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From: [email protected] (Alexander Essbaum)
Subject: Re: V-max handling request
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In article , [email protected] (Tom Coradeschi) writes:
|> [email protected] (Jeffrey David Earls) wrote:
|> >
|> > [email protected] writes:
|> > >hello there
|> > >can anyone who has handson experience on riding the Yamaha v-max, pls kindly
|> > >comment on its handling .
|> >
|> >
|> > Some guy came to the OMRRA race school last weekend with number plates
|> > on his V-Max. He didn't get more than 2 practice laps in before he pushed
|> > the frame too hard and it drove him into the guard rail on the back
|> > straight.
|> >
|> > BTW: The rider was conscious and semi-coherent when the ambulance
|> > carted him off. That's all I know.
|>
|> I hate to pick on someone who may have been seriously injured (let's hope
|> not), but: semi-coherent sounds like a good description of someone who
|> shows up at the track w/ a VMax in the first place:-{
what does that make me for showing up with an old interceptor with worse
brakes and handling (due to bent frame) than a VMAX? and i didn't even...
uh.... well, i was more than semi-coherent when the ambulance.... uh....
nevermind.
axel
:)