Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 15:38:25 -0800 From: gayathri Organization: Hooligans on Naked Bikes Subject: Re: What Song Do _You_ Ride out to? Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 15:28:57 -0800 From: gayathri actually, when I'm _racing_ there isn't any music. There is me and the asphalt and this throttle and this brake and this clutch thingie. there's this burn in my ligaments in my legs as I try to get my knee down. There's the wind *pouring* over me as I go into turn 8 and realize how quickly turn 9 comes if I don't look LOOK LOOK as far as I can. and there's that litany in my head. LOOK, you *(&^(^(, look. Sit up, slide off, roll off, clutch, brake, downshift (keep LOOKING.), hang on with your toes and knees, now UP back onto the bike, roll on HARD, look for turn two (ignore that noise behind you, you are a BARn DOOR to that bastard), upshift, turn your head left, slide off, hang on with your knee and elbow, *LOOK!!!*, roll off (Not too much), roll on, keep looking into forever, keep rolling on... roooooolllllllllllll (this is turn two, its long. its really long) and ... NOW, straighten up, get your chest on that tank, butt up against the rear, HOLD that throttle open... see brake marker, sit up. slide off, roll off, clutch, brake, downshift... roll on and look for the BUDWeiser... hang off onto the other side, one smooth motion moving from left to right... (wish I could get down more, miss that chunk, and LOOK, I know all i see is the fucking turn worker station, KEEP LOOKING......staaaay on that throttle.. see asphalt, and go DOWN the hill... aim for the gator bars, tap the brakes and hang off... get back onto the throttle, aim for the inside gator bars and look up that damn hill. Upshift before leaning right again, upshift at the top of the hill (whoo! wriggle that rear... ) and schooch down until I'm as small as I can be. Breath in, breath out. HOLD the throttle open. upshift again. loooook thru 7 into 8. loooook, and upshift one more time. 6th gear. get that thing wide open. just keep looking. Dont look at the god damn tach. Love the bike, slide off but stay close. dont lose those RPMs... hold it.. hold it... here comes turn 9. Slide off. Hold it. hold it. Look into the front straight. Keep going, we haven't seen Elvis yet. hold it. Downshift. NOW! go! lean... and ... ROLL ON! (yes! 11.5K rpms! i did it!) and try to become one with the paint as you schooch behind the bubble going past start finish upshifting... and here we are, back at turn 1. there's a lot more swearing going on. hope it doesn't rain on sunday. -- Gayathri --------------------------------------------------------------- gayathri@labiker.com Calamari Club #002, CCS/WSMC #98 '88 FZR400 ('gurlzbike') '98 T595 Daytona, "huckleberry" "People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." - Kierkegaard