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Without a doubt, but I’m not ready to die yet.
Like anything else, you have to learn to ride slowly, before you can go fast.

Once you master this technique, it is just practice, practice, practice.

Suzuki SV650 is a great starter bike, cheap for track days, good leathers, helmet, boots, gloves .... and a lifetime of fun, for minimal expense :)

.... don't forget a cheap trailer for the 'inevitable dismount', to get your Motorcycle home.

.... if you don't occasionally 'fall off', you will never find the limits of man and machine.
 
... you should try riding a 1000cc sports Motorcycle ..... a car is quite boring, by comparison.
Have you ever shot through narrow rock walls with a wingsuit? By comparison, your motorcycle feels like pushing a walker in front of you. Everything is relative. When it comes to cars, the 765LT is something pretty damn extreme and unique.
 
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Have you ever shot through narrow rock walls with a wingsuit? By comparison, your motorcycle feels like pushing a walker in front of you. Everything is relative. When it comes to cars, the 765LT is something pretty damn extreme and unique.
"Wingsuit" is similar to a high power motorcycle, but with an extra dimension.... both are fun and dangerous sports.

765LT is a great car, but still just a car ...... the visceral feeling on a Motorcycle is exponentially greater!
 
Have you ever shot through narrow rock walls with a wingsuit? By comparison, your motorcycle feels like pushing a walker in front of you. Everything is relative. When it comes to cars, the 765LT is something pretty damn extreme and unique.
Meh… How fast are you actually going in a wingsuit? I would bet folding money that a lap around the Isle of Man or Macau is way more thrilling than a wingsuit.
 
Pffttt. All lame. You guys get back to me when you decide on playing Russian roulette with a revolver loaded with 5 shots, while ejecting out of a Mach 10 plane, and where youre holding on to a dead man switch remote to your unsuspecting families at home, where if detonated, a relay triggers an explosion on a fault line, that will lead to a fissure that will reach yellowstone and trigger the super volcano, that will tilt the icecaps to shift immediately at the same time the tectonic plates are splitting into Africa's new ocean, ripping the planet apart. And that’s just what I do to kill time on an average Wed after my dental cleaning ! On Friday nights we pull out dueling supercolliders!/endTopper :D

Todays actual excitement, I might get a tasty Vanilla cone from the local Sonic after marveling how much the cows manage to shit on the road and how that oddly saves me money on taxes. (I know, adrenaline junkie) :D
 
Meh… How fast are you actually going in a wingsuit? I would bet folding money that a lap around the Isle of Man or Macau is way more thrilling than a wingsuit.
It depends what you're doing in a wingsuit. From a plane, a wingsuit is tedious. Doing terrain flying from the top of a mountain is probably the most thrilling thing it's possible for a human to do short of going into space, imo.
 
It depends what you're doing in a wingsuit. From a plane, a wingsuit is tedious. Doing terrain flying from the top of a mountain is probably the most thrilling thing it's possible for a human to do short of going into space, imo.
Could be, never done it. But I would guess @Iron5 has never done a full race lap on a superbike in anger, either.
 
Never sat in one with a scoop, but from pics, looks like you are losing some visibility out the rear window - any truth to that ? Compromise if so.
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BAT is one medium to sell. I know of a 765 spider with a $450k spec that is being sold for $650k as we speak.

Go walk a tight rope over the Grand Canyon with no safety harness, go solo free climb a mountain with no rope. Go shark diving with no cage...blah blah...In the meantime I’ll just have to live with driving my boring 765LT...

I will say...those Isle of Man folks are missing a few screws...just nuts what they do!

edit: almost forgot...to you bike guys...go run a few laps of super cross or MotoX. The problem is 99% of riders aren’t good enough to clear the jumps!! Makes street racing feel positively pedestrian and much more physically demanding as well.
 
Roof scoop looks poorly integrated to me and aesthetically isn’t pleasing. It was perfect on the P1, 675 and obviously F1 the true GOAT.
It doesn't feed the engine, it goes to a couple small nipples in the engine bay.
 
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