10-10-2008, 03:38 PM | #41 | |
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Join Date: Mar 2008
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When you ride the bike naked, don't you get scared if you get off and there are no plastics to protect the vitals on your bike?
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10-10-2008, 03:49 PM | #42 | |
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Good question but no, actually I like riding her like that at the track. I keep my frame sliders and a tail section on the bike but I honestly feel more at ease not having to worry about screwing up good plastics (since my race plastics never fit anyway). I went down already like that and people may argue, but my vitals were protected and fine. The only damage: frame slider, broken radiator tab, left clip on ground down and shift peg snapped off. If i'd had plastics, the entire front would have been destroyed. |
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10-10-2008, 05:07 PM | #43 | |
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Join Date: Jun 2008
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10-10-2008, 05:26 PM | #44 | |
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lol...you ducati people are always so delusional, I may eventually join ya and get a hypermotard though. That's a fun bike.
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10-10-2008, 06:29 PM | #45 |
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I was riding my Hyper S last Saturday and being pretty tame. I dropped it to 1st, dumped the clutch, and let the rear end go crazy while slowing for the red light. Out of the corner of my eye, I notice a white fender come up beside me. Turn to see who my company is, and it's a NV state trooper! He politely says "You don't want a ticket on a Saturday do you?" I replied, "I don't want a ticket on ANY day!" The light turns green and we both go, eventually going our separate ways. At the next red light I though about the encounter and realized he was staring at the bike the entire time he was talking to me and most of the time we were riding!
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