Frasier Park Sunday - BSA Owners Club

[Tetge]

Nice posts as usual that have no pics to back them up. But, the attached pic doesn't lie about what I was faced with all the time when attempting to follow Brakelate. And, it didn't really matter what bike he was riding. I have lots of video but it takes a lot of time to review the videos. The other pic is from 2009, not long after we got the DR-Z's and it shows Brakelate pulling a victory wheelie as he passes me. after waving me by a bit earlier.

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Here are a couple more screen dumps (hence the poor quality as they were the original GoPro with low resolution). One is on an old 80's Gixer 1000 borrowed that very moment from Josh, who was on Brakelate's DR-Z, and the other is Brakelate on his Busa. On all bikes, new or old, ever ridden before or not, he'd be hanging off and working on wearing out his knee pucks. We do not make this stuff up......

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Of course, I am not saying that he always was out front handing off with a knee down. Sometime he would veer off the road and hit some hidden dirt trail for a little big air as he thought, and no doubt still thinks, that his DR-Z SM is a motocross road racing machine....

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Then there was the maiden ride on his used, it had been sitting for years and the non high performance touring type tires were hard as rocks, Kawi 1200. And, guess how he rode that bike?

I guess that these images are sufficient as a picture is worth 1000 words and although there are hundreds and hundreds in my collection of GoPro videos, I am too lazy to find them.

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And, xbacksideslider only sort of hangs off, but, he leans way over as indicated by this fuzzy shot. In truth, I am fortunate to have survived riding with such fast guys, although when they turned up the wick, they rapidly disappeared from view.

[Brakelate]

I think one of my all time favorite pics was the shot of me passing the Cal City Air Force dude on his DRZ-SM, while on my DRZ, headed down the final big sweeping right hander onto the front "straight" of Horse Thief Mile. He came out to challenge me on his modded DRZ, along with the guy with the modded 610 Husky in the Beginner's (Street Supermoto) class of Sttars, where I had to pass everyone on the brakes, honking their horns at me and everything.

Someone was in the right place at the right time, at great distance, and captured this amazing (to me) photo of me hugging the inside line down the hill (knee down) with Steve on the outside (foot out). Great demonstration of contrast in varied riding styles or the flexibility these bikes have in how you handle them.

That one downhill right hander, slightly banked, all fast and grippy, absolutely killed my right knee slider in one afternoon. Damn near ate a hole through my leathers the size of a Silver Half Dollar, where the slider wasn't quite positioned right for that bend of the knee, angle of lean or whatever.

But, you could just pop it out there, and used it like a Tripod to steady me and fully lean on it through the corner. Keeping the bike upright just that little bit helped me rail that corner and get the drive I needed on to the straight, especially since I was bone stock on shit tires, and he was modded up, on good rubber. He kept crashing out on that step up jump trying to make back time in the dirt section, and finally gave up and never came back out. I later learned that the DRZ would, in fact, very easily chug off 2nd gear from that pavement to dirt berm right hand transition, uphill and instead of "singling" up it, I could "double jump" up the face, landing cleanly up on top of the plateau which is where he kept bobbling and falling down upon landing a little out of shape.

That little DRZ can do some pretty crazy shit - bone stock, with a big fat ass out of shape guy onboard that's for sure. There was more than one unhappy rider on much larger, prepped, "exotic" bikes to go home that day after eating some silly DRZ-SM dust in every moto.

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I think that I will accept Brakelate's post above as an admission of all that I have long said. He is a leaning off, knee dragging, fool and a highly skilled pro motorcycle rider. Which, by itself, is not a bad thing at all, but, for years he used misdirection and disinformation to convince people that I was the pro rider. And, this made a lot of riders happy after they dispatched me, but, some thought that I was sandbagging them, and this was a bit upsetting because I never sandbag and, in fact I consider sandbagging a form of dishonesty or a con. This is the main reason that I never liked bracket racing since it is the home of the sandbagger.

So, now, Brakelate has admitted the truth, and I can rest, although there still is xbacksideslider, another fast pro rider. And, of course, there is that rascal mikedbike2002, who led me into the jaws of death on more than one occasion. But, Mike is not a sandbagger, and, if you underestimate him, and get in over your head, it is your tough luck.

At least this message board has at least one safe and sane rider on it, which is me.

[Brakelate]

One point:

To capture any of that on video or single framed shots, you could have only been one place; RIGHT THERE WITH ME!

You are never left behind, lost, waited for, worried about or anything else. Because when all is said and done, regardless of the pace or antics on the route, we ALWAYS pull in at the end of the ride at the same time. At the turn out, at the restaurant, at the house.

That can only mean that you run right along with the others you called out as "Pro Riders" to have captured and amassed all of this amazing footage. In mass quantity. So it was no one time fluke. Every ride. Every corner, the end of every straight... you were there.

[jhwalker]

Yeh!

[Tetge]

One point:

To capture any of that on video or single framed shots, you could have only been one place; RIGHT THERE WITH ME!

You are never left behind, lost, waited for, worried about or anything else. Because when all is said and done, regardless of the pace or antics on the route, we ALWAYS pull in at the end of the ride at the same time. At the turn out, at the restaurant, at the house.

That can only mean that you run right along with the others you called out as "Pro Riders" to have captured and amassed all of this amazing footage. In mass quantity. So it was no one time fluke. Every ride. Every corner, the end of every straight... you were there.

Good try, but, I have videos of me being dropped going way back to when I first got a GoPro. Now and then you fast guys slowed for one reason or another, presenting photo opportunities, and when I edited the raw GoPro videos I naturally only included video that showed other riders doing their thing since the videos of me riding soio were not exciting or of interest. It now seems that I shall have to devote some significant time and effort into making a documentary of me being dropped on rides. This involves looking at many hours of raw GoPro videos and then editing them into a youtube video. But, have the evidence. I could even include all the kills that got versus me at drag strips, or, do you want to take those back and claim that they were not real?