Agreed! At 56 I'm neither young nor old. I'm not fast nor slow -- I call myself half-fast ;-) Today I came up on two young guys on current sport bikes. Cruising around 80-100 on the straights and so slow in the turns I almost ran into them until I realized they couldn't ride! The Pace (tm) is important!!!
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sadly, 'The Pace' usually refers these days to throttle control to keep a bike at balance point.........
Last year I giggled like a school girl watching a dude on a VRod completely blow a pack of sport bike riders away on the first turn we even hit. It looked like a pinball game seeing all the sport bikers bouncing off each other cause they couldn't hold a line thru even a simple turn
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