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Re: Who says Goldies don't handle like sport bikes?
« Reply #1 on: November 23, 2007, 12:12:48 PM »
man, i ate lunch while viewing this, and it almost made me puke.  that guy must be pretty good, or have really good insurance.
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Re: Who says Goldies don't handle like sport bikes?
« Reply #2 on: November 23, 2007, 12:25:29 PM »
That's good riding on a GL. The guy behind was working pertty good to keep him in camera range too.  8)

Did anyone watch that one about the avarage HD rider. ??? IMO the HD rider was stupid, ;D but some of the comments blamed the people in the car. ::)
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Re: Who says Goldies don't handle like sport bikes?
« Reply #3 on: November 23, 2007, 12:27:01 PM »
The guy with the cam is riding a Goldie too... just listen to the pegs scrape!!!
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Re: Who says Goldies don't handle like sport bikes?
« Reply #4 on: November 23, 2007, 12:33:17 PM »
A "Goldie" is a BSA- short for Goldstar.

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« Reply #5 on: November 23, 2007, 12:40:45 PM »
sorry.... G O L D W I N G   ;)
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Re: Who says Goldies don't handle like sport bikes?
« Reply #6 on: November 23, 2007, 12:52:00 PM »
WOW Im impressed. Never expected to see a Winger thrown around like that. I thought they were much lower to the earth and couldnt handle corners that way....  8)
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Re: Who says Goldies don't handle like sport bikes?
« Reply #7 on: November 23, 2007, 12:55:02 PM »
A "Goldie" is a BSA- short for Goldstar.

(nice riding, though)

I thought the same. Actually, a Goldstar is indeed a sport bike, so I was confused by the thread title....

I've ridden a Goldwing and they are great bikes. Have a low center of gravity, and even when the wheelbase is long, dragging the knee does a lot to help keeping the bike up and increasing the ground clearance. It would take some -long- practice for me to ride that way on that bike though....

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Re: Who says Goldwings don't handle like sport bikes?
« Reply #8 on: November 23, 2007, 01:46:33 PM »
could you hear the footpegs scrapeing the ground?
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Re: Who says Goldwings don't handle like sport bikes?
« Reply #9 on: November 23, 2007, 03:32:56 PM »
Ha ha, yeah, I've heard the 1800 Goldwings handle quite well with the new improved frame, I pulled a guy out from under his GW1500 a few years ago when he threw it away, lucky for him he'd landed in some soft muddy dirt, so he was ok, but his two wheeled behemoth was looking a bit sad. He'd been chasing a couple of sports bikes when he became all twisted up coming into a 15 MPH corner at about 50. Hmnnnn, it's about 80 deg F outside right now, I might have to go for a ride...............  ;D   
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Re: Who says Goldwings don't handle like sport bikes?
« Reply #10 on: November 23, 2007, 09:25:28 PM »
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Hmnnnn, it's about 80 deg F outside right now, I might have to go for a ride...............     

Rub it in..... rub it in...... enjoy Terry  8)
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Re: Who says Goldwings don't handle like sport bikes?
« Reply #11 on: November 23, 2007, 09:45:46 PM »
....... Hmnnnn, it's about 80 deg F outside right now, I might have to go for a ride...............  ;D   

Come on, Terry. At least use the metric numbers so it sounds cold.


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Re: Who says Goldwings don't handle like sport bikes?
« Reply #12 on: November 24, 2007, 01:53:18 AM »
Have a second look at this.  A couple of times the guy following gets a bit off line and nearly runs out of road (pavement)

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Re: Who says Goldwings don't handle like sport bikes?
« Reply #13 on: November 24, 2007, 01:56:43 AM »
....... Hmnnnn, it's about 80 deg F outside right now, I might have to go for a ride...............  ;D   

Come on, Terry. At least use the metric numbers so it sounds cold.

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Re: Who says Goldwings don't handle like sport bikes?
« Reply #14 on: November 24, 2007, 06:27:35 AM »
Crap, started snowin here last nite....
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« Reply #15 on: November 24, 2007, 07:05:14 AM »
Have a second look at this.  A couple of times the guy following gets a bit off line and nearly runs out of road (pavement)

Rightie-O, John.  I got a little puckery watching that, too.  He was working too hard, IMO...
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Re: Who says Goldwings don't handle like sport bikes?
« Reply #16 on: November 24, 2007, 08:43:14 AM »


       I just go through watching that GoldWing and all I can say is.......






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Re: Who says Goldwings don't handle like sport bikes?
« Reply #17 on: November 24, 2007, 09:06:46 AM »
this is on the same stretch of road, there was a lot of negative comments originally about the car/van driver, to me it was purely bad riding of a Harley.
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Re: Who says Goldwings don't handle like sport bikes?
« Reply #18 on: November 25, 2007, 12:35:29 AM »
Yellow Wolf is apparently a regular rider up on the gap.  He normally is the one filming the runs, though.

Proves that he can easily ride with a sportbike...  I wonder how often people hire him to film their run on their shiny new CBR1000RR and laugh when they see his yellow behemoth.  Only to be outridden by him, of course  ;D
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« Reply #19 on: November 25, 2007, 12:39:38 AM »
there was a lot of negative comments originally about the car/van driver, to me it was purely bad riding of a Harley.

I agree 100%.  There are a lot of stupid people that try to "tame" the dragon with sub par riding skills on overweight, under-maneuverable bikes.

I was riding for 3 years before I even thought about riding on the Dragon.  And even then I took it easy (at least for the first pass...  The second pass on the way back I was scraping pegs and exhausts on my XS850  ;D)
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« Reply #20 on: November 25, 2007, 12:59:57 AM »
The second pass on the way back I was scraping pegs and exhausts on my XS850  ;D)

Yeah mate, but you could scrape the pegs and exhaust on an XS850 on the freeway, they're no Ducati,  ha ha! Cheers, Terry.  ;D
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Re: Who says Goldwings don't handle like sport bikes?
« Reply #21 on: November 25, 2007, 02:01:24 AM »
 :o

I'm not even brave enough to ride my 550 like that, let alone a two-wheeled truck :o


I think Terry's wife went to the same school as mine :-\

Blag yourself a two-year secondment in Bangkok Terry, leave her at home, and then drop the odd subtle hint about your experiences whenever you go out for a drink ;D

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« Reply #22 on: November 25, 2007, 02:14:26 AM »
:o

I'm not even brave enough to ride my 550 like that, let alone a two-wheeled truck :o


I think Terry's wife went to the same school as mine :-\

Blag yourself a two-year secondment in Bangkok Terry, leave her at home, and then drop the odd subtle hint about your experiences whenever you go out for a drink ;D

MrsD had thawed out a treat by the time of my last trip back home 8)

Ha ha, well the company I work for would be way too lousy to pay to send me to Bangkok Crispy, and the wife definitely wouldn't let me go, she doesn't trust me as far as she can kick me, ha ha! ;D
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So I said, "Hey mate, you haven't got any bike boots you don't need, do you?"

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« Reply #23 on: November 25, 2007, 04:38:28 AM »
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Rightie-O, John.  I got a little puckery watching that, too.  He was working too hard, IMO...

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« Reply #24 on: November 25, 2007, 04:44:28 AM »



  He was working too hard, IMO...
What I meant to say was, to me, the lead rider didn't seem to be working hard at all, I thought he looked real smooth.  Picked good lines every time though, at that speed, he must have run that road before,had some racing experience, or had slept with the Honda for the last 30 years.

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« Reply #25 on: November 25, 2007, 06:42:17 AM »
I got a little puckery watching that, too.

I thought you'd be use to rides like that. It is, after all, about in your back yard!  ;D

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« Reply #26 on: November 25, 2007, 06:50:42 AM »
WHA HOOOO! ;)
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« Reply #27 on: November 25, 2007, 07:51:32 AM »
Yeah mate, but you could scrape the pegs and exhaust on an XS850 on the freeway, they're no Ducati,  ha ha! Cheers, Terry.  ;D

Ah true Terry, but at least I was pushing it into corners...  The guy who was riding with me was on a new SV1000 and couldn't keep up with me!   (though it was probably because he didn't want to get pulled over :D)
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« Reply #28 on: November 25, 2007, 10:37:31 AM »
"I thought you'd be use to rides like that. It is, after all, about in your back yard!  ;D
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Right, that's how I could see he was working too hard. 
I notice I've slowed down lately- it takes a lot of energy to keep up the concentration it takes to stay full out all the time- especially on a public road.  Too many folks in pick-ups and Buick Regals don't seem to care about yellow lines around here.  (plus turtles, wild turkeys, snakes, dogs, etc in the road)

I noticed several sportbike riders racing around some of the roads with apparently no regard for safety.  There always seemed to be one or two off to the side taking a break...
Turns out they all have radios.  They take turns sitting in a turn-out and warn of traffic so they know when it's "safe" to roll it on in the wrong lane to pass fogies like me.
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Re: Who says Goldwings don't handle like sport bikes?
« Reply #29 on: November 25, 2007, 10:55:54 AM »
wouldnt that be being safe as in making sure their buds dont find a nasty lil suprise around the bend?
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Re: Who says Goldwings don't handle like sport bikes?
« Reply #30 on: November 25, 2007, 11:55:49 AM »
Yellow Wolf is apparently a regular rider up on the gap.  He normally is the one filming the runs, though.

Proves that he can easily ride with a sportbike...  I wonder how often people hire him to film their run on their shiny new CBR1000RR and laugh when they see his yellow behemoth.  Only to be outridden by him, of course  ;D

any chance of telling us over in the UK where this road is, I would like to go over to Google Earth and take a look at it.
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« Reply #31 on: November 25, 2007, 12:06:39 PM »
The guy who was riding with me was on a new SV1000 and couldn't keep up with me!   (though it was probably because he didn't want to get pulled over :D)

Ha ha, he probably couldn't see through the shower of sparks your pegs, centre stand and exhaust were kicking up! I did a ride day on my BMW R100RS at Phillip Island GP race track a few years ago, and thought that I was a track god as no-one would come near me in the corners, until I realised that they were too frightened that I was gonna take 'em all out with bits of BMW shrapnel, ha ha! Oh well..............  ;D
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« Reply #32 on: November 25, 2007, 12:58:52 PM »
www.tailofthedragon.com            go to maps up at the top and it gives gps coordinates, plus it is a good site to spend some time reading..........

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« Reply #33 on: November 25, 2007, 01:48:01 PM »
In 1998, me and two buddies where touring through Montana on sport bikes having a great ole time. We stopped at some small convenience store gas station to fill up prior to riding an amazing road from Montana to Idaho. Can’t remember what road but it was long and windy for more than 70 miles into Idaho. Anyway, at the convenience store gas station I was chatting with a very old guy riding a Goldwing. The bike had major mileage for a rather new bike and I commented on that fact. This was the second Goldwing he had owned (the other with 75000 miles on the clock). He said that he had lost his wife several years earlier and has been riding his Wing ever since. Long story short: He leaves the station about 10 minutes before we did and it took forever to catch him. When I got within ¼ mile he noticed me and picked up the pace. This guy was flying around a left hand sweeper with a rock face on the right side when his floor board jacked him rear tire off the ground. His bike was bouncing from front tire to rear tire and I chopped the throttle to keep from the debris field. Amazingly he held it together and just kept riding for about 5 miles before pulling over at the rivers edge. I stopped to see if he was OK and he appeared un affected by his almost fatal stunt. I think he didn’t care the least, and if he had died that afternoon, it would have been doing what he enjoyed anyway.

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« Reply #34 on: November 25, 2007, 01:59:11 PM »
Are you talking that road just south of Missoula that comes out near Orifino ID (near Moscow)?? Along the river..


if you are my God did I like that road so much in fact I took it on the way back and stayed the night on a sandbar on the river..

didnt see the Wing tho... ;)

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« Reply #35 on: November 25, 2007, 02:21:26 PM »
That's the one.
I remember a twisty road sign at the Montana end stating curves for 70+ miles or so.
I've gotta get back there real soon.
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« Reply #36 on: November 25, 2007, 02:26:07 PM »
You are from Hongcouver , eh!

 Dou you know Spicer and them guys that ride the old honda twins??.. they used to come up to O'Keefe Ranch for the vintage dirt track.. I ran my 750 on there with a sidecar platform..lol
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« Reply #37 on: November 25, 2007, 04:50:01 PM »
Yup! Down here on the wet coast.

Didn't know your friend Spicer, but I have been to the O'Keefe Ranch.
I just got into the vintage scene this January.
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