Some Clean Speed

Wow, what an absolute classic!! Reminds me of a road race i was doing (on my bicycle). In a break with one other rider, on a long downhill with moderate bends and we had to pass a guy on a Harley because even accelerating on the straights he was so slow in the corners he was baulking us and the chasers would have caught us.

But the guy in that vid obviously cannot cope with being passed by the rider so puts him at major risk in his insistence on proving the he was 'a fast rider'! Total klutz if ever there was one.
 
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In Germany the new riding style is that groups of riders, not only Harley and also lone some riders they wear a yellow west to be seen by the truck drivers which follow them in a line because they cannot overtake.
I ´ m closer to the video ride but to stiff to get my knees to the ground😉
 
First video: COOL road! Great tyre-scrubber 😁 No comment about the riding, except the lack of gear changes reminds me of my riding after a long day working the lav clutch 🤣🤣
We’ve got roads like that, but waaaaay less traffic... (which isn’t always a good thing: people get complacent and imagine that there is NEVER any traffic, so got to watch for tractors, sightseers, kids on horses, bicycles etc etc)
Oh, and motorcyclists 😉

Second video: 🤣🤨😡🤣🤨😡🤣🤨😡
 
That bicycle video reminds me if a time when I loaded 6 mates with their bicycles into my van and took them up to the top of Mt Wellington (the mountain behind the city of Hobart that has a road all the way to the top). Their intention was to race down the mountain to Constitution Dock in the middle of Hobart. It's a 20km by road with a descent from 1300m to sea level - all downhill except for one slight uphill stretch of about 100m long, so it didn't require much pedalling. They knew that they'd be doing some silly speeds without having to work up a sweat, so they wore their motorcycle gear for safety as well as to keep warm at altitude - full face helmets, leathers, boots, gloves, etc. Not the usual MAMIL kit for pedal cyclists. :)

I took off back down the road in the van before they'd got all togged up to start the ride. A few minutes later, I could see in my mirrors that they were catching up to me pretty quickly. Then they all shot past me doing about twice the 50kph speed limit! All except one of them were in a racing crouch to minimise drag. The last guy to flash past was 50m behind the rest and was stretched out like Rollie Free with his feet sticking straight out behind him, trying to catch up with the peloton - one of the more unusual sights I've seen on the road. I tried to keep up but they overtook a guy on a Harley, a bunch of cars then disappeared around a bend. I didn't see them again until I got to the finish, down at the waterfront. They beat me by a good 5 minutes.
 
I once made the huge error of thinking I could pass a Pelation heading down the Pie in the Sky hill on The Old Rd. There is a straight bit halfway down approx a couple of hundred mitres long between 35k bends and that's where I pulled out, there was probably only 20 or so and I thought it would be easy, as we approached a 35kph bend at 80ks and a bit I was mid pass and on the round side of the road. They had accelerated so hard it caught me out, so I slowly moved back mid-pack, they thankfully gave me room. Never again will I try that one. They were easily at my speed out of the previous bend which really surprised me.
 
chrisk said:
Six bicycles and seven bodies in a van .............. reminds me of a Delhi bus.
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Was a bit like that. It was before the days of health and safety police. The guys and bikes were all just piled in the back of an empty van.

When I was little, a bunch of us kids used to ride for miles in my uncle's trailer and nobody made a fuss about it. I suppose folks back then thought it was just a fun way for kids to travel - which it was. We had a ball doing stuff like that.
 
Got booked for riding an unregistered bike in Lae PNG, no rego, no lights, no horn, no nothing, it was stripped down Yammy DT175. Fined ten Kina
 
chrisk said:
I remember the family car, a Mainline ute with a metal canopy. Mum, dad and baby in the front, 4 boys and Fred (the dog) in the back.
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60’s Chev Ute for us - Mum and Dad and youngest 2 in the front, the 3 older boys laying down on the timber and metal rails in the back, with just a thin blanket if it was cold. Sometimes got soaked to the bone. Never complained. It was fun.
 
In Kathmandu, I had a Honda CM200, Son on the tank then me,daughter behind me and finally my wife on the back, ahhh those were the days:)
Bloody cold in winter but....
 
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When I was a kid, the rugby coach was a builder. We used to unload his flatdeck ute then climb on the back to go to the match, rain or shine. Then back again, muddy and freezing, and chuck all his gear back on before walking home for the longed-for hot shower.
We didn’t mind as long as we won the game 😉
 
T.C said:
In Kathmandu, I had a Honda CM200, Son on the tank then me,daughter behind me and finally my wife on the back, ahhh those were the days:)
Bloody cold in winter but....
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Not sure I'd admit to owning a CM200, Tom. Thankfully you've repaired your motorcycling kudos, and I predict it'll go through the roof when (if) you finally get the 1200 on the road.
 
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ngiles said:
Not sure I'd admit to owning a CM200, Tom. Thankfully you've repaired your motorcycling kudos, and I predict it'll go through the roof when (if) you finally get the 1200 on the road.
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Hey, Kathmandu in the 90's a Japanese made Honda was a pretty cool bike, electric start, reliable, most of my mates had hero Hondas and a few had BSA's but they were always broken down.
 
I've overtaken many cars while cycling downhill if there are enough bends ... in lycra too. Yep, MAMIL gear! Try riding 320ks in mid summer up and down three of the highest mountains in Victoria in jeans and flannies!! Some drivers are polite and see how quickly you come up behind them and move left to let you overtake (left side of road driving remember).
 
And in the car - mum, the old man and the youngest in the front (bench seat) of the FC Holden station wagon, four in the back seat and three of us in the 'back-back' with the rear window flipped open on its top hinges, hanging out the tailgate making faces at the dudes in the following car. 10 of us off to the beach for the day!! Aaah! Memories!
 
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