Gave in to temptation..............

[Arctic_Wolf]

An ex biker huh?
we get loads of them round here when the sun peeps out for 5 mins, sounds like a bloody test track most summer Sundays! Last Sunday there were literally hundreds of mods passing through on scooters "hair drying" their way through the village - looked pretty impressive, wouldn't have like to have been behind them with the 30 mirrors hanging off each of 'em!

were you into classic sports bikes or the modern uber rockets? I've only been on the back of one a couple of times and it scared me shitless!

Modern pocket rockets m8. It's been 10 years since I've ridden, but there was a huge difference between the bikes I had in the early to mid 90' to the one's I had in the early 2000's. Indeed, they got scary fast, and they had much better suspension and braking systems. The bikes on then roads really weren't that different to those that they raced on track, and they still aren't. I even used to ride using road legal sticky race tyres. I'd go through a set every 1200-1500 miles lol, but it was good fun :-) .

 

[Triumph]

Yeah, they are SERIOUSLY fast machines nowadays aren't they, sheesus you must've been doing some to burn through tyres in just over a thousand miles?! I guess you have to keep on top of your tyre state on a fast bike, as if one blows at speed you're gonna be in big trouble pretty quick!

Modern pocket rockets m8. It's been 10 years since I've ridden, but there was a huge difference between the bikes I had in the early to mid 90' to the one's I had in the early 2000's. Indeed, they got scary fast, and they had much better suspension and braking systems. The bikes on then roads really weren't that different to those that they raced on track, and they still aren't. I even used to ride using road legal sticky race tyres. I'd go through a set every 1200-1500 miles lol, but it was good fun :-) .

 

[Arctic_Wolf]

Yeah, they are SERIOUSLY fast machines nowadays aren't they, sheesus you must've been doing some to burn through tyres in just over a thousand miles?! I guess you have to keep on top of your tyre state on a fast bike, as if one blows at speed you're gonna be in big trouble pretty quick!

The main problem was they'd square off so quickly at the centres on normal roads', which would make the bike harder to turn into a corner. They were dual compound, harder at the centre and softer at the edges, but they'd still wear too quickly lol. It got a bit expensive, but what uber fun pastime's aren't lol?