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Author Topic: Now THAT'S one helluva rider!  (Read 1346 times)


Offline Julio A.

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Re: Now THAT'S one helluva rider!
« Reply #1 on: August 09, 2011, 08:16:18 AM »
My dad had me watch a video titled "Ride like a pro" which was basically a motorcycle officer showing how to do very tight cornering on a Harley with his police taught techniques.

Look at this similar video, It's scary how he pulls the bike like that.  ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWaq0zOaAVU&feature=related

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Offline marcmax

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Re: Now THAT'S one helluva rider!
« Reply #2 on: August 09, 2011, 01:15:59 PM »
I was at a charity motorcycle event a few years ago and our local Sheriff's motorcycle squad was putting on a demo of riding skills just like this. One of the deputies was smaller than me, probably 5"5" or 5'6", and to see him through that big Harley around was amazing. At one point two of them were doing intertwining figure 8's in a space not much bigger than the bike was long. It was impressive!
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Offline Barry

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Re: Now THAT'S one helluva rider!
« Reply #3 on: August 10, 2011, 03:54:31 PM »
I've seen a couple of police video's like that ... truly astonishing and very humbling.
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Offline nhmaf

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Re: Now THAT'S one helluva rider!
« Reply #4 on: August 10, 2011, 11:29:29 PM »
He is a good rider, it certainly helps to have a bike with a very low CofG for that type of work.    I try to do some less radical version of this with my R65LS in my driveway.  But, trying it with my Concours, which weighs about 250 pounds MORE than the R65, AND which has a 7.5 gallon fuel tank mounted way up high, I am much more, uh, chicken..
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Re: Now THAT'S one helluva rider!
« Reply #5 on: August 17, 2011, 06:14:40 PM »
Wow, and I thought we were being tough guys when we pulled off a Figure 8 within 2 parking spaces in the riding class I took to knock off the rust when I bought the '82!  ;D

Offline Air4Life

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Re: Now THAT'S one helluva rider!
« Reply #6 on: August 21, 2011, 09:10:01 AM »
Outstanding!  Do you think he had coffee and donuts in his system... couldnt hurt?
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