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Post #192,078 by Ashton 1/28/05 6:00:17 AM Reply	Oooohhh.. Another biker! And with good taste.. lovely ride. And BRAKES. And Italian. (Pity, my back wouldn't much like the 0-100 and stopped in 15 sec stuff. Probably also for the best, that.) Guy I bought my car from had a new ZX-13? 14? whatever it was up to in '02. But a ricer isn't in the same chassis class as yours, even if 190 mph is almost enough of a Statement. I guess. Was thumbing a cycle mag recently; seems one can now spend $250K USD for certain specials. Nutzo - might as well toss in another 150K and go for the Bugatti. (The 99% merely get to look at what the bored 1% does with all their winnings: fill air conditioned garages with dozens of Titanium things. Show to friends.) And then you die. At least you Euro folk have some places to play at 300 kph :-) Ashton Vrooom
Post #192,211 by scoenye 1/29/05 8:31:14 AM Reply	And a nice place it is too... Ducati is kind enough to rent the Spa-Francorchamps F1 track at least once a year. Marvellous place. Even the bigger bikes will run out of legs on the front straight, and those who dare can do the same through the last three turns. The ZX is up to 12 now. I did have a ZX-11 for a couple of years. No class whatsoever, but an incredible sensation when you opened it up. Too bad it could only do it in a straight line. Somewhere in time I ended up taking a track class and decided I liked the corners better. So the big lug went out and I switched to supersports. Plenty of performance for the streets and much easier on the tires...
Post #192,287 by Ashton 1/30/05 7:39:55 PM Reply	Re: And a nice place it is too... Indeed.. it's the swervery which produces transcendent states of the timeless kind, brings out all the nuances of that inner ear sensor and other poetic things. It's ballet, pure and simple; the other is just Apache dance thuggery ;-) Dragstrip stuff is just F=MA - and after Col. Stapp's little 500ish mph-to-0 stop on that rocket sled: It's Been Done. As I mentioned here long ago.. having been briefly lent a pukka amateur racer's Norton ride, to try Ramsey Hairpin and environs on the {bawll} Isle Of Man (the day prior to the TT) ... that's as close as I've been to being ON a real course. (No wait-- there was a demo ride with some cohorts, eons ago (before Muricans had the foggiest WTF a 'TT' might be) -- and the prize was: to take one Diana Dors around for a 'victory' lap; alas.. a "cohort" cheated! I was 2nd and missed becoming ever-so-briefly, a Dors sandwich. Oh well.) Trust you will.. leave the 2-wheel drifts to the folks who got their first bike at age 2 and never learned what Fear is. I don't think one can undo that, once learned. Cheers

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