Self steering and top speed

Just can't get this magic of motorcycle antics out of my bone marrow. At one point got so pissed off at breaking stuff off me and bike too damn often I in rage gave it too much gas on purpose to at least have a hand in my own crashing [heard someone screaming in helmet with me] - instead of not knowing why SPLAT. Sort of like crashing ahead of time while still in traction to control it somewhat to get it over with before the apex point, so I was there after lightening up on loads, backing off power fork turn and lean - rest of the way to apex maximum. The nice surprise was bike would lift -pop themselves up doing this, cool! The other neat thing was rear could get far enough out that beside uprighting it also slowed speed in one direction while converting it into another not losing much over all momentum, which allowed better grip to carry on out of there. The nerve wracking part is one must be going slow enough to allow rear spinning thrust yet fast enough one can indeed over power the rear. Its definitely a commit-ed state as needs some pure ballistics to pull off. One must learn bike reactions like musical instrument you know what will sound like striking a certain way, then another.

It can be done on pavement too is the right places if speed and/or power enough on entries. It don't allow wide tangent sliding, no sir ree bob, it jerks bike around sharper tighter just short of really hi siding off surface. Once I got that loose security sense down, sort of - as nothing secure on THE Gravel, I found it easier to steer and control riding the crests of Gravel ruts as no washboards and front had so little load on it it didn't rudder in to snatch out just floating over the marbles dolly wheeling in rhyme with rears thrust. Feels like a jet ski to me with harder surface to splash on. I don't often get near those states on un-tamed Cdo or my balloon tire SuVee but they also behave better on the smoother forgiving crests, just not like Peel could.

Would be wonderful practice if getting some dirt track time but definitely avoid Gravel as no one really masters it. It is for always my Master Teacher that paddle me hard - yelling at me - ignorance of its unwritten rules is no excuse.

Correct, Hobot, I too have spent some time dirt-biking, & racing tiddle bikes on tight tarmac cart tracks, both scenarios allow relatively safer nth degree practice, mind you I did crash twice commuting on wet bloody tramlines here in Melbourne, once rear went, next time front...lesson taken as read..

Yep Sir J.A.W. that off road stuff can never be fully predicted even trying to take it easy it can take ya don't before ya know what happened to cause it, beside putting butt in a saddle. i was first surprised by Peel's completed tri-lingage testing with MX and trials bikes like Gas Gas'ers and 350 RD's and switched out with them for a few pasture and raw forest-brush runs to feel like on a pogo stick so gave up on them and got back on Peel to feel like a boulevard smooth curiser crashing through brush and catching some air over rough surfaces w/o pogoing out of control. Only thing that stopped Peel was hi centering in dug out mogals and ptiching over sharp ravine edges and hitting stumps with just one frame rail to fling sideways to the ground.

Once stunt I want to learn is flying into a garage like 30 mph and come back out at 45+, best place to learn this safer is the turn arounds MX bikes can do on steep loose or grassy hill side where they spin out rear to sling it around over head till aimed back down hooking up for even more power out of there. I could not do this on Peel with only dual purpose tires as she'd just low side before pivoting all the way back down. Could not hop over the 4-5 ft log stacks or 2.5 ft tall tractor tire with pylwood laid on top d/t hi centering.
Next time Peel will have more clearance - if ya hang up on ravine edge instead of blasting right over may not have enough momentum to blast up the other higher side and not just tumble in a heap back to the bottom debris.

Depends on the Halo .

Marty Smith at Saddleback Park wore one , next group back wasnt bad , two groups spaced after .
Every secnd race stopped to cart of a middle buch in a Ambulance . Bit of a worry .

The Machine tune as well as the rider tune probly being as relevant . The rear buch hadnt mastered either but rode to their limits ,
the middle buch couldnt figure out why they were there and tried to hard . High summer and hard ground . Probly revieved with water .

1970s M - X Hairoes . :?