Agios Ioannis

gixxerdave · Post by **gixxerdave** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 5:17 pm

yes rear brake.. sometimes nailing the front brake hard enough will send the back sideways a bit.. kind of to do with inertia/centrifugal force or whatever the scientific term is... if you look at the other video that was posted up on youtube, you'll see what the bike is doing with the tacho showing only 3-4k rpm, clutch in and bike is sideways.. its what the motard racers do, back it into corners, only these guys dont have their leg out.
mccoy/rossi do their powerslides on the throttle and coming out of corners.

mrmina · Post by **mrmina** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 5:42 pm

Neka79 wrote:
RG wrote:Why do they like to speed past shops on one wheel?
Is there an award for that?
yes..its called the "coolest dude in town" award...

i got a few of them

the only award u got was the "biggest tool in town"

Kishy · Post by **Kishy** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 6:42 pm

Aaaah bullshit ya havent crossed the white line when you could clearly
see thru the corner & no vehicle was in sight

That has as much truth as saying no ones eva gone a coupla K's over
the limit.

MrStompy · Post by **MrStompy** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 8:39 pm

when i watched it i could appreciate that they were good riders.

but that near miss with the car was just plain stupid and makes me think they are f**kwits. the bike was a good foot or two in the oncoming lane. that dude dodged death by a few inches.

Everyone makes mistakes and might end up running wide and i have a few times - luckily without injuring myself or anyone else. but i aint going to post video of it on the net trying to glorify it.

Either way i gotta admit they got balls. I wish i could ride like that but hopefully you wont ever see me riding like that on the road. hopefully on the track though

gixxerdave · Post by **gixxerdave** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 8:51 pm

MrStompy wrote:when i watched it i could appreciate that they were good riders.

but that near miss with the car was just plain stupid and makes me think they are f**kwits. the bike was a good foot or two in the oncoming lane. that dude dodged death by a few inches.

Everyone makes mistakes and might end up running wide and i have a few times - luckily without injuring myself or anyone else. but i aint going to post video of it on the net trying to glorify it.

Either way i gotta admit they got balls. I wish i could ride like that but hopefully you wont ever see me riding like that on the road. hopefully on the track though

to us, it'd appear wholly reckless with complete and utter disdain for their own lives, and probably others.. but having been to greece and seen numerous motorcyclists going at breakneck speeds on similar roads, i can probably say its a lot safer over there, what with the *vastly* higher car driver awareness of motorcycles, so in a manner of speaking, they'll live longer over there than they would down here.

Kishy · Post by **Kishy** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 9:06 pm

MrStompy wrote:when i watched it i could appreciate that they were good riders.

but that near miss with the car was just plain stupid and makes me think they are f**kwits. the bike was a good foot or two in the oncoming lane. that dude dodged death by a few inches.

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Yeh.. I'm presuming that was Agios' mate

stevew_zzr · Post by **stevew_zzr** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 12:23 am

davezx9r wrote:yes rear brake.. sometimes nailing the front brake hard enough will send the back sideways a bit.. kind of to do with inertia/centrifugal force or whatever the scientific term is...

It's mostly to do with there being little or no load on the rear.