Far be if from me to say don't run the big Ninja up in the stratosphere.
I'm the guy who got beside an F40 Ferrari on the 280 Southbound about 3 miles north of San Jose CA on a fine Sunday morning and matched him all the way to a bit over 200 mph riding my highly modified ZX-11.
Once in a while I let clarity cut through the bullshit and realize it is a good thing not so much as a large pebble was in my path over the 2 miles before I got it slowed down to 50 and found myself lane splitting under braking.
If you've been there, you know what I am talking about. And I have thrown a bike away in the Santa Cruz mountains west of San Jose, too, on an uphill 100 degree turn at 60 mph too.
Both are cases where passion overcame common sense, the only difference is the luck was with me for the former event and not so much for the latter.
Young and old riders alike often tend to forget its not often YOU that kills YOU, its something you cannot control, like Granny in her Lincoln Continental coming out a lane just past a blind curve.
Where common sense comes in is if you do what MSF says, and adjust your speed and mental focus to the hazard that MAY be past that blind curve.
If you decide not to slow down, and t-bone Granny, well, grats on your passion, sorry about your lack of common sense.
* Last updated by: privateer on 9/18/2009 @ 4:29 AM *
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