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General Category => General Banter => Topic started by: Ray916MN on July 13, 2010, 07:18:15 PM

Title: Great, Wreckless, Who Knows, Wish I Could
Post by: Ray916MN on July 13, 2010, 07:18:15 PM

Watch the video. What does it make you think?

http://www.youtube.com/v/pGCGoYuX7fI&hl=en_US&fs=1

Title: Re: Great, Wreckless, Who Knows, Wish I Could
Post by: Ray916MN on July 13, 2010, 08:46:01 PM

Quote from: Lloyd on July 13, 2010, 08:42:09 PM

So are we allowed to editorialize? Or only vote from the above choices?

Have at it!

Title: Re: Great, Wreckless, Who Knows, Wish I Could
Post by: Ray916MN on July 13, 2010, 09:21:26 PM

Quote from: Lloyd on July 13, 2010, 09:08:26 PM

Snip...

So has anyone on here been there? Are there always that many spectators and camera people, I mean the one guy was set up on the roads edge with a swivel chair. Or does it appear the road was closed for this?

Open road, with photographers, videographers and spectators staking out certain sections to catch the action. YouTube has quite a few videos of cars and bikes from this road.

Killboy doing this at Deals Gap started this. He earns enough money from taking pics and selling them, that he has other photographers working for him. Push Mountain in AR also has photographers taking shots and selling them to the people coming by. As I understand it, in California the photographers and videographers also provide support as LEO spotters, with riders calling them up to ask if the road is clear before making a pass for the cameras.

Title: Re: Great, Wreckless, Who Knows, Wish I Could
Post by: Tumbler on July 13, 2010, 11:06:40 PM

My first thought was jealousy....because I would love to ride that road again!!

I don't think I was on the section in the video but have been on parts of Mulholland on my 2001 GSX-R back in Dec 2002.

Took a family trip out there & brought my bike with.  I had a blast on that road & all the roads I encountered in the Angeles National Forest.

I would love to go out there again sometime with the bike.

Title: Re: Great, Wreckless, Who Knows, Wish I Could
Post by: flyinlow on July 14, 2010, 07:57:45 AM

I've seen alot of video's of that section of Mulholland, those guys ride it quite frequently. More than likely the guy in the video has ridden it a bunch of times. Just like at the track, once you get to know the track, you can start cornering faster, leaning further, go faster.

I would certainly not ride this way on roads that I've never been on, or may have only been on once or twice. Plus around here, there's always the deer threat, farm vehicles, etc. around every corner, along with gravel kicked up on the road from people cutting corners. With Mulholland, the most you would need to be concerned about is the occasional rock slide, or the guy in front of you that went down.

Title: Re: Great, Wreckless, Who Knows, Wish I Could
Post by: tk on July 14, 2010, 12:31:12 PM

My first thought was I should move to SoCal. Second thing that came to mind was this would make a good sales video for Yamaha. On business trips
to LA I have had rental cars and I chased a Lotus (quite unsuccessfully) on this road. I would love to ride it on a bike someday.

Title: Re: Great, Wreckless, Who Knows, Wish I Could
Post by: Cam on July 14, 2010, 02:00:33 PM

Forget the guy on the bike,  I wanna know who that crazy bastard is that's riding a skateboard down the hill!!  ;D

Title: Re: Great, Wreckless, Who Knows, Wish I Could
Post by: Chris on July 14, 2010, 03:03:31 PM

Quote from: Cam on July 14, 2010, 02:00:33 PM

Forget the guy on the bike,  I wanna know who that crazy bastard is that's riding a skateboard down the hill!!  ;D

I thought that's what the thread was about, but leave it to Lloyd to high jack it and start talking about bikes  :P

Title: Re: Great, Wreckless, Who Knows, Wish I Could
Post by: flyinlow on July 14, 2010, 05:19:22 PM

Quote from: tk on July 14, 2010, 12:31:12 PM

My first thought was I should move to SoCal. Second thing that came to mind was this would make a good sales video for Yamaha. On business trips
to LA I have had rental cars and I chased a Lotus (quite unsuccessfully) on this road. I would love to ride it on a bike someday.

I'm with ya TK, move anyplace where a I can ride more year round. Northern Arkansas, Texas Hill country, California, north Georgia, Carolinas, eastern Tennessee, even Phoenix has some good riding in the mountains

Title: Re: Great, Wreckless, Who Knows, Wish I Could
Post by: VFJayR on July 17, 2010, 11:50:54 AM

I have been on that road a couple of times and it was fun, fun, fun..  Both times it was a weekday so there was almost no traffic.  I have heard that it can get really, really busy during the weekends.

The thing about the video is that there is no context.  The days that I was on it there were maybe 10 other vehicles total so if you were inclined you could really move right along