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I Almost Killed Myself Today On 11th Highway (Orillia)

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Flywheel said:
Don't feel sorry. Like ItIsWhatItIs, Pegs posts ridiculous stories, asks for advice and then proceeds to insult everyone that bothers taking him seriously. Next time around, there's a few more GTAMers ready to take potshots.
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I don't discriminate. I'll swing at the slow pitches.
 
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ItIsWhatItIs said:
If someone called me ignorant and I require training I would find this offensive and a insult coming from someone with zero track record on GTAM.
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I find this level of thinking on many forums. Instead of looking at the rider, his experience and knowledge, many look only at post count or time involved in a forum. A couple Weeks ago Nick Ienatsch (Yamaha School of Champions) joined the FZ1 forums. Should I ignore and discedit anything he has to say because his post count is 16 and he is a new member? If you have not meet and do not know the rider spend a little less time telling them they don't know anything.
 
I think most sensible people would not discount advice of others solely based on a low post count. Only fools do that and it usually shows pretty quickly, right?

But why does it feel like stating the most obvious thing known to Internet? ....
 
it's the beauty of anonymity of the interwebs! You can say and do whatever you want and no one knows who you are...unless you really anger them...then watch out for death by CAPS LOCK...
 
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Outlaws Justice said:
I find this level of thinking on many forums. Instead of looking at the rider, his experience and knowledge, many look only at post count or time involved in a forum. A couple Weeks ago Nick Ienatsch (Yamaha School of Champions) joined the FZ1 forums. Should I ignore and discedit anything he has to say because his post count is 16 and he is a new member? If you have not meet and do not know the rider spend a little less time telling them they don't know anything.
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Yes, you should definitely ignore him. That "The Pace" stuff was crap :lol:
 
Kedo said:
Did you read my original post or just the edit? I did not call the OP ignorant.
I stated that there is a fine line between confidence and ignorance and he needs to be careful of the difference.
If you read the whole post, I quoted where he said "Well if it's not mechanical I don't know what else I can learn". In summation I thought there was still room to learn so more training may be required.

I will say that I think it is ignorant for you to attack me for my opinion.
Without knowing me personally, you have based my skill on how long I have been a member of GTAM or by how many posts I have made. Now that shows ignorance in itself.
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The flaming has shifted from the op to me. I have come to expect this from GTAM. That'a ok. Your exact post

Kedo said:
Glad to hear that you didn't become a statistic.
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The op is also lucky this was not observed by the police. If they saw this he could have easily been charged with careless driving if he didn't fabricate a story to throw the cop off. ie, "my rear tire slipped on a rock officer and so on."

Kedo said:
You may want to rethink your prior post and acknowledge that skills on ramps may be something you are still lacking.:confused1:
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If you are going fast enough to lean your bike to the point of sliding out from under you, I guarantee the rider was going 2 to 3 times the posted on ramp speed. The op admitted to pushing his bikes limits. His screwing around didn't work out for him. Are you suggesting he go and practice? If so, and you knowing this should warrant you reporting this to the orillia opp as I wouldn't want you to be a GTAM pussy, as per your signature.

Kedo said:
There is confidence, and there is ignorance, :rolleyes:a fine line can seperate them.
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Not a shot at the op? I see it as one.

Kedo said:
It definitely appears that more training is required.
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The op was riding his bike in a manner contrary to the rules of the road and you believe he requires more training?

You have your followers and I can't wait for their follow up remarks.:rolleyes:
 
ItIsWhatItIs said:
If you are going fast enough to lean your bike to the point of sliding out from under you, I guarantee the rider was going 2 to 3 times the posted on ramp speed.
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I'll tell you why that isn't necessarily true.

Back when I was doing track days fairly routinely, on my old '88 FZR400, I was generally in the intermediate group. That's the group for slow buggers, who can at least find something vaguely like a line, and the young punks who aren't afraid to drag their elbows, but couldn't find a line if it was actually painted on the track. I've never been fast, never will be, but I frequently caught up to modern 600 supersports that were dragging hard parts, while having barely any lean angle at all. I lost count of the number of times I would come up on some guy in Nelson 3, aimed right at the side of his bike, that was tossing sparks from the pegs.

There's a right way and a wrong way around a corner. Take the wrong way and you can have massive lean angle, at a lower speed, and make the corner orders of magnitude tougher than it should be. How do you avoid that? Practice and training.
 
ItIsWhatItIs said:
The flaming has shifted from the op to me. I have come to expect this from GTAM.
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Sorry, but I am not on anyones team. First I am in agreement that the OP pushed his limits, NOT the Bikes limits at least not at those speeds. Also no one bashed you. I stated the truth when you made the comment bashing anyone who has not been a member or haveing a post count to match or better yours. A really stupid way to evaluate peoples opinions.
 
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