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Davis, in Yolo County, reeks of spoiled tomatoes in late summer.

Succinctly, I've got a wind problem at speed. They've got an inertia problem at startup. I've drafted trucks up to 50 MPH from a standing stop.
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What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?

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New I used to play that
In high school, if I could find a suitably boxy truck to get behind, I would ride with traffic on a road that had a speed limit of 35, so of course most traffic was 40-45. Remembering when you were approaching the spot with the potholes (and frequently large chunks of asphalt freshly knocked out of them) was more than trivially important.

Also used to do it on a '73 Yamaha RD350 on the Jersey Turnpike. That's a small two-stroke twin that was 13 years old at the time, and a stretch of highway where there are no shoulders to speak of and traffic does 85 with just over a car length of separation. While I could cruise at 85 with very little throttle, it didn't occur to me that I was riding an air-cooled bike way faster than it was designed to cruise, while starving it for fresh air. All this came into focus when the engine seized in the left lane with trucks in front, to the right and behind me.
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New Ooooh.. Good ^h^h er Bad one..
And I'd have to admit too, that the now Obvious.. might not have entered My pretty-little head either :(

(Though it did enter.. on a matter of lesser importance: not a great idea to be idling around town on one's multi-cylinder *air* cooled machine when it's >90\ufffd outside.) Folks smarter than either of us - bought a cyl. head temp gauge!

I remember the RD-350: it was vastly too-fast for its Bad handling (a bad mix also with a ~16 yo newbie finding out the hard way about: short wheelbases and physics, at the same time).

Helped my SO get a new -250; it handled surprisingly well. Both showed what the Japanese could extract from a 2-stroke: eat lots of 'things' for lunch..

Another lunacy: coasting!

At top of a long wind-y downgrade. Kill engine, get: the Worst of both bicycling and [inert] motorcycling. Since it's a race, you have to keep sorta off the brakes yet still make the turns. I think.. it was a learning experience of a sort re. finding the very best line. For those who want to scare selves. Contrary to intuition (f=ma?) IIRC the lighter bikes usually won via ~ handling nearer to bicycles, further lean angles possible w/o power.. (not sure of that)


A Survivor
     Outlaw - (kmself) - (20)
         You devil you! Pretty cool, really! :) -NT - (Meerkat)
         I've never gone that fast.... - (slugbug)
         Anyone remember the train + bicycle guy? - (Ashton) - (4)
             Tomato trucks - (kmself) - (2)
                 I used to play that - (drewk) - (1)
                     Ooooh.. Good ^h^h er Bad one.. - (Ashton)
             Saw a pic somewhere sometime of a Porsche 911... - (CRConrad)
         You remind me of an old friend... - (ben_tilly) - (1)
             Teenage pastime: racing Porsches - (kmself)
         Funny - I'm guessing, if any of you thought of *me* as... - (CRConrad)
         Jeez - (wharris2)
         57.5 -NT - (kmself) - (4)
             Rock!! -NT - (Meerkat) - (1)
                 Hope Not! A rock at that speed could HURT! -NT - (Steve Lowe)
             Then it's time to trade-in that M$- toy-like 'helmet' - (Ashton) - (1)
                 More to the point, E =0.5 mv^2. Dissipating that energy... - (a6l6e6x)
         59.9 - (kmself) - (3)
             59.9% Guaranteed... - (folkert) - (2)
                 Now.. now..___Perspective! - (Ashton)
                 OR:___Life________is something you don't get out of__ alive. -NT - (Ashton)

If I wanted conversations like that, I'd talk to my girlfriend on the phone.
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