This kid is good!!!

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#21 Unread post by QuietMonkey »

great stuff!! :D

yep, he's a good rider. excellent control and ultra precise!

it looks like the course is a standard rider training facility and then they just make it a little trickier in places, and a lot trickier in others! up the speeds and voila you have a cool timed event. lots like autocross competition.

the rider isn't leaning at really steep angle much of the time, but carrying some good lean on certain sections.. those are very tight turns and he has awesome accuracy. doing those 360 and 720 degree turns has gotta be a blast. i loved the fast slalom section and that last bit of stuff... well, it was all great. unique.

that stuff would definitely take some time to get good at. very precise. man does it look fun though! i had ridden my RZ350s on the old go kart track (Kart Gardens/Calgary), when we were doing minirace practice sessions, but that course is much much tighter. when that track closed down, the minirace club was doing parking lot race courses with pylons for a couple years until the new track was built... minibikes are much easier to pilot than a fullsize bike in the tight stuff. there were lots of injuries in min racing too (because you are still falling from the same height, and the speeds are lower so when you loose traction it COMES BACK faster than at highspeed and the bikes tosses the rider hard -- and when you lowside, your shoulder hits the ground at JUST the right angle and STICKS... thus many people have had broken collar from miniracing.

The VFR4 may be one of the perfect bikes for that too: torquey, good wheel/tire combo, and with the higher rearset pegs and high bars he has on it look to work well. very maneouverable and a nice motor for that kindof work.

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#22 Unread post by upho366 »

aaahhh!!! i want the video!!! i used to have it, but my hard drive died.. does anyone know where i can pick this up? or could someone host it for a bit so i could grab it??
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#23 Unread post by DivideOverflow »

http://baladesmoto4.free.fr/videos-moto ... /gym_s.wmv
http://yetix2.free.fr/video/gym_s.wmv

Cheers! Thanks for digging this back up. I forgot about this video.

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#24 Unread post by jmillheiser »

that is impressive. Some seriously good bike control. And damn good reflexes

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#25 Unread post by upho366 »

man i love this clip, awsome.. if anyone has similar clips please post them, this is sweet
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#26 Unread post by kabob983 »

What bike is that?? Someone mentioned a VFR4, but I've not heard of that...

It looks great whatever it is (although maybe that's because he's mastered the thing).
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#27 Unread post by ronboskz650sr »

Did you notice, no clutch except to start and stop? Front brake and trottle simultaneously, while turning and leaned over. Kindof puts the experience level in perspective, doesn't it? That's why we get seemingly contradictive advice sometimes about those very issues. I wonder what sprockets are on that thing? It's obviously geared pretty low to smoothly run circles like that with the clutch fully engaged at speeds like that. Plus it really wound up on the little chichane section. Cool video, I keep a copy on our computer for it's humbling effect. :laughing: I assume it's the same one, I didn't even look at this one...just fits the description in every way..Japanese, right?
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#28 Unread post by SuperRookie »

Why doesn't the link work for me :| ?
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#30 Unread post by SuperRookie »

Thanx Wise...

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