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05-01-2006, 11:54 PM
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| 100% Title Free   Joined: Feb 2006
Bike: '05 GSX-R750 (Anniversary Edition)
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Posts: 1,544
 |  Good ride this weekend. Canyon ride from Phoenix to Jerome, AZ. I didn't stop to take many pictures because I was having way too much fun. Traffic was unbelievably light, and the weather was ideal. There were tons of motorcycles out, including a few group rides. I saw a pack of Ducatis and Aprilias while I was stopped for this first picture, which sounded awesome as they winded their way towards me. I saw one of the guys on a Duc almost bite the dust (fall off a cliff) when he swung out too wide at the end of the turn. I covered a total of 282 miles, and I have a lot of bugs to scrub off the 750 today.  I started way down at the bottom.  Like I said, the perfect day.  Evidence of good twisties.  Before I moved to Arizona, I thought for some reason that there weren't many bugs here (I was wrong).
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05-02-2006, 12:02 AM
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| 100% Title Free Joined: Feb 2006
Bike: '05 GSX-R750 (Anniversary Edition)
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Posts: 1,544
| Shoot me a PM if you want some suggestions for good places to ride/hang out.
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05-02-2006, 12:08 AM
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| Sprocket Pilot   Joined: Mar 2006
Bike: '04 Vulcan 2000, '05 VTX1800
Location: Arlington, Texas
Posts: 866
| Will do. Also, cool chicken strips dude..... We should have a thread entirely of tire photos.... Kind of a show me yours, and I'll show you mine....(Works better if half are girls)
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05-02-2006, 12:17 AM
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| 100% Title Free Joined: Feb 2006
Bike: '05 GSX-R750 (Anniversary Edition)
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Posts: 1,544
| Before anyone on this board tears me apart, this was my second canyon ride EVER... so be gentle.
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05-02-2006, 08:21 AM
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| Et cetera ad nauseum   Joined: Dec 2003
Bike: 2002 Bandit 1200 S
Location: St. Cloud, MN, USA
Posts: 18,312
| What's with the giant chicken strips? (Oh, someone already zinged you on that.) 
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05-02-2006, 12:11 PM
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| 100% Title Free Joined: Feb 2006
Bike: '05 GSX-R750 (Anniversary Edition)
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Posts: 1,544
| Hey, there's always next weekend.
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05-02-2006, 12:25 PM
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| 100% Title Free Joined: Feb 2006
Bike: '05 GSX-R750 (Anniversary Edition)
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Posts: 1,544
| Even the gigantic airborne beetles?
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05-03-2006, 05:52 PM
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| 100% Title Free Joined: Feb 2006
Bike: '05 GSX-R750 (Anniversary Edition)
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Posts: 1,544
| Best day I've had in a while. Best grinder I had in a while too, when I stopped for lunch. 
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05-05-2006, 03:22 AM
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| Found second gear by accident   Joined: Aug 2004
Bike: suzuki bandit 400/ gsxr 600 k4/ gsxr 750 k7
Location: L.A.
Posts: 340
| cool roads, ok chicken strips, ride more in the canyons, or track, so you'll learn to lean more, the ability to lean the bike makes all the difference between a nice relaxed cnoyon carving and a hairy one, where you brake at the apex, and cross the double yellow because you're stuck with your lean angle. Does it sounds fammiliar?
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05-14-2006, 10:52 AM
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| Seat Tester  Joined: Mar 2006
Bike: 1999 katana
Location: AZ
Posts: 83
| looks like hwy89? man - great run. i did it up to prescott easter sunday but didnt have time to go further so had to come back AAand i had a camera in my pocket the whole way and never stopped to shoot because i was having so much fun i'd like to run up thru prescott and jerome into sedona and on to flagstaff one sunday soon, before its over 100 degrees the whole way. know of any riding clubs around here that are sportbike friendly? i'm looking for people to ride with |
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05-14-2006, 07:29 PM
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| Throttle Jockey   Joined: Oct 2005 Location: St Paul Mn
Posts: 3,137
| Looks like you had a great time killing bugs!! lol
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Also looks like you're leaning it pretty good.
