Author Topic: Would you cross this bridge on your SOHC? (Read 5048 times)

Gordon · « **Reply #1 on:** December 21, 2009, 01:17:48 PM »

Hell NO!!!

But I'd give it a shot on yours!

bill440cars · « **Reply #2 on:** December 21, 2009, 01:23:09 PM »

I wouldn't cross THAT bridge "on foot" much less on a bike! No Way! Not today, not tomorrow!

martin99 · « **Reply #3 on:** December 21, 2009, 02:34:54 PM »

I'd get over it but it'd be a whole lot slippery-er for the next guy!

kslrr · « **Reply #4 on:** December 21, 2009, 03:55:09 PM »

That lools like it's after it had been "upgraded".

tramp · « **Reply #5 on:** December 21, 2009, 04:53:49 PM »

hit the throttle and go like hell
by the time you fall you'll be on the other side
hopefully

74cb750 · « **Reply #6 on:** December 21, 2009, 05:18:57 PM »

You can lead a horse to water....
You can lead a CB750 rider to a bridge....

CycleRanger · « **Reply #7 on:** December 21, 2009, 05:45:23 PM »

ofreen · « **Reply #8 on:** December 21, 2009, 05:50:16 PM »

Looks like the guy got all nervous for nothing. No sweat. ha ha

BeSeeingYou · « **Reply #9 on:** December 21, 2009, 06:10:30 PM »

Quote from: CycleRanger on December 21, 2009, 05:45:23 PM

I was trying to remember the name of this movie. I had only seen it once when it came out years ago, great film. Thanks.

BobbyR · « **Reply #10 on:** December 21, 2009, 06:15:20 PM »

MötleyRöx · « **Reply #11 on:** December 21, 2009, 06:15:50 PM »

Great rider.
Was he holding a cable?
Both feet down only?
Nerve racking on a big tall dual sport, f-650 scary!

Edit: 'Bout forgot to answer the questions, quite possibly, not sure why though.

mick750F · « **Reply #12 on:** December 21, 2009, 06:38:19 PM »

Well Gordon beat me to it Andy but I'd give it a run on your V-Strom. After all, it IS an adventure tourer...right?

Mike

andy750 · « **Reply #13 on:** December 21, 2009, 07:28:05 PM »

I think it would be easier on the 750 Mike ;-)

cheers
Andy

MRieck · « **Reply #14 on:** December 21, 2009, 07:32:16 PM »

Then the friggin kid at the end. Thanks ahole. Excuse me....little ahole

mick750F · « **Reply #15 on:** December 21, 2009, 08:02:35 PM »

Quote from: andy750 on December 21, 2009, 07:28:05 PM

I think it would be easier on the 750 Mike ;-)

cheers
Andy

Ahhh grasshopper. He who seeks the easier way often finds the longer route.

Mike

Duke McDukiedook · « **Reply #16 on:** December 21, 2009, 08:07:16 PM »

Yeah, I would've shoved the kid in the drink too, little bugger.

bucky katt · « **Reply #17 on:** December 21, 2009, 08:48:10 PM »

nope, i dont do heights. no higher off the ground than a tall horse.

Gordon · « **Reply #18 on:** December 21, 2009, 11:37:30 PM »

I think if I had no choice but to take my bike across that bridge I'd probably do it at a much faster pace than that guy did it. I'm not saying I'd race across it, but I'd feel a lot more confident and in control at about 15mph than babying it across like that. Both feet on the pegs and looking straight ahead at the other end of the bridge, rather than waddling it across and taking the risk of losing my footing and dumping it.

I think the hardest part, as long as the bridge held, would be not letting the water moving under you screw up your sense of balance and motion. It would be really hard not to instinctively lean to the left to counteract the fact that your eyes would be telling you that you're moving to the right.

Okay, now I'm getting sick just thinking about it.

BobbyR · « **Reply #19 on:** December 22, 2009, 06:19:56 AM »

The answer is still no.

andy750 · « **Reply #20 on:** December 22, 2009, 07:05:14 AM »

Quote from: BobbyR on December 22, 2009, 06:19:56 AM

The answer is still no.

Come on Bobby where is your sense of adventure!! (I am still smiling at your adventurous flat-tire story last summer

).

Kevin D · « **Reply #21 on:** December 22, 2009, 07:11:14 AM »

I think I see the remnants of the bridge engineers earlier failed effort on the left.

If I saw somebody cross successfully with a larger load like a mule or a cow I might consider it with some other bike, but not with my CB.

westondc · « **Reply #22 on:** December 22, 2009, 07:16:37 AM »

bicycle... why not. motorcycle... no way Jose!

MötleyRöx · « **Reply #23 on:** December 22, 2009, 07:37:32 AM »

Quote from: Gordon on December 21, 2009, 11:37:30 PM

I think the hardest part, as long as the bridge held, would be not letting the water moving under you screw up your sense of balance and motion. It would be really hard not to instinctively lean to the left to counteract the fact that your eyes would be telling you that you're moving to the right.

I was thinking that too.
I also thought I'd go at a slow riding pace, 'til I saw how much the bridge was swaying as well, not to mention the optical illusion of the water rushing underneath you.
Those Beemer guys are nut jobs.

BobbyR · « **Reply #24 on:** December 22, 2009, 07:56:17 AM »

Quote from: andy750 on December 22, 2009, 07:05:14 AM

Quote from: BobbyR on December 22, 2009, 06:19:56 AM
The answer is still no.

Come on Bobby where is your sense of adventure!! (I am still smiling at your adventurous flat-tire story last summer ).

Well Ok since you have called me out. I may under certain circumstances:

1. If I were being chased by flesh eating Zombies.
2. If I had to deliver a life saving Vacine to a remote village.
3. If Angelina Jolie and Meagan Fox were standing on the othewr side and it was a slam dunk I could have them both.

Back in the day we knocked down bridges that looked like that by dropping sandbags on them. Never took more that two direct hits to bring them down.

News:

Author Topic: Would you cross this bridge on your SOHC? (Read 5048 times)

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