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From: essbaum@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Alexander Essbaum)
Subject: Re: V-max handling request
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Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1993 01:17:36 GMT
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In article <tcora-210493093955@b329-gator-3.pica.army.mil>, tcora@pica.army.mil (Tom Coradeschi) writes:
|> jearls@tekig6.PEN.TEK.COM (Jeffrey David Earls) wrote:
|> > 
|> > ba7116326@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg writes:
|> > >hello there
|> > >can anyone who has handson experience on riding the Yamaha v-max, pls kindly
|> > >comment on its handling .
|> > 
|> > 
|> >    Some guy came to the OMRRA race school last weekend with number plates
|> >    on his V-Max.  He didn't get more than 2 practice laps in before he pushed
|> >    the frame too hard and it drove him into the guard rail on the back
|> >    straight.
|> > 
|> >    BTW:  The rider was conscious and semi-coherent when the ambulance
|> >    carted him off.  That's all I know.
|> 

|> I hate to pick on someone who may have been seriously injured (let's hope
|> not), but: semi-coherent sounds like a good description of someone who
|> shows up at the track w/ a VMax in the first place:-{

what does that make me for showing up with an old interceptor with worse
brakes and handling (due to bent frame) than a VMAX?  and i didn't even...
uh....  well, i was more than semi-coherent when the ambulance....  uh....

nevermind.


axel


:)
