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Showdown with a 'Vette

4.3K views 68 replies 31 participants last post by  2002yamahar1  
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Holy smokes these corvettes are fast. I was exiting the freeway and took off in first gear. Then outta nowhere this car comes up behind me and starts tailgating me. I accelerate even harder but can't seem to lose him. He then merges over to the next lane and shoots off like a damn space shuttle. 20 secs later we meet up at a stoplight, I look over to check out the car. We say "what's up" to each other. I congratulate him for having such fast car. Then he makes a right hand turn and takes off again. Good god, I will never **** with a vette again. They fast fast fast period!!
 
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Damn.................

So did you park the Vespa and go home to get your R1 and look for his ass?:confused:
 
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Tron I'm right there with ya..My buddies got a vette and he can't keep with my one. I don't know how you ride Kev but you shoulda smoked his ass and then some
 
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110 in 3rd!!! holy crap. We are just get barely getting outta 2nd on our Yammi's....Damn I don't even remember being that slow!!! :p
 
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If I remember right you can hit 70-80 before you even need to switch to 2nd... I just wrecked on Tues I don't think it's effected my head that much....:)
 
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on my f4 first gear bangs out at around 70. I usually don't like to shift at redline since shifting from 1st to second at that high rpm causes the gears to make this hideous grinding noise. My first priority tommorow is to re-evaluate my riding style. The road we were on was extremely twisty so riding style is much more crucial than rediculous amounts of power. But hell, I still want something faster.
 
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to add to tates question is it an f4i? And hey Tate make sure you lube the bear tonight...I read that post on off-topic...your a pretty funny *****er man
 
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Tate Chesley said:
hey kevinc, does your bike have any mods or anything?
just -1 down front with a yosh slip-on. the slip-on was installed because i like the sound unfortunately it doesn't result in any power gains. I really gotta ask, how many of you guys actually push past 100 while riding in the mountains. 100 is my absolute max when I rode down mullhuland hwy out here in SF valley, CA. I've ridden with some of cali's finest and none of them ever go past that. So be honest, do you guys ever use the r1's absolute maximum power?
 
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Hey Kevin this is my favorite turn in the city. It exits off the freeway and goes downhill. I can take a turn like that at about 80 with exit speed at about 100. I've tuned my R1's suspension too. So now she sticks like a biatch or did anyway she's gone now...tear...:cryin
 

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PVT JET said:
Hey Kevin this is my favorite turn in the city. It exits off the freeway and goes downhill. I can take a turn like that at about 80 with exit speed at about 100. I've tuned my R1's suspension too. So now she sticks like a biatch or did anyway she's gone now...tear...:cryin
tate, is this a freeway in the L.A. area? cuz i'm not sure i've seen it before. that looks like a wide turn. No offense or anything, but if I was only riding 80 in a turn like that I would run the risk of falling asleep from boredom.
 
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No it's in NM. And I don't think you can see it very well it's one lane downhill and 360 degrees of turn.. I guess you can't tell from the pic but it's pretty tight
 
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PVT JET said:
to add to tates question is it an f4i? And hey Tate make sure you lube the bear tonight...I read that post on off-topic...your a pretty funny *****er man

Yeah thank goodness that bear was on some heavy a$$ drugs. He don't look like it but he weighed about 500 pounds, at the end of summer he ended up gaining weight to over 700!:eek:
 
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Dude if I were single I would be asking you for a job...Liked the postcard of the place your at.. Looks beautiful up there. Dated a girl from Alaska and she was gonna get me a job on the pipeline..Never worked out had to the ditch the bitch she was a lunatic..I blamed it on lack of sun in the winter...:D
 
#24 ·
Yeah some people do go a little crazy up here so they put these light lamps in the tv room. Be walking by and see some guy sitting there with the light lamp on trying to catch some rays, kinda weird cause it seems that mostly bald dudes are sitting by them
 
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:D :D :D

Yeah I remember seeing something on like 20/20 or something about that..I even recomended that to her...:lol