Reality check.....a 125GP with half decent rider will run circles around you on just about any road course. And that's a fact jack.
With due respect Dances Ms Peel retains the 125 skinny stable tire cornering grip and easy fling around with advantage of delicate tire spin control of hi hp bikes in a frame that can not be upset out of normal leaned two tire contact counter steering until forcing a crash like let go by seeming over doing of lean fork snatch or power spike. This skinny vs fat tire issue has been thoroughly investigated by me to know what i like and lost repect for ballooon tires but for bee lines. I've been to the mixed class races 125cc, 250's and 45 cid Indians plus Seeley racer telling me 125's get around him. I saw floppy eared Indian with super compliant frame wobble and sprong around a leading 125 by planting more power leaning harder and turning sharper on inside with 125 trying hard to cut that path off but Indian shoot two bike lengths ahead then they hit straight WOT and didn't chance an inch in position all the way to next turn, so power matched perfectly.
I don't look at Indians or 125's as worthy competition to Ms Peel, in case you don't know the facts of the matter a good 600 to 1000 cc sports bike can enter go though and leave about toughest turns like 50 mph faster than a 125. If you ain't got the elite's in your sights on a vintage Norton Commando or what ever, oh well, I sure do. It ain't me its the tri-linked frame solution. Every bike I get on I work up foul limits then at full foul limits creep up on tire skip out power spikes, then at full lean and full traction I creep up on fork sharpness. This is the max loads a bike can take and still stay in counter steering control. Every bike but one lets go on me in surprise with just a wee bit of extra lean or throttle or steer, but one. Anything less than this to me is just a relaxing easy rush into expanding wide opens. ya have to back off other bikes into decreasing radius turns, not Peel no Sir Ree Bob, she invited making every mild turn a series of decreasing radius just for some slightly unpredictable pilot skill thrills on pavement security .
We spoke of Drouin power and you and others have mentioned some hindrance to the Commando fling ease. Pashaw man when you are entering 10 mph switch back chicanes at over 50 mph = 75 ft/sec on broken frost heaved bluff face wagon trail hwy with 9 ft wide lanes you must stay in side of d/t blind encounters there is nil time for any human delay in power or speed for control reactions to hit, so Peel uses pure power to trip herself down to almost instantly crash back up in new direction essentially upright on WOT into the next snatch down fly up > topping out on 21 tooth ratio 2nd gear red zone. To do this type turning requires shooting right up to paint lines but not touching them. Ms Peel was so nice she created a safety practice game on commutes of seeing how close to outside paint line she could run and not slip on it, because if I didn't the leans were so low it put my head across the yellar lines or over the broken down railings on inside of turns. To go faster Ms Peel needs more power not more handling capacity, which is totally solved-done on Peel as far as I'm concerned or brave enough to use. Well two things Peel could use, when doing a switch back jerk down fly up cresting apex - 2 gallon space in IS tank allows 4 gallons inertial delay smack on lifted forks the opposite direction I just snatched em - so throws Peel off her line while air borne into opposite lane, so a baffle needed for that size tank, and ground effects lift and drop her slightly unpredictability, which is a non issue on elites maybe but life death on Peel few mere inches to spare from forever over. To recover this literal Tank Slap uspet is what really tested me and Peel aimed about 90' across road and only distance of mid lane awy from paint line to turn about 90's again at about 50 mph/ 75 ft/sec. or fly off edge into tree tops some distance below.
The hook turn at Barbers is like 3 x's wider lane and twice as mild a radius as what is know as " The Jasper Disaster" by the rest of the world, with 3 miles of chicanes so close ya can throw a rock from one apex to another. The Punca section out of the Buffalo River Lost Valley is what I'm talking about
http://www.tourdehills.com/jd.html
Camera lens angle and lean ability and speed disguise the sharpness but note that AR finally stopped replacing guard rails on inside of turns and just gets wiped out by next truck trying to straddle rail so not to hit on coming.
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE43gw08MMw[/video]
Someday I hope others join in the road going water skiing organisms as its funner than sex! Glance at avatar for my sense of close call G's in turns Peels gives.
