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PostPosted: 13:34 - 26 Mar 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Welcome to the metre high club. Thumbs Up

I managed another jump last night over a railway crossing, then had to pull over quickly to check both bollocks were still attached. Sick


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PostPosted: 13:39 - 26 Mar 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
It's really not hard and you most likely rose a few inches.

There's previous threads if you'd care to search....
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PostPosted: 15:58 - 26 Mar 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
I get air most days going over the weigh-bridge into work. The security guy thinks I'm a twat........he may well be right!
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PostPosted: 16:11 - 26 Mar 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
I take the name of speed bumps literally Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 16:14 - 26 Mar 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Tristan the wrote:
I take the name of speed bumps literally Thumbs Up


God, I wish I could do that. There's one of those horrible bastard plastic strip things on the way into work that rips the fuck out of my collector if I go over it at more than about 4 mph. We've (the bikers at my workplace) been campaigning to get rid of the fucking thing for years, and they're still to-ing and fro-ing about it.
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PostPosted: 17:10 - 26 Mar 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
could of been bad if you tried to change direction when it happened
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PostPosted: 17:12 - 26 Mar 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
nowhere.elysium wrote:
Tristan the wrote:
I take the name of speed bumps literally Thumbs Up


God, I wish I could do that. There's one of those horrible bastard plastic strip things on the way into work that rips the fuck out of my collector if I go over it at more than about 4 mph. We've (the bikers at my workplace) been campaigning to get rid of the fucking thing for years, and they're still to-ing and fro-ing about it.


If I were you I'd just hope that one of the 1 foot sections (if it is the type I'm thinking of, as in the ones you get in ASDA car parks) didn't get hit repeatedly with a mallet until it came away Wink
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PostPosted: 17:16 - 26 Mar 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
nowhere.elysium wrote:
Tristan the wrote:
I take the name of speed bumps literally Thumbs Up


God, I wish I could do that. There's one of those horrible bastard plastic strip things on the way into work that rips the fuck out of my collector if I go over it at more than about 4 mph. We've (the bikers at my workplace) been campaigning to get rid of the fucking thing for years, and they're still to-ing and fro-ing about it.


They have those at uni, I just go down the 6 inch gap between the ramp and the kerb.

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PostPosted: 20:21 - 26 Mar 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
AppleJoe wrote:

If I were you I'd just hope that one of the 1 foot sections (if it is the type I'm thinking of, as in the ones you get in ASDA car parks) didn't get hit repeatedly with a mallet until it came away Wink

As grossly incapable as our security staff are, there's a couple of CCTV cameras trained on them. Allegedly it's so they can see who's at the card reader, but I reckon it's so they don't have the sections nicked from the speed bump.

virus wrote:


They have those at uni, I just go down the 6 inch gap between the ramp and the kerb.

Cheers
John


It's not possible on these ones: the barrier's on an island in the middle of the road, and the bump pretty much touches it. If I go round the other side, I've got to do some kind of lengthy weirdshit crabwise shuffle to get over to the card reader.
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PostPosted: 20:38 - 26 Mar 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
nowhere.elysium wrote:
As grossly incapable as our security staff are, there's a couple of CCTV cameras trained on them. Allegedly it's so they can see who's at the card reader, but I reckon it's so they don't have the sections nicked from the speed bump.


Ahem

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To be honest, I'd find it more satisfying if the people involved in putting those things in were made to realise that they were wrong, in every way, about everything, ever.
Sorry - I don't like the head of security at work much. As much as your solution would sort the problem out quickly, I'd like to grind his face in the fact that he's WRONG. Evil or Very Mad

Sorry. Got a little carried away, there...
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PostPosted: 21:50 - 26 Mar 2009    Post subject: Re: 3. 2. 1. Lift off Reply with quote
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Did I actually get some air or did the suspension just lift?
Have you even done this?



Yes I have but I decided a long time ago that I hate replacing headstock bearings. As such I try to keep both wheels on the road these days.

I did however hit a railway bridge on the A9 just before Thurso at about double the speed limit (it's a LONG straight bit of perfectly flat and level road with a humpback bridge in the middle, you simply don't see it until you're on it). I only just landed on the downslope, could have been nasty if I'd hit on the flat! Had to wind on the throttle in midair to keep the nose up and you could feel the whole bike going sideways in the crosswind.

I had been going faster (read flat-out) but I managed to scrub off a load of speed once I saw it, realised I was going to be taking off no matter what, then got back on the power so I didn't nose-plant off the top.
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PostPosted: 22:19 - 26 Mar 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yeah sounds like you got air, back home there is a very small hump back bridge that is great for doing that on, especially if you are overtaking someone. Always felt a bit dodgy landing again mind.
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i am alwats getting air on my 1200 bandit due to having a stage 3 kit and k&n filters and a 14tooth front sprocket all i have to do is rool on the power . but there is one down fall i forget when ny girl friend is on the back sometimes untill i hear her scream .. lol
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PostPosted: 22:55 - 26 Mar 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
lynchy wrote:
i am alwats getting air on my 1200 bandit due to having a stage 3 kit and k&n filters and a 14tooth front sprocket all i have to do is rool on the power . but there is one down fall i forget when ny girl friend is on the back sometimes untill i hear her scream .. lol
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So you roll on the throttle and your back wheel lifts off the floor as well as your front? Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: 23:25 - 26 Mar 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
ms51ves3 wrote:
lynchy wrote:
i am alwats getting air on my 1200 bandit due to having a stage 3 kit and k&n filters and a 14tooth front sprocket all i have to do is rool on the power . but there is one down fall i forget when ny girl friend is on the back sometimes untill i hear her scream .. lol
dave


So you roll on the throttle and your back wheel lifts off the floor as well as your front? Rolling Eyes


That doesn't happen to you? Confused When I 'rool' on the power I do a wheelie and stoppie at the same time.
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PostPosted: 23:38 - 26 Mar 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
lynchy wrote:
i am alwats getting air on my 1200 bandit due to having a stage 3 kit and k&n filters and a 14tooth front sprocket all i have to do is rool on the power . but there is one down fall i forget when ny girl friend is on the back sometimes untill i hear her scream .. lol
dave


Lol, they mean both wheels off the floor, as in jumping, not wheelies.
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lynchy wrote:
i am alwats getting air on my 1200 bandit due to having a stage 3 kit


I've heard of those before, the sticker alone gives you 10bhp. Laughing
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PostPosted: 00:08 - 27 Mar 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
There is a great road near my house which is a less-steep version of The Corkscrew at Laguna Seca.

Plenty possible to get a nice amount of air on that one. Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 00:10 - 27 Mar 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
I used to look for places to do this around banbury, just mount a low curb then when it goes high ride off it at speed. You could do it if you hit the curb near the round about as you leave the bike rank.

Speed bumps are also fun.

But the little bridges out in the country are the best for this.

Did have an awesome airborne incident here involving some raised train tracks here on the 1000. Cool
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Unless you know the Trough road (a road that goes through the Bowland fells) you can quite easily get some serious air, I have a couple of times but it scares the shit out of me so I don't do it on purpose.

There are a couple of bridges around here that you can do it on easily too.
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jack_zxr400 wrote:
could of been bad if you tried to change direction when it happened
It is bad, especially when there's a solid 3 foot brick wall that look's like contact will be inevitable.

Problem I have on my 'secondary' commute route, is that there's a kinda mini dual carriageway which has like a crest swooping off to the left..... can catch you off guard and best avoided or taken very slow in the wet.
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I never got to sixth gear, and I didn't get deep into fifth. This is a shameful admission for a full-bore Cafe Racer, but let me tell you something, old sport: This motorcycle is simply too goddamn fast to ride at speed in any kind of normal road traffic unless you're ready to go straight down the centerline with your nuts on fire and a silent scream in your throat.

When aimed in the right direction at high speed, though, it has unnatural capabilities. This I unwittingly discovered as I made my approach to a sharp turn across some railroad tracks, saw that I was going way too fast and that my only chance was to veer right and screw it on totally, in a desperate attempt to leapfrog the curve by going airborne.

It was a bold and reckless move, but it was necessary. And it worked: I felt like Evel Knievel as I soared across the tracks with the rain in my eyes and my jaws clamped together in fear. I tried to spit down on the tracks as I passed them, but my mouth was too dry... I landed hard on the edge of the road and lost my grip for a moment as the Ducati began fishtailing crazily into oncoming traffic. For two or three seconds I came face to face with the Sausage Creature....

But somehow the brute straightened out. I passed a schoolbus on the right and got the bike under control long enough to gear down and pull off into an abandoned gravel driveway where I stopped and turned off the engine. My hands had seized up like claws and the rest of my body was numb. I felt nauseous and I cried for my mama, but nobody heard, then I went into a trance for 30 or 40 seconds until I was finally able to light a cigarette and calm down enough to ride home. I was too hysterical to shift gears, so I went the whole way in first at 40 miles an hour.

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