data.3news-bydate.train.rec.motorcycles.104988 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (Ray Hixon)
Subject: Re: V-max handling request
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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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 .
>> (Vmax racing horror story deleted)
>> Portland International Raceway is now 2-for-2 on V-Max'es.
>>
>> V-Max - handling? Ferget it.
Actually, a WERA racer, William Lumsden, considered running a Vmax in
A Superstock. He took it out to Talladega GPR for a practice day, and
_really_ annoyed the 600 riders -- they usually got caught behind a
sideways Vmax in the corners, and if they passed him going in, he'd
blow by down the straight (usually wobbling). Needless to say, since
he was 2 seconds faster on a 1977 CB400F, he decided against the Vmax.
Too bad.
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Ray Hixon
WERA #623 Expert
a Single-minded guy