Sports: Re: [DucatiST] NDC- You Don't Want to See this Guy Behind you

what's interesting is having to actually slide your weight onto the off side, technique exactly opposite from shifting your weight to the inside at speed to make more corner speed. I can't ride slow nor fast....

Robert McNabb
Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia
ST4 1999 RED

--- On Thu, 7/28/11, Nick Alaniz <nicktoh@comcast.net> wrote:

From: Nick Alaniz <nicktoh@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [DucatiST] NDC- You Don't Want to See this Guy Behind you
To: "st2 owners" <st2_owners@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Thursday, July 28, 2011, 7:23 PM

Yep,

That's why Harley's (most) make great city bikes and then hop and weave like a drunken monkey on a bumpy highway.
Chee-yoww, Nick Alaniz, 2002 Ducati ST4$, Sacramento, CaL.

From: "Brad DeVries" <triangleforge@yahoo.com>
To: "st2 owners" <st2_owners@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 4:00:22 PM
Subject: Re: [DucatiST] NDC- You Don't Want to See this Guy Behind you

On a Duc, he'd have been on the steering stops the whole time & mowing down cones by the dozen. :-)

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From: brpduck <colordoc2@morrisbb.net>
To: st2_owners@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 2:32 PM
Subject: [DucatiST] NDC- You Don't Want to See this Guy Behind you

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/81664236/

Notice how his head is on a swivel; looking where he wants the bike to go.
That's how you do it.
"Look where you're goin' because you'll go where you're lookin'".

I think he coulda done a 1:50 on a Ducati....
Phil