data.3news-bydate.train.rec.motorcycles.104969 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (Tom Coradeschi)
Subject: Re: V-max handling request
Organization: Elect Armts Div, US Army Armt RDE Ctr, Picatinny Arsenal, NJ
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[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.
>
> Portland International Raceway is now 2-for-2 on V-Max'es.
>
> V-Max - handling? Ferget it.
>
> 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:-{
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