Motorcycles + Autocross

It may be time to allow it....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJxOsYh12yY&feature=player_embedded

That is d@mn impressive, and I don't even ride.

I saw this over on buzzfeed this morning and almost posted it, too. Berkeleying amazing and probably not representative of your average motorcycle cop. ;)

Here's a couple more! (Stolen from a thread a couple years ago that had similar stuff)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHC376AsEkk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ-pTyQZJng

I was at an autocross where it was tried.

Once.

I well understand why it isn't normally allowed.

No doubt there are those that can dance a bike well. Most folk do a sliding crash by the 3rd turn.

Wow. I expected a WR250 or the like. Damn impressive on a berkeleying huge bike!

I simply cannot ride like that. Knowing that a bike that size can do that, I really have to work on my low-seed skills.

My bike weighs about a quarter of that thing, and I'm not sure I could do that on it.

Damn, Ponch has been practicing!

Am I sick for secretly hoping an 18 wheeler would come flying over the hill terminator-style?

I think your standard autocross course would be too wide open for a bike to run safely. Considering their rate of acceleration and relative lack of contact patch - not to mention sensitivity to surface condition - I think you'd just wind up seeing a lot of wrecks.

I loathe that motorcycle. The rider is good.

That was ridiculous, I've never seen anything like that, thanks for sharing!

poopshovel wrote: Am I sick for secretly hoping an 18 wheeler would come flying over the hill terminator-style?

No, because at least in my head, as good as that guy is.... that'd be one helluva chase scene.

I have seen that type of cop competition at The Bike to the Bricks event in Flint. It is a spectacle worth seeing at least once. It is fun to hoot at the cops that screw up.

Usually when you screw up with a car in autox, it mostly just damages your pride. If you screw up with a motorcycle, I could see people getting hurt much more easily.

Yeah, wow. Amazing control and concentration.

saw a micro bike do a course in SC once the stipulation was he wear full leathers and full face helmet, his time was not all that impressive but his control was impressive.

BradLTL wrote: It may be time to allow it.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJxOsYh12yY&feature=player_embedded That is d@mn impressive, and I don't even ride.

What was the training course he mentioned at the end of the video? When I get my Gold Wing running, I want to take that course.

In reply to Snowdoggie:

You get some of that in the AMA "learn to ride" course. I'm sure there are more advanced courses where you can really learn bike control.

Need more cones to outline the course.

That guy was turning into his foot wells. You can hear them grinding while he's doing circles in the middle at 23 seconds in. Still impressive work for a heavy cruiser. You want to see control watch a moto gp race. Check out Stoner drifting his back wheel mid turn at 150 mph. Or Dirtbike and Motard riders. Those guys take turns at the craziest angles with one leg out. And stunt riders, they define two wheel control.

That guy was turning into his foot wells. You can hear them grinding while he's doing circles in the middle at 23 seconds in. Still impressive work for a heavy cruiser. You want to see control watch a moto gp race. Check out Stoner drifting his back wheel mid turn at 150 mph. Or Dirtbike and Motard riders. Those guys take turns at the craziest angles with one leg out. And stunt riders, they define two wheel control.

Think they used enough cones? No way I could remember that course. Now as for autocross for motorcycles, is/was an organization called Battletrax that that supported motorcycle autocrosses. Back in Buell's heyday, the company even sponsored the Battletrax series.

There are a few things wrong with that video.

1. That big Harley was actually TURNING.

2. That big Harley was SCRAPING in the turns.

3. That big Harley was very QUIET.

4. The rider was wearing too much riding gear.

OK, I'll stop now. :) Seriously, though, that was some impressive riding. I certainly can't do that on my bike, which is smaller than that.

Way to go Ponch!!

I doubt I could walk that course without hitting a cone.