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FreaK Regular Location: Canada Registered: September 2002	Re: 3 Near Death Experiences in 2.3secs Fri, 12 December 2003 23:12 How many LMAO smileys you want me to put in here? hehe I've had soooo many close calls! "We all gonna DIIIEEEEEE" .... "hey ... we didn't! ... cool." etc. I grew up in a farming area, glacial cut valleys all over the place, lots of wicked roads - most of which were gravel! All through high school, I was taking ppl for rides *just* to go have a NDE or 3. To pick one in particular? hmmm... (and no flames about cops and babies - most of us are cool enough to PICK when and where I *hope!*) Late entry apex ... 80MPH ... downtown London ON CAN. There's this road, a one-way 3-lane main in London... Well one Friday night I was on this road (with a couple friends) on out motorcycles (RD350, CM400, GT500) and we were just buddy-racing light to light... sequenced lights for around 60KPH, so we'd go fast and get reds, go fast and get reds... you know! Fun! Anyway - since you could hear us a long way off (loud bikes) we picked up other b ikes wanting to play every couple lights! By the time we were fairly East of the downtown core (right in front of the POLICE STATION I later learn) there must have been 15-20 bikes at the light... gunning engines...smoking tires ... showing off in general... We pin it We wheelie We vastly exceed any speed law for any road (I was over 100MPH easy) then we get down to about 6 blocks from the start, bikes are spread out with the truly fast 100-200m in front of the group I was in! It seems so ... predictable ... now... The road, a half block from where all the guys were hitting the brakes, takes a 90* left, then a short block to a stoplight - all while merging from 3 lanes to about 1-and-a-half! I had never been on this road before, but that never lowered my limits before either. hehe so I stay on it, thinking "wimps" zip through the line of brakelights only to see, maybe 50m ahead (at over 100MPH/160KPH) nuthin but chain link fencing. With visions of a cartoon where someone gets strained through a fence in peices flashing through my head, I do the JoeRacer Superhangoff, pound the brakes for all they got (hey - it was a '74 bike with drum rears and a single solid disk!) realize I'm late-apexing the corner in DRIFT on a BIKE and see the opposite curb rushing towards me! God saw fit, for some reason, to grant me a do-over, since there had been added a little concrete pull-over area (half lane wide) for the City Bus to stop in! I drifted the bike all the way in, felt the tires tap the curb, then shot out (now having turned a little more than 90) at 80MPH! I wrestle the bike pointing straight to the road, and realise I'm VERY clost to a red light with crossing traffic. A panic stop ensues, I make it, then did my best to look casual when I turned around to "look for the slowpokes" I learned from my cat. Moral - KNOW your road, or be VERY quick on the draw. Moral 2 - never put cheap tires on ANYTHING you plan to corner hard (I run Metzler now ... just bought Me-1's for my RZ500SS) Moral 3 - Street Racing is BAD and DANGEROUS.. don't do it. But I *do* so enjoy the challenger lol... [Report message to a moderator]

	Subject	Poster	Date
	3 Near Death Experiences in 2.3secs	RolloKE25	Tue, 04 November 2003 08:07
	Re: 3 Near Death Experiences in 2.3secs	DeViL rOlLa	Tue, 04 November 2003 08:10
	Re: 3 Near Death Experiences in 2.3secs	Chris Davey	Tue, 04 November 2003 08:56
	Re: 3 Near Death Experiences in 2.3secs	CRAB-86	Tue, 04 November 2003 11:50
	Re: 3 Near Death Experiences in 2.3secs	Evil_Foetus	Tue, 04 November 2003 11:53
	Re: 3 Near Death Experiences in 2.3secs	Jag7799	Wed, 05 November 2003 04:46
	Re: 3 Near Death Experiences in 2.3secs	Caledwvech	Wed, 05 November 2003 05:06
	Re: 3 Near Death Experiences in 2.3secs	alwaysRA23	Wed, 05 November 2003 10:01
	Re: 3 Near Death Experiences in 2.3secs	RolloKE25	Wed, 05 November 2003 12:46
	Re: 3 Near Death Experiences in 2.3secs	LowRollaBoy	Thu, 06 November 2003 00:54
	Re: 3 Near Death Experiences in 2.3secs	J-AE86	Thu, 13 November 2003 07:14
	Re: 3 Near Death Experiences in 2.3secs	Rolla Boy	Sat, 15 November 2003 01:58
	Re: 3 Near Death Experiences in 2.3secs	Drew-AE86	Sat, 22 November 2003 14:45
	Re: 3 Near Death Experiences in 2.3secs	Shraka	Sat, 22 November 2003 15:08
	Re: 3 Near Death Experiences in 2.3secs	gtman	Sun, 23 November 2003 13:51
	Re: 3 Near Death Experiences in 2.3secs	Shraka	Sun, 23 November 2003 15:07
	Re: 3 Near Death Experiences in 2.3secs	FreaK	Fri, 12 December 2003 23:12
	Re: 3 Near Death Experiences in 2.3secs	FreaK	Sun, 14 December 2003 16:36
	Re: 3 Near Death Experiences in 2.3secs	Jag7799	Mon, 15 December 2003 00:43

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