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What's up with jumping streetbikes?

Re: Re: What's up with jumping streetbikes?

Sidewalk said:
Nice tabletop!
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THIS is a tabletop, and then some.

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Is the first launch pics from thunderhill? I haven't ridden the track but seen some video so I think I see the spot he is doing it at but seems like you would have to be major ballsac to get that much air!
 
Luser Name said:
Is the first launch pics from thunderhill? I haven't ridden the track but seen some video so I think I see the spot he is doing it at but seems like you would have to be major ballsac to get that much air!
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yeah, looks like the top of the small hill-T5
 
1st set of photos is turn 5 in clockwise (reverse) direction. second set of pics are turn 10.
 
dito said:
1st set of photos is turn 5 in clockwise (reverse) direction. second set of pics are turn 10.
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I thought it was T5, but I couldn't figure out the angle. Now that you said reverse, then it all makes sense.
 
dito said:
1st set of photos is turn 5 in clockwise (reverse) direction. second set of pics are turn 10.
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they run thill reverse? woooooh! that would be fun...i like right handers better than lefties... :D
 
Mike95060 said:
Wanna bet this guy had a nasty tank slapper right before he went off roading? Ouch.
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you lose! the guy with the tl is 1 of my room-mates, he had some kind of brake malfunction and couldn't slow down enough to make 10, no head shake.
 
Reports of TLs tankslapping have been highly exaggerated.
 
ALANRIDER7 said:
Once in a great while, Dito manages to get a fairly decent picture. :toothless

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Alan, the first time i saw this pic I thought to myself no way in hell he could wheelie a 600 coming outta that turn. It just didnt seem possible. Then i went out there, threw it over into that turn in 3rd gear, got on the throttle early and up she came. Must just be the steap drop off I guess. Too bad Dito wasnt there to snap the pic.
 
elskipador said:
you lose! the guy with the tl is 1 of my room-mates, he had some kind of brake malfunction and couldn't slow down enough to make 10, no head shake.
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Severe head shake can cause brake malfunction, right? Not saying thats what happened to your buddy, but just that they can be related. Had a guy run off the track at one of my events (just so happens it was between 9&10) once he was off the track he went into such a severe tankslapper his brakes would not work....ran stright off 10 through the fence, bike had to be put in a front loader and literally dumped into his pickup truck.....he got to go for a helicopter ride.

That being said....rode T-hill 5-7 times on a TLS...never had any head-shake issues on it.
 
dito said:
It seems that more and more people are bored with the asphalt and are taking to the air. What's up with that?
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photos above taken by me, Dito.
photos below taken by Paul.
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Dito, looks like I win the Sportbike jump of the decade contest. Do I win free Pics from Got Blue Milk?
-Ken (Crash test dummy on Red Bike)

P.S. Yes Alan, it hurt...er...still hurts.
 
i really amazed you didn't get hurt :wow besides the bruise on your head i had no other visual clues you had a wreck like that!!! pretty crazy. i think i'll go have a look-see @ the tl :teeth
 
TZRTeddy said:
Severe head shake can cause brake malfunction, right? Not saying thats what happened to your buddy, but just that they can be related. Had a guy run off the track at one of my events (just so happens it was between 9&10) once he was off the track he went into such a severe tankslapper his brakes would not work....ran stright off 10 through the fence, bike had to be put in a front loader and literally dumped into his pickup truck.....he got to go for a helicopter ride.

That being said....rode T-hill 5-7 times on a TLS...never had any head-shake issues on it.
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Sometime I get head shake on 9, but that has everything to do with the front end coming up and the wheel not being straight when it comes down. Once i replaced the Rear shock this bike has handled very well. The TL Tankslapping seems to be undeserved. This lap, I didn't have any such issues. I checked my lap timer and I was the fifth 2:12 paced lap I had done that session. It was a very typical lap and not especially fast. I don't think I came into that corner any hotter than usual. Earlier in the day I had come into that same corner a little hot, but was able to slow myself down fine and lean hard and just run onto the rumble strip a little. On this corner I had enough time to pump twice at the beginning and end of the braking zone before I ran off and there was no hydraulic pressure. I usually leave myself a little room for error, but without front brakes and limited runoff - well you can see what happened. The braking problem seems more consistent with a master cylinder problem, which my bike may have always had, but I may have attributed to other things. I had replaced lines, rotors, fluid, pads recently, but hadn't replaced the MC yet. Elskipador will hopefully be able to help me do a postmortem when I get a new front end for it.
 
pauly said:
I'll take that bet. How much? :teeth
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You all lose and should pay Dito for my pics CD asap. My body did a ground slapper, but the bike did not before or after I ran off. I have probably ridden the bike 300 laps at T-hill with both stock and aftermarket suspension and never had any problems with tankslappers. The ducati propoganda machine has infected all of your minds...
 
elskipador said:
i really amazed you didn't get hurt :wow besides the bruise on your head i had no other visual clues you had a wreck like that!!! pretty crazy. i think i'll go have a look-see @ the tl :teeth
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I was hiding my elbow which looks like an eggplant.:wow
 
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