Well thanks for the kind words.  I look to the track people and elder gods of this site to get my info because you're the ones who know , but I do have to trust my own experiences as well (limited though they are).

I will agree 100%, my friends are not great riders - which i partially attribute to them starting on 600cc machines (and not that many miles).  I consider myself good, not great (yet), and after 10000 miles I feel like I know the GS and its (and mine, thus far) capabilities fairly well.  I have been complemented on my skill by a lot of people, including HD guys (at the grocery store no less ) and I use almost every ride to improve some skill.  There are no tracks around here so - as much as I hate to say it - the street is my track (out on the country back roads mostly) but still in the city I use my rides to teach myself.  My philosophy summed up is this: "I don't ride fast, but I ride aggressively".

Anyway... this thread got way off topic - Bluehaze thank you for the awesome vid

Yea yea yea ... that's such a great idea, I also am a terrible rider cos I also started on 600's, ninja 600 was my first bike after a KB100 in india, then I bought a 650 nitehawk, then a virago 535, then a Katana 600 before I even saw a GS. So yea ...  , but for the havoc wreaked by 4cyl bikes, I'd be a really good rider. Like a racer ... maybe even MotoGP champion. Yea, beat it Rossi ... BTW that's a chick name ... Buddha is here.
Cool.
Buddha.

That looks like a fun track, what was it?

BTW, was that a scooter I saw out there at one point?

That was pacific raceways in WA state.

Bluehaze, you didn't happen to have the camera on when you went down did you?

yea video was on when i went down. That was a couple of hours after this video. Not very dramatic.. you just see the bike fall sideways.. 

No scooters on the track that i know of.

I thought I saw one at 1:01, but I just watched again and it isn't. Dude was riding like he was on one though!

Quote from: bucks1605 on October 14, 2009, 05:36:15 PM
I thought I saw one at 1:01, but I just watched again and it isn't. Dude was riding like he was on one though!

But ... but ... but ... that's only cos you're on the greatest machine ever made ... period, in the greatest color combination ever made ...
Cool.
Buddha.

Re: A peek at what GS can do on the track.