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Anyone ever ridden a WSBK/MOTOGP Bike?
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 10:24 am
by tim
When people talk about these things they use phrases like:
"Only a handfull of people in the world can truly master"
"a completely different experience to any road bike"
"agressive to a whole new level"
etc
So has anyone ridden one?
How different is it to riding a new ZX10?
A 1098S?
A desmo?
Kev Curtin's 1000 Racebike?
Discuss
(thanks Ron
)
Re: Anyone ever ridden a WSBK/MOTOGP Bike?
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 10:27 am
by smithy5
Haven't had the pleasure myself, but I was informed by a reliabe source (Ron) that it is just like riding a monkey bike
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Re: Anyone ever ridden a WSBK/MOTOGP Bike?
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 10:30 am
by tim
Muuuuummm look what he did to my thread!
Re: Anyone ever ridden a WSBK/MOTOGP Bike?
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 10:31 am
by MrWasabi
Locked!
Re: Anyone ever ridden a WSBK/MOTOGP Bike?
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 10:57 am
by Strika
Troy Bayliss' 95 ZX6R SS bike. I thought it was a pig until I got fast on it, then it made sense.
Craggill's ZX7R- FIM SBM, harsh, aggressive, manic power, radical steering geometry and I could only hang onto it for two or three laps.
Ex Doohan RC30- sublime.
Re: Anyone ever ridden a WSBK/MOTOGP Bike?
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 11:23 pm
by sneakypete
Strika wrote:Troy Bayliss' 95 ZX6R SS bike. I thought it was a pig until I got fast on it, then it made sense.
Craggill's ZX7R- FIM SBM, harsh, aggressive, manic power, radical steering geometry and I could only hang onto it for two or three laps.
Ex Doohan RC30- sublime.
i hate you
(not really, just jealous as all hell..)
Re: Anyone ever ridden a WSBK/MOTOGP Bike?
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 11:36 pm
by TITANIUMBULLET
well not a wsbk/gp bike but pretty close. i rode 6 laps around phillip island on fully sorted desmo that a mate owns. it was very stiff in the suspension, the engine was just brutal once you got the revs up!
Re: Anyone ever ridden a WSBK/MOTOGP Bike?
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 6:28 am
by the kid
Here is an opportunity for you Tim
http://rmdmotors.com/2004-kenny-roberts ... s-roberts/
If you buy it , can I have a go please ?
Re: Anyone ever ridden a WSBK/MOTOGP Bike?
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 11:09 am
by tim
Cool, looks like there's some pretty serious machinery been ridden around here
Thanks for the heads-up Billy, if I buy it you can ride it as much as you want
Actually you know what would be cool, if EC/PIRD had a bike like that you could hire at track days.
Re: Anyone ever ridden a WSBK/MOTOGP Bike?
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 3:12 pm
by jefflthomas
helped a mate uncrate the first factory WSBK spec 750 Kawi sent to Canada
DROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLL!!!!.....& that was back then!
........
Re: Anyone ever ridden a WSBK/MOTOGP Bike?
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 8:09 pm
by Daz9R
Lots of interesting bikes on that site.
How about Freddie Spencer's NS500 and NSR250, both for sale as a set.
Or this one:-
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Re: Anyone ever ridden a WSBK/MOTOGP Bike?
Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 6:30 am
by ducati_paul
Off on a slight tangent ..... Is the "Proton" in relation to Kenny Roberts racing the same as the Proton that makes cars?
Re: Anyone ever ridden a WSBK/MOTOGP Bike?
Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 9:33 am
by the kid
Daz9R wrote:[
Lots of interesting bikes on that site.
How about Freddie Spencer's NS500 and NSR250, both for sale as a set.
Or this one:-
73kawasakiF9R.jpg
350 Bighorn motor , but pretty trick with dry clutch .
I think the yanks enjoyed racing them .
A lot of nice stuff on there for sure , but $$$$$$$$$$$