RE: Time For Tea? If you want it with buns...

RE: Time For Tea? If you want it with buns...

Thursday 21st February 2013

Time For Tea? If you want it with buns...

Racing a superbike means putting your ass on the line - literally, if this video is anything to go by



Now, onboard car videos are an online stock in trade. And the promise of the same from a World Superbike ridden by Jonathan Rea around Phillip Island to celebrate this weekend's opening round of the 2013 championship should promise much.

And it perhaps would've done, were it not for the camera angle chosen. Which gives a very good view of Rea's sponsors' logos and ... erm ... Rea's rear. Not to put too fine a point on it. It is safe for work, but you may want to have a think about how you're going to explain watching a close-up video of a man's leather-clad behind jiggling about.

Er, yes.

Once over the initial shock factor, it does go to show quite how involved riding a Superbike at race speeds really is. We car drivers may allude to sports cars making it feel like our backside is just millimetres off the road. But Rea's actually is. Amazing stuff.

Maybe bolt the camera somewhere else for the next one though guys...

 

 

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desmos

Original Poster:

41 posts

201 months

Thursday 21st February 2013
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Imagine doing that with a broken ankle!- just as Mr Crutchlow did at Silverstone finishing 6th!!!

scottishlion

11 posts

160 months

Thursday 21st February 2013
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So much power through such small contact patch! I ride bikes quite quickly, but I can't see myself ever having the balls to do that.

muon

814 posts

139 months

Thursday 21st February 2013
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When you see guys riding like that (albeit on track) it definitely makes you think how much your bike is just arse jewellery! Then you have guys wanting to go from 600/750 up to 1000's 'cos they've 'outgrown' their little 6's haha.

MrKipling43

5,788 posts

215 months

Thursday 21st February 2013
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1000s are better for road riding. Less maniacal.

Si_man306

456 posts

184 months

Thursday 21st February 2013
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Amazing, wish I rode bikes...just the loss of important bits of me that's worrying!

LordFlathead

9,641 posts

257 months

Thursday 21st February 2013
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^^ That's half the attraction of riding them wink

ES335

154 posts

165 months

Thursday 21st February 2013
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Brilliant video

Freakuk

3,105 posts

150 months

Thursday 21st February 2013
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Or like Haslam did last year at PI with a bust leg two days earlier

dc2rr07

1,238 posts

230 months

Thursday 21st February 2013
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Or like Stoner finshing 4th in Indianapolis and been lifted of the bike onto crutches, IMO he gave Dovizioso third spot just so he did not have to go the podium. biggrin

He was a bit of an arse sometimes but god was he a bloody good rider, will be sadly missed on the grid.

mybrainhurts

90,809 posts

254 months

Thursday 21st February 2013
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Why's he got a hand grenade on his arse...?

Ace-T

7,688 posts

254 months

Thursday 21st February 2013
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Mmmmm....biggrin

wotnot

383 posts

173 months

Thursday 21st February 2013
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An excellent example of why guys like him do and guys like me don't!
I'd give an awful lot to be able to ride like that......

wotnot

383 posts

173 months

Thursday 21st February 2013
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An excellent example of why guys like him do and guys like me don't!
I'd give an awful lot to be able to ride like that......

Ray Luxury-Yacht

8,910 posts

215 months

Friday 22nd February 2013
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I can relate to this, although I'm not, and never was, of Johnnie Rae quality...

But I did race some silly 1,000cc bikes around a load of UK tracks for 5 or 6 years in the early 2000's, and amazingly I have a load of ropey old tin trophies to show for it too...Back in the day when I was doing my best to both kill myself and waste the equivalent amount of cash chasing a dream that most sane people spend on a house purchase, we often used to compare our times with that of the BSB and WSB boys round the same tracks...and I was always gratified to see that on my ropey, modified R1, that I was normally within 2 or 3 seconds a lap pace of those chaps on their factory bikes. Ok, 2 or 3 seconds might be a lifetime in racing - but it made me reasonably happy at least!

Anyway, back to the thread...

Watching the video, it's all fairly familiar stuff to me. When I was chasing glory, often the normal situation was to have the bike leaned over so far in some turns, that the track was forcing not just my knee but my entire leg back into the side of the bike, with my arse and my elbow pretty much near as dammit scuffing the tarmac too. It was normal, and business as usual, and funnily enough, when I was in that state and only inches from the tarmac, it felt so safe, and so re-assuring, because the ground was so close - kinda like if anything went wrong, then I would only have a few inches to fall!

The real scary stuff was coming out of fast turns and getting the bike as upright as possible whilst also fighting / taunting the throttle to get as much power down as I dared...with the bike back up towards it's highest point and flirting with the acceleration, that was the most scary bit, because one wrong move with the gas would see me being spat off into the most hideous and damaging highside ever!

So actually, when the bike is leant over as far as it is in this video...that's probably one of the most comfortable, least scary states to be in.

But, just my 2p's worth!




Layacable

815 posts

207 months

Friday 22nd February 2013
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I'd give that a 5 on the steel testicle rating chart methinks.

srob

11,566 posts

237 months

Friday 22nd February 2013
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dc2rr07 said:
Or like Stoner finshing 4th in Indianapolis and been lifted of the bike onto crutches, IMO he gave Dovizioso third spot just so he did not have to go the podium. biggrin
I once saw John Reynolds come off at Cadwell, in front of us at a BSB round. It looked like the footrest had gone through his ankle, he certainly had to have it 'removed' from his boot area.

Anyway, he was carted off to the medi centre on a stretcher. About two minutes later he was carried out by two of his team and put on his bike on the grid (which was on paddock stands) ready for the re-start. Think he finished about 8th.

And they say rugby players are hard hehe

smilo996

2,754 posts

169 months

Friday 22nd February 2013
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As they say. driving a car is like watching a film. riding a bike is like being in it.

dibblecorse

6,872 posts

191 months

Friday 22nd February 2013
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MrKipling43 said:
1000s are better for road riding. Less maniacal.
You don't half talk some rubbish fella ......

dibblecorse

6,872 posts

191 months

Friday 22nd February 2013
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srob said:
dc2rr07 said:
Or like Stoner finshing 4th in Indianapolis and been lifted of the bike onto crutches, IMO he gave Dovizioso third spot just so he did not have to go the podium. biggrin
I once saw John Reynolds come off at Cadwell, in front of us at a BSB round. It looked like the footrest had gone through his ankle, he certainly had to have it 'removed' from his boot area.

Anyway, he was carted off to the medi centre on a stretcher. About two minutes later he was carried out by two of his team and put on his bike on the grid (which was on paddock stands) ready for the re-start. Think he finished about 8th.

And they say rugby players are hard hehe
Neither really come close to seeing Kagyama riding in BSB in effectively an adult nappy with a broken pelvis still under repair ..... could see the pain as he was helped on and of the bike ........ thats riding f***ed let alone hurt !!!

srob

11,566 posts

237 months

Friday 22nd February 2013
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dibblecorse said:
Neither really come close to seeing Kagyama riding in BSB in effectively an adult nappy with a broken pelvis still under repair ..... could see the pain as he was helped on and of the bike ........ thats riding f***ed let alone hurt !!!
Didn't Mick Doohan ride when he'd effectively been told he'd lose his leg if he fell off?