follow. Probably not, it would depend on how illegal
- >it was.
- >
- >Get a clue. Not everyone is out there to kill corners all of the time.
-
- OK, I'll make myself clearer. It was a twisty road and we caught up with
- them in about a mile or two. They were going dead slow before seeing us,
- couldn't say if they got fatser when we appeared.
-
- They weren't not going fast, they were going excrutiatingly slow. We are
- _not_ quick (like I said about the old GS550 etc...), esp. not loaded up
- like this, and these guys were so slow we couldn't do anything but get
- seriously held up. OK, we could have stayed behind, like we could have
- not bothered overtaking the tour busses, tractors, grandmothers on bicycles...
-
- These guys wre dressed to look like racers, and they were _so_ slow as to be
- clearly incompetant, they weren't just taking it easy. Hard to describe but
- their style was just... well they didn't have any. They didn't know what
- to do with corners. You could tell. It was _that_ obvious.
-
- And what were they doing with their right hands? Well we have a word for
- people like that (can't ride/drive but go too fast in straight lines since
- that's all they can manage), I assumed you did too...
-
- Can't be bothered to say any more on the subject after this post.
-
- --
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