Road Racing a Norton Commando

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Or, - if you have Lucas sponsorship, I have a `69 `Motor Cycle` that features a 'Lucas exchange service' advert showing a electrickery failed BSA on the side of the road, & offering, "In a matter of minutes" replacement of faulty Lucas equipment...Hang on, but surely, if you remove the [Black] Lightning equipment it won`t go so fast..
 
Yes Damage Dodger I was just teasing about a crew and tool van or trailer but would be better to have a buddy along to help load a damaged bike or me home. Otherwise part of Peel rub it in plans is ride to events and back, as Peel much be both road legal and off road capable. Peels finally got enough holes in her but its the big one in wallet this year that's set me back on ass indefinitely mc wise. If I'd ever get a real job again, but respect those giving it their all, all over the place.

This images really sends me

Road Racing a Norton Commando
 
I thought it was as the spectators had suffered permanent hearing damage & sued the organisors . :p
Road Racing a Norton Commando
 
Well,sure- either that, or Hogly-Dogly squealing to Mama/AMA `bout Global Warming...Or were you referring to the Rolling Stones Altamont show?
 
hehe now that's a power to distorting rear tire size that appeals to me alot. I keep repeating myself but sticking to my story as to the appeal of off road, >>> Peel takes road racing handling to at least two faster tighter levels around on pavement than racer style>>> so easy and secure its lost its adrenalin tremble high effect on me. I just can't get no Satisfaction on firm surfaces anymore. Peel has conquered any and all complaints I've ever had or ever read about or ever seen as regards pavement. Rest of the world will catch on someday but will capability will have to be demo'd more in vein of the late Michigan Madman OMG stunts as Peel's an out law if boosted. Dirt is fun but still on milder side of wild compared to riding a crowned groomed loose Gravel base - before its paved over. Maybe there are off road events Peel could enter, scrambles and hill climbs and steeple chases? Iced spiked tires on speedway track may get me the G's force orgasms I seek. A boat is a dog until it gets up on a hard plane, similar to Peel just not giving her best w/o being on the loose side with bars and pegs feeling like an inch out of line from frame twist, which translates to tires out of line almost half a bike length apart, before the sling shot hits as she crashes right on purpose. Oh this note I'm scared of other riders knowing what they are riding and so I don't get close to other bikes and no need, just wait till a bit till they commit to a line and then zing around WOT inside or outside of them but usually way way inside as when Peel looses it she snaps around sharper not wider. So that's the other issue about Peel in race events, if she's power to mostly match others then it wouldn't be a race if any turning involved. I never ever press up on others butts but boy howdy had to brake hard not to when they got down to corning. [too narrow to pass in wagon trail Mt roads w/o blind encounters] That's another point most miss, Peel allows insane handling while staying well in her lane at all times. Image Barbers, a famous tight technical track >>> only 10 feet wide. Maybe someone will take my clue and field a compliant linked Isolastic and find out why I'm so spoiled silly. I can pass in Mt passes when road allows vision of the next turn to see no oncoming, then its always a solo ride from then till next stop.
 
I find the real trick to adapting to racing is to start before you are 21!

Explore all the limits you want.....

After 50?, use your experience to set limits and stop falling off, I took a low side at Cadwell hairpin in 2005....went down like a sack of potatoes and cracked a rib...when I started in '75/'76 I stayed on, but in '77/'78 when I tried finding those limits a couple of times, I lost some skin, but just bounced....
 
I'm semi retired and 61 in a week so looking forward to no worries about falling off on dry pavement like the youngsters on too floppy or too rigid corner cripples. Its Flabbergastingly Fabulous to play like a hormonally over charged teenager girl with multiple orgasms with my clothes on and no birth control concerns. A race tract seems like a padded play pen to Ms Peel so it takes unstable off pavement flings to give me mature reasonable fears of crashing. I missed out decades of racing social life so winding up an isolastic frame to enjoy second childhood where ever possible.
 
Dances with Shrapnel said:
The real challenge is remembering how fast you were and trying to keep it in perspective.

So true, but riding a motorcycle with 100% more horsepower at the rear wheel than you had in '70s and huge tyres makes you think you are faster than you were :shock: (GSXR750 SRAD)

But it helped me deal with the extra 50% of my GSXR750F....

Looking forward to getting back to just 100% of the power I had back then :D , then of course it won't be enough.....
 
Don't know about you all but I'm looking forward to speeding up over the hill. Too rigid or too floppy cycles don't warn you much before their wiggle jiggles suddenly all splash together in an instant that over whelms pilot sense and bike self recovery on its conflicting patches. I agree that kind of motorcycle handling is best left to the younger solders who still think they'll live forever. But none of us got older and wiser until surviving the young and stupid learning curves. In snow and water skiing we only need to hear once for it to soap into the bone...
If ya ain't falling then you're not really trying...

I collect tales of what pilot thought went wrong, if they still have wits enough to remember it w/o video. New discovered lump in a new line around a blind, objects in committed path w/o any reserves left to dodge w/o an upset, bike breakage while maxed out or just so fast a smack down, gotta do it again in order to learn to avoid...

There is a state I get in - after some warm up of me and bike that 's too scary for my rational mind to take so it must shift logic gears to help survive what the emotional part just thrust it into way past point of no return.
 
On this point, see if you can find a clip of Cal Crutchlow crashing out of 2nd place in the final [Valencia] Spanish G.P. of the season, last weekend, - I `ve watched it in slow-mo several times & wow, its a weird one, the bike seems to porpoise out from under him, like a skilled rodeo beast, freaky dutch-roll/wet dog gyrations, poor Cal is left grasping/gasping thin air wondering WTF just happened, & all in a split-second/straight line moment..too much brake into a corner approach in less than perfect conditions may have been the catalyst, but even so, the bike just spat him off, & kept going without him..
 
Someday this will all be made perfectly clear by a hybrid robust and compliant isolastic linkage revolution. My only tool of choice now of course.

Note: when leaving phase 2 handling one must let-help cycle transition to next energy handling level or back off or else. What happened is no mystery to me, he got it perfectly balanced hanging off to give a bit more power which slightly deformed rear tire so it shifted on its badly shaped leaned on patch which allowed bike to start to fall over w/o any need of counter steering forks, but he kept counter steering till about 3rd warning wobble and bike did fall over on its own which jerked the forks into straight steering - in ignorant surprise, instead of knowing that they all do that, so either back off or ^Really Nail IT^ to fly up back airborne til correct posture while letting the rigid frame settle down before landing to nailing it right out of there on smashed down hook up patch - hehehe in utter amazement by one and all... There ain't no easing off a cliff, the first step over edge is always a thrilling doozie.

A whiplash injury like that can decay later and made a miserable life that can eventually kill ya, so mean ya may be glad of it by then.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtptEIrqzvY[/video]

I can fly the moderns over that danger zone hi-sided sideways twisting in air but if not done ^Really Wildly^ they just slide their front tire sideways, which hi sides others by total surprise. The stupid over rigid moderns all do that weave then wobble shit but if you really really pay attention its not ryhtmic predicable enough for me to launch>land at right angle at right distance out - d/t wind &road&diving board frame so gave up on those dangerous corner cripples forever more.
 
Funny you should mention whiplash, Hobot.. - I am currently recovering from a 4th surgery on my L forearm,
[nasty injury- manifold fractures/dislocations/joint/connective tissue matters] but the side-effect was the cure of an ancient cervical swingeing pain,[surfing incident on top of bike/football crashes] the whiplash did the trick there..
 
Neck injury is often missed by the obvious limb or trunk injury. Peripheral injury should self resolve, as we all had happen, before spine decay=degeneration advances to impinge on brain stem/blood supply, then old shit flairs up and shit don't recover as expected. Many get neck injury at birth to cause all kinds of misery to infant and parents and sets up for tough life later. Sometimes I get reports of new injury correcting an old one but I don't like accidents so preach neck regrowing methods. Get a hi end mulit-mineral-bone-joint complex and take rather more than dose on label. Sugars and booze and artificial sweetners can flair you up too but with a delay so don't realize it on top of everything else.

http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/ab ... ookieSet=1
http://www.matlinmfg.com/ProductPDF/sagital_curves.pdf

i once was 6'4 then by 50 was 6'1, then put a Ninja on head @ 120 and 3 yr later deer in helmet almost killed me but pyshcodelics plus mediation/mind control I did not loose conscious even though no breath nor heart beat just vibration/guiver, so did my thing above and now am over 6'2.5" again and had to buy 2" longer jeans again. I don't worry about race crashing on Ms Peel, but know I'll go down again other wise so her cage and me doing protocols even when not having to recover anything old age associated, like I endured prior.

The Damn Deer did Sir Eddie in. He'd followed protocol till doing well enough to slack off and lose neck progress which also messed with his balance, so last stumble was it - when the whiplash swelling hit a bit later. Internetannoyance knows this story up close. i follow it and will leave the rest of you in the dust as we age, unless of course ya get into my camp soon enough.

1914 a study done on neck posture, how easy to lay head back on table. If took 3/4" pad death was 150% increased, if over 3/4" pad then 250% increase of heart and brain attack. Bad business to publish that data widely.
 
Ta for the info, Hobot, I`ve been using various treatments for bone [needed grafts] cartilidge[head of radius/ulna smashed] tendons [grafts] muscle, nerves , pain etc.
Interestingly, since taking all this shit, I haven`t had so much as a head cold...
Had metal in/out X2 ,multiple disections have messed up the muscle/nerves some, but I get back riding as soon as the pain is tolerable, for which I have a reasonable threshold, - I got the E.D. attending to reset my dislocated finger joints, on arrival, they were painful, but felt much better when not displaced by 1/2inch..
As for birth injuries - are you referring to forceps/suction delivery trauma or face presentation/breach type phenomena? Or long labour stress vaginal births vs caesar/surgical?
 
Time for a redirect, how we got from Commando racing to birth canals is not too clear to me, but how about we get back to encouraging some guys to race Commandos :wink:

In the UK we have the slight deterance that now Gary Thwaites on Dave Watson's 1007 have really cracked making that quick enough to beat oversized triples, it seems everyone thinks that you need 1000cc or stay at home...

I would love to see more try the 750 route, not least because you can then take it to Europe......and I won't be so lonely next season.... :oops:
 
Any of and all the listed birth issues can pile up for mysterious to deadly results, ie: sudden infant death, which is always thought to be face down suffocation but its more the neck pinching off breathing reflex, so both can add up to no life. In older folks it called sleep apnea, which did in my younger brother Dale, so now have that pain every time the weather is nice and doing stuff we liked together no more. I see failed hip and knee replacements, sometimes twice in same joint respond back to good function pain free by attending to CNS supply more than the local tissues, but hips/legs/feet hold up butt which holds up back which holds up neck/shoulders so must deal with what body shows as priory to support neck recovery. One of the most amazing simple impossible things I've come to depend on now in local tissue injury, surgery to vemoms to burns and slices is plain Jane rubberized magnets over area which Bayler found makes the capillary beds breath instead of just swelling up or choking off. Can take 12-24 hour to kick in but effect lasts 12-24 hr after removal, then found can flair up to useless state, till replaced for a day then dramatically better in every way.

Example of business card magnets magic, had SuVee drop me at 3 mph when tires slipped on wet grass lump rolling to stop w/o brake so momentum twisted R foot completely outward, with firecracker pops of ligaments and tendons tearing off bone attachments then whole weight of bike pointed foot completely straight for sound of breaking rock/glass as ankle bones crushed to a wedge shape. Could only put on a sock so swollen that day, by 3rd day swelling down and could bend ankle enough to put in tie up boot support and not too bad to gimp around. By 4th day could walk with caution no limp bare foot. So good by 5th day, even with all the blood puddle leaked out shattered bone marrow I showed and left magnets off and didn't suffer working all day and sleep all night but awoke on 6th day in shock as R foot was a balloon with blunk nubbings of toe showing like a rubber glove over inflated, no boot that day. Put magnets back on and by 7th day was back to barefoot if I was careful, so kept magnets on 8 more days then neck and minerals kicked in and that was the end of any bother to me. Crunching noises stopped in a few more weeks so ready to tear up another major joint and ignore it after a short while. If bad tissue tares and aligment then surgery helps to get best recovery but not if the nerve/blood supply interfered with, then all kinds of bad side effects and non healing can happen w/o obvious reason.

The main source of say carpal tunnel, tennis elbow and biker position pain is the neck cord and nerve roots, so putting a magnetic on arm will have little effect as not source of pain, so of course it seems like magnets are BS to most. Even so may help locally as nerves make joints wear out and muscle imbalanced soo can help with that minor part of the pain. Magnets on neck help some with the outer soreness but not much for the way deeper mean stuff. Try it and see like I did in desperation a couple decades ago to be rather surprised pleased. Neck can snipe at low back too btw then its shows bad decay but bad decay is seen a lot in cases w/o any symptoms from it, so another medical mystery hehehe.
 
SteveA asked nicely bot-hoe.

Seems like this birth canal drivel is a matter of constipation of the mind and diarrhea of the tongue (keyboard).

This thread started off well and nows is being cr8pped on in my not so humble opinion.

Get on track (literally and figuratively) or take it to a new thread - please.
 
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