Rider grabs rivals front brake at 130 mph!

Some people have a different mentality from others. One of my friends' claim to fame was that he beat Maurie Quincey around a corner on Fishermans' Bend race circuit. The difference was that Maurie actually got around the corner, while my friend went through the straw bales on his back. It is obviously unacceptable to have riders tweaking each others' brake levers - but it is NOT the end of the world. If you cannot cope with idiots such as Romano, you probably should not be racing. I wonder how many of those MotoGP guys who were racing against him when he did that, actually lodged a protest ? Racing is different when viewed from outside the fence.
 
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Some people have a different mentality from others. One of my friends' claim to fame was that he beat Maurie Quincey around a corner on Fishermans' Bend race circuit. The difference was that Maurie actually got around the corner, while my friend went through the straw bales on his back. It is obviously unacceptable to have riders tweaking each others' brake levers - but it is NOT the end of the world. If you cannot cope with idiots such as Romano, you probably should not be racing. I wonder how many of those MotoGP guys who were racing against him when he did that, actually lodged a protest ? Racing is different when viewed from outside the fence.
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I guess it the folks on other side of fence pay admission and make pro racing possible ? What they think counts or should .....
Craig
 
While racing pro flattrack in the early 70's We had 2 guys that were rivals in the 350 class. One day, while leading, they were hard at it and in the middle of a corner of a 1/2 mile oval when one of them attempted to hit the other guys shifter with his foot. He got the strap from his steel shoe caught on the shift lever and both of them had to pull off the track. I was behind them and saw this myself close up. We were amazed that they did not crash.
Once at the Road America AMA Superbike race I saw one rider run up alongside another in the crowded 1st turn. He ran his brake lever into the other guys handlebar and went as they say "arse over tea kettle". He was not prepared for the hard baking and the bike flipped over front ways.
 
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I guess it the folks on other side of fence pay admission and make pro racing possible ? What they think counts or should .....
Craig
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'Should' is not does. The best racing occurs where the bikes are all of the same general type. However most road racing is run to suit the preferences of the major motorcycle dealer / importers . It does not look good if your bike cannot compete with others who have the same degree of development difficulties. So many classes are 'run what you brung'. Then if you get beaten, you always have an excuse. MotoGP is different to most other road races - the bikes are at the limit of their development - a winner is not much different from a loser, due to evolution . An example of convergence ?
 
To me, the styling of modern race bikes looks like those 'transformers' things. Do they really need so much suspension travel ? It puts a lot more of the bike and rider up into the wind. Seems to me that the increase in suspension travel was due to the increase in horsepower, but the increase in ride height probably requires more horsepower to push the bike through the air.
 
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Troy Corser gets cheeky during overtake at Revival;




Nothing new under the sun, even Mike Hailwood did this to a fellow rider in the world championship IOM TT one year, when he came upon his mate, tommy Robb going flat out “with his chin on the tank bum up in the air going like the wind”- as he went pass he gave him a BIG slap on the bum, he shot up in the air surprised, mike said he nearly fell off his bike laughing!:)
 
Relative to one another, in many races the other bikes can appear to be almost stationary beside you. Everything happens very slowly if you look sideways, but extremely fast if you look forwards. I once stuck my hand with my thumb up, in front of my mate's nose which was down behind the Perspex bubble of his fairing. It is not difficult, nor is it clever. While you are doing that, you are usually not looking where you are going.
If you have a look at this video, there is a guy who rode into the end of a concrete wall and was killed, He was looking down at his bike when he did it.
It only takes a second's lapse of concentration.

 
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