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Motorcycle & Scooter

sir pball

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6. Nah, if he were going slow enough to not wobble

Reply to populistdriven (Reply #5)

Mon Jun 18, 2018, 12:00 AM

Jun 2018

He wouldn't have been as fast overall. It's a hard calculation to make, and if you guess wrong you damn well may die, but that's why those guys are so much faster than us...because "fear" is simply a word they don't understand.

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A moment of silence for the two who aren't coming back from the Isle of Man this year... [View all] sir pball Jun 2018 OP

these scooter fatalities have gotta stop populistdriven Jun 2018 #1

Any man with the stones to do this deserves to go out on his own terms ;D sir pball Jun 2018 #2

Hell yes Sailor65x1 Jun 2018 #3

Exactly, Boulders..........n/t SonofDonald Jun 2018 #4

At top speed he hit a shimmy/wobble and my stomach headed for the exit. populistdriven Jun 2018 #5

Nah, if he were going slow enough to not wobble sir pball Jun 2018 #6

Crazy race JohnnyRingo Sep 2018 #7