Better bike, better rider, or are they all just plain crazy for passing on the inside / outside / in-between all other traffic on the road?
Ducati vs. KTM Video
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Brakelate
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Ducati vs. KTM Video
What can we learn from this?
Better bike, better rider, or are they all just plain crazy for passing on the inside / outside / in-between all other traffic on the road?
Better bike, better rider, or are they all just plain crazy for passing on the inside / outside / in-between all other traffic on the road?
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Tetge
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Re: Ducati vs. KTM Video
I told you when I let you ride my bike, to take it easy on Walker, but, NO! I can tell that it was shot in Mexico as speeds are in KM's and they are all driving on the wrong side of the road and crazy.
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Brakelate
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Re: Ducati vs. KTM Video
Everyone in that video, with possible exception of the camera mounted bike, have a HORRIBLE issue with holding a mid-corner line and speed. They all burn in hot, and go out wide open, but right in the middle third of the corner, they either are afraid to push the traction envelope, get scared off by mid-corner bumps, or have just all ridden together too long, observing and thus duplicating this mistake time and again. They blow out to the outside in every corner's apex point. 
Someone needs to break up that group, go to a track day school or get some kind of instruction, or a different leader. Hell, put the camera on another bike in the back of the pack, and then follow the guy on the lead bike in this video all in a line, right on his wheel. And stay there.
And ok, with all the mid-sized 600-800cc bikes, what happened to the nice looking Ducati (what appears to be a Pikes Peak Edition Multistrada) visible at the start of the ride, right behind the camera bike dude?
Someone needs to break up that group, go to a track day school or get some kind of instruction, or a different leader. Hell, put the camera on another bike in the back of the pack, and then follow the guy on the lead bike in this video all in a line, right on his wheel. And stay there.
And ok, with all the mid-sized 600-800cc bikes, what happened to the nice looking Ducati (what appears to be a Pikes Peak Edition Multistrada) visible at the start of the ride, right behind the camera bike dude?