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11-01-2006, 07:46 PM
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| Newbie Joined: Nov 2006
Bike: 2002 Honda VTX1800C in Blurple
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|  MSF Test Specs I want to recreate the MSF Test "course" in a local parking lot for my wife. Can anyone tell me the layout and sizes? I particularly need the size of the "figure-8 box". Thanks. Regards, Jim |
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11-01-2006, 07:57 PM
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| Clunked into first gear   Joined: Oct 2006
Bike: Honda vf700c Magna
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11-01-2006, 07:58 PM
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| Clunked into first gear Joined: Oct 2006
Bike: Honda vf700c Magna
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| Motorcycle Safety Foundation actually, looking at it now, im not sure if it helps at all, if you can read any of that.
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11-01-2006, 10:09 PM
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| What makes you say that?   Joined: Dec 2003
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| Wow, there it all is in rediculous detail. Jim, if you can consistently do circles in both directions on half a residential street without touching down, and you can stop effectively using mostly your front brake, you'll pass with no trouble.
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11-01-2006, 11:47 PM
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| Clunked into first gear Joined: Oct 2006
Bike: Honda vf700c Magna
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| yeah i've been working on locking my fork doing u turns, figure 8s are just extensions of uturns. if you can do it tight and slow, you shouldn't have a problem.
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11-02-2006, 05:43 AM
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| Muscle Biker   Joined: Jul 2004
Bike: Blue Suzuki GSX 1400 (2003)
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| The slower you are moving, the more difficult the circles and figure-8s become. I took an advanced safety course this year - we had to do circles and 8's as slow as possible (walking speed). The point of the exercise was to show how unstable the bike becomes at those speeds.
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