ma71supraturbo said:
I haven't come across a motorcyclist with the balls (or lack of brains) to ride fast enough on a windy road to keep up with me...
”Lack of brains,” -hey now! Heheh
I can say the same thing about cars never being able to play in my experience.
ma71supraturbo said:
… I'd love to take it to a track, but obviously bikes and cars don't share track days...
Just compare track times. Can you access those? Keep in mind that different tracks can make different machines shine: there are tight technical tracks and then there are tracks with longer straights. I live about five hours from Loudon International Raceway and that is the most technical track for racing on the bike circuit. Other machines also race there also.
ma71supraturbo said:
… how many times do you drop a knee when you ride on the street?...
It is A LOT harder to control a bike than it is to control a car. Very few riders can hold a line through twisties at speed. The bike handles very differently when it is laid down. It also handles very differently and requires different rider imputs at high speed as well as compared to low speeds. Very, very few riders ever come close to mastering a bike through the twisties. For a car, you just turn the wheel to turn. For a bike you would need lots of balance at your feet and your seat and your hands also, to be able to have the precision required. A bike can handle very differently just if you have a slightly different stance than you usually use. Most will never be able to represent a bike’s capabilities.
ma71supraturbo said:
…Bikes can take better lines, but they don't have near as much room for error as a car...
Bikes give a lot more adrenaline to their operators than cars ever will because of the danger factor. It is the danger involved in racing bikes that makes them the number one adrenaline pumping activity there is. (What else can give a steady supply of adrenaline?) There are lots of rules you have to NEVER break when racing a bike or bad things will happen. I could make at least two pages out of that alone, and that is an open list that you always add to. Learning how to race a bike is more dangerous than actually doing it. The beginning stages are more dangerous to a novice although slower speeds are used, than higher speeds are to a skilled rider.
Actually, Racefiend also said something very similar to what you just said, in your post, Jeff.
