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operationnorthwoodz uploaded a new video
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Rookie rider on the Dragon US129 at Deals Gap, Tennessee.
Telling the Truth in Motorcycle Crash Statistics
http://piratenews-tv.blogspot.com/200...
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Rookie rider on the Dragon US129 at Deals Gap, Tennessee.
Telling the Truth in Motorcycle Crash Statistics
http://piratenews-tv.blogspot.com/200...
"The median pre-crash speed was 29.8 mph, and the median crash speed was 21.5 mph, and the one-in-a-thousand crash speed is approximately 86 mph. Motorcycle riders in these accidents showed significant collision avoidance problems. Most riders would overbrake and skid the rear wheel, and underbrake the front wheel greatly reducing collision avoidance deceleration. The ability to countersteer and swerve was essentially absent."
-Dr Harry Hurt PhD, USDOT, The Hurt Report: Motorcycle Accident Cause Factors and Identification of Countermeasures, 1981
http://www.clarity.net/~adam/hurt-rep...
COUNTERSTEER warning stickers
http://www.cafepress.com/dealsgapdrag...
MSF censors Countersteering from all government motorcycle license tests
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorcyc...
Motorcycle Safety Foundation 1,500 schools mostly run by off-duty cops
http://www.msf-usa.org/
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operationnorthwoodz uploaded a new video
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"I had to ride my new Ducati Multistrada 5mph below the yellow warning signs. It was the most jarring motorcycle experience I've had in 40 yea...
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"I had to ride my new Ducati Multistrada 5mph below the yellow warning signs. It was the most jarring motorcycle experience I've had in 40 years. I thought I had a brain tumor. It's like forgetting how to walk. It's like somebody turning off the circuit telling you right from left. When I went back on the KLR proved the Ducati was an anomaly. It's like gravity no longer applies. It's the freakiest thing to happen to me in 40 years of riding motorcycles. Like the twilight zone. You have no clue what's gonna happen next."
-Dave Despain from Speed TV (1st ride on a V-twin Ducati on Pirelli tires), SidestandUp Radio, Epp 132 Oct 2009
http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-644...
http://sidestandup.com
"Tires with a sharp triangular profile tend to steer more quickly than do those with a rounder profile."
-Sportbike Performance Handbook
"Triumph Daytona 600 with Pirelli Diablo Corsa tyres: The bike Paul Young championed on the track for its front end, the Triumph, is the one to find fault with on the road. At slow speed, mini-roundabouts or turning right from a standstill, the Triumph falls a little too quickly into the turn. Sometimes you almost have to 'counter-countersteer' to stop yourself turning too tight as the weight of the front wheel pulls the bars round and creates too much lean angle. OK, it really isn't a major fault but a nervous rider on a brand spanking new bike wont enjoy it and its certainly something you don't find on the bikes with 60 or 65 section tires."
-Superbike, May 2004
2004 Triumph Daytona 600 Road Test: "We did notice the Daytona's tendency to fall into the corner once past the halfway point in its lean angle, though we would attribute that trait to the tires. Our test unit came equipped with standard Pirelli Diablos, while the OEM fitment is a special "T" model of the Diablo. We weren't able to get the Diablo T tires in time for the test, so we can't positively blame the handling idiosyncrasy on the bike's rubber, but when we slapped on a set of Michelin Pilot Race H2 street/track radials for racetrack testing, the fall-in tendency disappeared."
-Sportrider
Question: "Everyone says that riding for Ducati is completely different to riding for any other team. Is that right?"
Nicky Hayden: "I've only ever ridden Hondas in GPs so it's not like I could tell you from having ridden them all. Sure, it feels a lot different to the Honda, in how you go about the set-up, but also the tyres are so different. It's hard for me to know what's the tyres and what's the motorbike. This morning was quite frustrating because I really felt like I could make some progress this afternoon and be competitive."
"With most of the field running Ducati motorcycles, the championship received the derogatory title 'the Ducati Cup'. The most significant was that from 2004 the teams have had to run on Pirelli control or 'spec' tyres. The decision to award the control tyre to Pirelli was controversial. The Pirelli tyres were considered to be below the standard of Dunlop and Michelin that most of the teams had been using. Dunlop looked to take legal action against the decision."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superbik...
Tire and bike setup for the Dragon with round vs triangular tires
http://www.easttnriders.com/forum/sho...
636 curves, sometimes 36 cops and usually no ambulances in every 22-mile lap, with 5 deaths so far in 2009
http://DealsGapDragon.com
Dragon Store
http://cafepress.com/DealsGapDragon
Pirate News Radio Show
WBCR 1470am
Pirate News TV
Knoxville TN USA
http://PirateNews.org
Fair use for non-commercial news commentary per 17 USC 107
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operationnorthwoodz uploaded a new video
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Triumph motorcycles on the Dragon US129. Comparison of Pirelli Diablo, Dunlop, Bridgestone. Video by an $80 GE A835 8-megapixel digital camera on a...
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Triumph motorcycles on the Dragon US129. Comparison of Pirelli Diablo, Dunlop, Bridgestone. Video by an $80 GE A835 8-megapixel digital camera on a $20 monopod (that amplifies sound on the pavement).
"Tires with a sharp triangular profile tend to steer more quickly than do those with a rounder profile."
-Sportbike Performance Handbook
"Triumph Daytona 600 with Pirelli Diablo Corsa tyres: The bike Paul Young championed on the track for its front end, the Triumph, is the one to find fault with on the road. At slow speed, mini-roundabouts or turning right from a standstill, the Triumph falls a little too quickly into the turn. Sometimes you almost have to counter-countersteer to stop yourself turning too tight as the weight of the front wheel pulls the bars round and creates too much lean angle. OK, it really isn't a major fault but a nervous rider on a brand spanking new bike wont enjoy it and its certainly something you don't find on the bikes with 60 or 65 section tires."
-Superbike, May 2004
2004 Triumph Daytona 600 Road Test: "We did notice the Daytona's tendency to fall into the corner once past the halfway point in its lean angle, though we would attribute that trait to the tires. Our test unit came equipped with standard Pirelli Diablos, while the OEM fitment is a special "T" model of the Diablo. We weren't able to get the Diablo T tires in time for the test, so we can't positively blame the handling idiosyncrasy on the bike's rubber, but when we slapped on a set of Michelin Pilot Race H2 street/track radials for racetrack testing, the fall-in tendency disappeared."
-Sportrider
"I had to ride my Ducati 5mph below the yellow warning signs. It was the most jarring motorcycle experience I've had in 40 years. I thought I had a brain tumor. It's like forgetting how to walk. It's like somebody turning off the circuit telling you right from left. When I went back on the KLR proved the Ducati was an anomaly. It's like gravity no longer applies. It's the freakiest thing to happen to me in 40 years of riding motorcycles. Like the twilight zone. You have no clue what's gonna happen next."
-Dave Despain from Speed TV (on Pirelli Diablo Corsa tires), SidestandUp.com Radio, Epp 132 Oct 2009
http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-644...
Question: "Everyone says that riding for Ducati is completely different to riding for any other team. Is that right?"
Nicky Hayden: "I've only ever ridden Hondas in GPs so it's not like I could tell you from having ridden them all. Sure, it feels a lot different to the Honda, in how you go about the set-up, but also the tyres are so different. It's hard for me to know what's the tyres and what's the motorbike. This morning was quite frustrating because I really felt like I could make some progress this afternoon and be competitive."
"With most of the field running Ducati motorcycles, the championship received the derogatory title 'the Ducati Cup'. The most significant was that from 2004 the teams have had to run on Pirelli control or 'spec' tyres. The decision to award the control tyre to Pirelli was controversial. The Pirelli tyres were considered to be below the standard of Dunlop and Michelin that most of the teams had been using. Dunlop looked to take legal action against the decision."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superbik...
Banned from factory Triumph Daytona 600 forum for dissin Pirelli tyres
http://www.daytona600.org/viewtopic.p...
Tire and bike setup for the Dragon
http://www.easttnriders.com/forum/sho...
636 curves, sometimes 36 cops and usually no ambulances in every 22-mile lap, with 5 deaths so far in 2009
http://DealsGapDragon.com
Dragon Store
http://cafepress.com/DealsGapDragon
Pirate News Radio Show
WBCR 1470am
Pirate News TV
Knoxville TN USA
http://PirateNews.org
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operationnorthwoodz uploaded a new video
(1 month ago)
DIY homebrew reverse trike, sportbikes and cruisers on the Dragon US129. Video by an $80 GE A835 8-megapixel digital camera on a $20 monopod (that ...
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DIY homebrew reverse trike, sportbikes and cruisers on the Dragon US129. Video by an $80 GE A835 8-megapixel digital camera on a $20 monopod (that amplifies sound on the pavement).
636 curves, sometimes 36 cops and usually no ambulances in every 22-mile lap, with 5 deaths so far in 2009
http://DealsGapDragon.com
Dragon Store
http://cafepress.com/DealsGapDragon
Pirate News Radio Show
WBCR 1470am
Pirate News TV
Knoxville TN USA
http://PirateNews.org
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operationnorthwoodz uploaded a new video
(1 month ago)
2008 fatal head-on crash on the Dragon US129 in Tennessee USA. It is almost common to find cars, trucks, bikes and cop cars in your lane every day ...
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2008 fatal head-on crash on the Dragon US129 in Tennessee USA. It is almost common to find cars, trucks, bikes and cop cars in your lane every day on the Dragon, both on "straights" and in blind curves, so beware target fixation, inability to countersteer (steering like a car or trike, or locking arms), and fear of lean angle by inability to drag a knee or scrape floorboards at any speed. "Failure to maintain lane" is a popular traffic ticket for crashes on the Dragon, with 636 curves and 36 cops per every 22-mile lap. Every ride on the Dragon is like a racing school requiring maximum concentration, no matter how slow you go, even when there's no other traffic.
Dragon Death Map: 5 fatal crashes in 2009
http://www.tailofthedragon.com/maps/m...
http://www.thedailytimes.com/article/...
How to drag a knee on the Dragon at 21 mph. Proof that dragging a knee is neither "speeding" nor "reckless driving", and a required skill on any motorcycle to be able to know how to steer quickly in an emergency.
Practice correct body position facing into turn, arms loose, leaning forward with chest on fuel tank, hold on with legs, steady throttle. Adjust radius by countersteering in opposite direction of turn, and by adding weight to footpegs in the direction you want to lean/steer. Pick a radius (30 feet in this case), then increase speed in 1 mph increments until knee drags. DIY strap-on knee pucks using sports knee pads with pucks and tyraps. Try to find a flat parking lot without painted lines, best to get permission from the property owner for "beginner safety practice".
Strap-on knee sliders
http://leeparksdesign.com/eshopprod_c...
Motorcycle suspension alignment using strings, trammell bars and laser beam prove motorcycles may have defective suspension design so beware right hand curves. Setting alignment to zero toe just made it worse. Tire runout versus wheel runout affects alignment so spin wheel and take multiple alignment measurements to get the average. Sag was set front and rear with rider weight, using settings from SportRider magazine. Tire pressure must be lowered below 34 PSI Hot Front and Rear on any curvy road or parking lot to practice.
Deals Gap Store
http://cafepress.com/dealsgapdragon
Free Deals Gap Wallpapers, Biker News, Ticket Defense Info
http://DealsGapDragon.com
"One of the problems with the CBR600 is that it isn't straight. Our ZX9R is the same. The front and rear wheels can be out of line by as much as 10mm."
-Performance Bikes, The Setup, June 2000
"We typically find wheels are 3-4 mm out of adjustment, with one example of over 20 mm. Anything over 10 mm and the customer tends to come back simply unable to believe that we haven't rebuilt the whole bike, as it's been totally transformed back into the neutral handling bike the manufacturer intended. The system can also detect other issues like frame damage, that might otherwise go undiagnosed."
http://www.maxmoto.co.uk/lasertrack.s...
Sportbike Setup Guide
http://www.sportrider.com/motorcycle_...
This video was censored and deleted from SportRider magazine forum and banned from all future posts, and threatened by ban at TriumphRat.net.
http://forums.sportrider.com/70/78386...
http://forums.sportrider.com/communit...
http://www.triumphrat.net/triumph-sup...
Bassic: Tranquility Bass
http://www.lindhe.com
Dagas: Peer the Ionized Clouds
Nebra Skydisk mix by Cardamar
http://www.reverbnation.com/dagas
http://www.cardamar.com/mixes.html
http://forums.di.fm/chillout/nebra-sk...
http://www.chilloutmixes.com/index.ph...
Fair use for non-commercial news commentary per 17 US Code 107
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did you copy and paste that comment or did you actually read it from the book?