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Fun video, Ken. I enjoyed it so much that I had to google Noojee and read up on it a bit. Reminds me of some of the forest roads in Northern California and Oregon, but with different species of trees. And, of course, the fact that you guys ride on the "wrong" side of the road.
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Yes, I rode on a lot of roads that I'd never travelled before. Their wasn't any evidence of roadkill there and I always use that as an indicator. Some roads in Western Australia are literally strewn with bodies. I tried to avoid main roads as much as possible and travel the lonelier stuff where it is practical to do so. Less traffic and more time to soak up the essence of places. The Norton arrives home on Monday. Yay! I've missed it.
Alas it was drowned. Seven hours in the pouring rain up the Hume Highway.
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You were quite correct when you said I haven't ridden much on public roads. In watching that video, I know I would have taken a very different approach to riding on those roads. For me it would be a 'career-limiting strategy'. When I first came to Benalla, I started the Winton Motorcycle Club and we went on a club ride. I got a bit lost at one stage and had to catch up. So I rode from Mansfield to Whitfield over Mount Tolmie at about race speed. As I came around one fairly tight bend, one of our guys was picking his bike up off the road. A utility truck coming the other way had come out wide and hit him with the mirrors - it knocked him off his bike. I simply rode around him as you would on a race track. But it was not good.
I like the way you ride - it is very sensible. In watching that vid. - there were a lot of places where an idiot could come to grief.
I like the way you ride - it is very sensible. In watching that vid. - there were a lot of places where an idiot could come to grief.
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All cycling petal to motor'd requires giving up full control of life events. I don't know any cyclers that have not crashed d/t themselves or others. Singing in the rain on cycles means seeing is reduced/distorted, slick traction to hydroplaning across deeper puddles and often chilled stiff reflexes.
There are rather less crashes in rural areas but they tend to be rather worse than urban collisions which often can see coming but not in narrow twisties so if not always thinking about to be surprised to always riding as much out of the way of wayward traffic could be end of story telling. The best easiest handling lines are not the best survival practices in the wild.
In rural areas more than the actual collision event, its the reflex dodging them causing causalities by impacting the surroundings.
Btw Phil is seasoned flyer to teacher and angry stunt barn stormer so don't need his big kix on cycle performance just pleasure travel.
There are rather less crashes in rural areas but they tend to be rather worse than urban collisions which often can see coming but not in narrow twisties so if not always thinking about to be surprised to always riding as much out of the way of wayward traffic could be end of story telling. The best easiest handling lines are not the best survival practices in the wild.
In rural areas more than the actual collision event, its the reflex dodging them causing causalities by impacting the surroundings.
Btw Phil is seasoned flyer to teacher and angry stunt barn stormer so don't need his big kix on cycle performance just pleasure travel.
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The only modern bike I have ridden was a VFR400 Honda. It did everything perfectly except it was speed limited to 180 KPH. I was unaware of that so got a bit frustrated when it would not go any faster. The guy who was out riding with me was on a GSXR1000 Suzuki. At one stage we approached a bend in a country road which had trees right along the whole outside of it. The guy on the Suzuki went around it on full noise at insane speed. When I road-race, I never stick my neck out at certain places on the circuit because if you go wrong, you are facing a wall. And every circuit presents that situation. To me, a country road often offers intolerable risks.
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I rode my P!! dragster in Florida capital city and Houston mega city to have so many close calls while behaving I eventually couldn't face it and switched to water craft. Then moved to Oarks rural low traffic place with cycles galore out and about to feel like odds in my favor to ride again but found out its as dangerous or more so with many take downs all below 50 mph.
Phil Yates finally contacted me today, after 4 months absence, thinking he might be fed up with me or crashed to death, to find out he had a serious brain stroke from clot let go from a hole in heart but now back in saddle showing me his yellow 750 Commando and a red Trident plus bragging on the women he's flirting with - again.
D/t the rural roughness and surprise take downs even being a sluggard traveling I can't keep a nice finished cycle long such as Yves and others display but do get off seeing what's possible.
Phil Yates finally contacted me today, after 4 months absence, thinking he might be fed up with me or crashed to death, to find out he had a serious brain stroke from clot let go from a hole in heart but now back in saddle showing me his yellow 750 Commando and a red Trident plus bragging on the women he's flirting with - again.
D/t the rural roughness and surprise take downs even being a sluggard traveling I can't keep a nice finished cycle long such as Yves and others display but do get off seeing what's possible.
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