Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 6:50 am
great stuff!! 
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.
fun fun...
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.
fun fun...
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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