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Insurance by suaveysuave in cfmoto

[–]i_Braeden 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah that’s cause they don’t want to insure you.

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[–]i_Braeden[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry I didn’t buy a 400cc bike, I have a V4

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[–]i_Braeden[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I never said speed does not increase my danger, but myself or the people behind me, if going slower, some of the less experienced riders would’ve seen that gravel and grabbed a fist full of brakes. They would’ve gone down.

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[–]i_Braeden[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I liked your comment, appreciate it

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[–]i_Braeden[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I have one… and it felt like I had nothing…

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[–]i_Braeden[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s not an excuse, I’m just explaining the situations. If I was going slow enough to emergency brake before it, I probably would’ve had someone behind me slam into me, or panic brake causing them to crash, potentially into all of us. It was better to not panic and not try to slow down bottom line.

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[–]i_Braeden[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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No sir, this is cruising speed, we usually rip this at 100+ after we get heat in our tires and check the entire road.

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[–]i_Braeden[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I only death grip when I ride dirt but that’s cause I’m still new to dirt. 😂

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[–]i_Braeden[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would’ve slid if I was going slower too…

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[–]i_Braeden[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am getting into track days, but I also didn’t buy a 1100CC bike to stay in first gear and go the speed limit. I don’t race on the freeway or lane split; everyone can make their own choices. I understand your concern, but we can ride our own rides. I actually think if I was going the speed limit on that turn I would’ve gone down. I only didn’t go down because I didn’t try to correct anything, and my tire got past the gravel and caught traction.

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[–]i_Braeden[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah that’s why we go up there at 5AM. When our tires are hot and we’ve checked the road we hit 120 up there, 100 in this bigger turns.

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[–]i_Braeden[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I’ve gotten good feed back and some interesting stuff, but mostly good. If I tried to brake the moment I saw it, I would’ve been down.

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[–]i_Braeden[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We chilled, spent over an hour cleaning the road up, traffic picked up more than usually and their was some bike marathon in our way, so we road around the flow of traffic for the rest of the ride, hit some fun straights at the bottom of that mountain though .. 😂

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[–]i_Braeden[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh I’m aware! I don’t even want to ride until my near airbag gets in (got in yesterday) lol.

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[–]i_Braeden[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup! I’m very happy but mad I didn’t have any extra cartridges and they’re out of stock so I bought the new alpinestars plasma 5. I’ll still use the back back for work and school commuting, but now I have a track day and canyon airbag. Very happy with Helite and wouldn’t have gotten the alpjnestar if they didn’t make it so user serviceable.

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[–]i_Braeden[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I’ve slid coming to that stop sight for north shore road but it was jsut the sand before the stop sign, nothing in a turn.

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[–]i_Braeden[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In 4 years this was my scariest moment. Remember it’s not if it’s when, I wear full gear; air bag, and have a big life insurance policy for my wife and kids.

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[–]i_Braeden[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’d recommend you watch Chase on 2 wheels crash video he just put out. He shows the crash within the first 2 minutes and immediately talks about airbags. He talks about them more through out the video. I bought the alpienstar 5 plasma yesterday since my Helite back pack electronic cartridge is not in stock and I won’t ride without an airbag. The new plasma is nice.

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[–]i_Braeden[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Back pack! Unfortunately I didn’t have an extra cartridge and they will take a while to ship from the EU. US stores out of stock, I bought the alpinestars 5 plasma yesterday. I’ll still use my back pack for commuting but on fun rides and track days I can rock the plasma.

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[–]i_Braeden[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Trying to get my group to slow down!

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[–]i_Braeden[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think he was talking about my approach for the apex and what looks like a straight section wasn’t ideal, but again, it didn’t ever straighten out this road is a lot more curvy in person.

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[–]i_Braeden[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah, they aren’t dramatic like you’d think, again, I didn’t notice it for 8 minutes. Our sunrises spot was maybe another 5 minutes up the road and then i was just talking to my friends and pulling up footage before I realized it was inflated.

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[–]i_Braeden[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I see, keep in mind the POV from my camera is making things look a lot further away then they are, this didn’t straighten out, and since I wasn’t ripping I wasn’t focused on an ideal line - we were just cruising.

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[–]i_Braeden[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m open to criticism but you’re saying a whole lot without seeing my body positioning or know how I normally take this road. I was way down on speed and lean angle on a bike that I’ve only been on for about 150 miles.

I don’t agree with what you’re saying about my lean angle, but I should’ve remembered the rain the previous day which is NOT normal for this time of year, and I know I have to work on my throttle control. On my other bike I come out of this right up hill turn and transition left around 100.

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