Topic: Who says Goldwings don't handle like sport bikes?

[tbone]

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! 

[GoatBaSS]

WHA HOOOO!

[DammitDan]

Yeah mate, but you could scrape the pegs and exhaust on an XS850 on the freeway, they're no Ducati,  ha ha! Cheers, Terry. 

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 )

[Uncle Ernie]

"I thought you'd be use to rides like that. It is, after all, about in your back yard! 
[/quote]

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.

[DarkRider]

wouldnt that be being safe as in making sure their buds dont find a nasty lil suprise around the bend?

[malcolmgb]

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 

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.

[Terry in Australia]

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 )

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.............. 

[unkle fester]

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..........

[FunJimmy]

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.

Amazing!

[754]

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...

[FunJimmy]

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.

[754]

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

[FunJimmy]

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.
Really like the old bikes and the great people too.

FJ