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** SPOILERS!** Random Motorcycle thoughts unworthy of a new thread

Tip for watching MotoGP without all the Blah Blah Blah...

While watching on a desktop/laptop the icons on the bottom of the screen can be selected by dragging them onto the main screen. Those icons include three of the top rider's on-bike cameras, the helicopter shot, and regular camera. Another icon is "ambient sound," this allows viewing the race with out commentary.

Watching MotoGP with only ambient sound can be a beautiful thing hearing just the bikes, crowd, and post race interviews.
 
budman said:
This has worked well in the polsink. You have a thought but not really thread worthy, but there we have a spot. It has led to some insightful discussion.

Thought to myself.. heck we are a motorcycle forum and I am always thinking about motorcycles and not all thoughts are worth throwing out a new thread. So giving it a try.

So..

Is being a fan of Dakar like being in a small book club??

There might be 6 of us discussing it in the thread.
I have asked a few moto heads if they are following Dakar and I usually get a yes.. "Who is ahead?"

If you don't know you are not following. :twofinger :laughing

Ricky Brabec is leading FWIW :flag
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I wouldn't join a small book club, the print is really hard to see.

But Dakar racing stuff is cool. I often did hunting trips to Baja and we'd ride around like Zorro, hunting wild boar. (Bandoleros, Winchester 94) Still recall almost getting attacked by one of those mfs but my little Husky Cross was outta there.
You'd think it should be You hunting them, right? Haha.
Racing away from wild Pigs in the desert, not the Sahara exactly but...
 
budman said:
Here is a good one.

Does HWY 130 up to Lick really have 365 turns??
I love the road and feel like I should count them :laughing

I wonder how that compares to 108.... to 4.... to Legget? :teeth
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Legget can be a crap shoot, especially in the rain.
Having traveled to Fart Bag numerous times, partly to have a home base to use as the Gateway to Legget's juicy corners, and then carefully navigated through rivers of water, mud and rain.
4 may be my 2nd favorite CA road, after Oro-Bucks Lake Road. I started going there alone, though, after twice spending the day untree-ing and triaging riders that got in over their abilities.
108...certainly the most scenic and has the best Fishing at the Eastern end...and those switchbacks...yow.

Hammy was fun when I lived in Oakland. Include a few others in a day long ride, like Calaveras, Palomares, Redwood, Mines...Del Puerto
That's a lot of corners!
However , last time I came over to the East Side, and was up that way, there were a lot of Car Squids, most of them driving like some foo , seewhatimsain? Not good, in fact twice I came face to face with mfs directly ahead of me, in my lane.

The answer is clearly to do what I've been doing up in West Marin...Get up Way Too Early, 2 shots of espresso, and out dee doh.

And one word of advice, do not ride a road called Fish Rock on an R1...mkay?

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As a side note: Leggitt got mostly repaved last year.
 
Lonster said:
As a side note: Leggitt got mostly repaved last year.
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I rode it after the repave before they striped it. All black in the shadows made it a lot harder to follow.
 
Lonster said:
As a side note: Leggitt got mostly repaved last year.
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I motored up there to ride it just afterwards ,but alas was battered senseless by giant raindrops, driven by vicious Pacific Gales.

Still, better than staying home.
 
moto-rama said:
I motored up there to ride it just afterwards ,but alas was battered senseless by giant raindrops, driven by vicious Pacific Gales.

Still, better than staying home.
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I managed to catch it on the way home from a trip up north, wet, fresh asphalt still had some extra oil or something as a handful of turns in I felt the entire bike sliding a bit sideways through a corner. That definitely resulted in a severely reduced pace for the rest of that section.
 
N4teTheGreat said:
I managed to catch it on the way home from a trip up north, wet, fresh asphalt still had some extra oil or something as a handful of turns in I felt the entire bike sliding a bit sideways through a corner. That definitely resulted in a severely reduced pace for the rest of that section.
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On the PLUS side, it's always a good time to practice and get comfortable with sliding a little. That way, when it happens unexpectedly, you don't panic but instead let your muscle memory react for you.
 
Above average humans experiencing super human adrenaline and moments in time.

So F’ing cool.
 
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