louemc
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the street, unlike the track, is not a controlled environment.
Those things will all help you survive some situations. It only takes one weird combination of stuff - let's say [choose one only, please] loose gravel/sand/leaves/antifreeze/oil/diesel/water (yes, water) all the way across your side of the road in the middle of a decreasing radius blind corner that you're excellent skills allow you to take at, say, 50 mph, which is double the posted 25mph (I know you can do it) - and a dually pickup pulling a 5th wheel camper coming the other way with only a couple wheels over the double yellow, crawling up a hill. And you're doing 50. Think you're going to back 'er in, like you would on your dirt bike? Throw some roost on the exit? No. You're not. Newtonian physics will take over and things will get ugly from there. Hubris and motorcycling do not go well together - at least not for very long.
Be safe out there.
That all gets canceled out by looking. Your describing things that can be seen, and fast guys have gotten that way by seeing in a way slower guys never do. It's a mental discipline. ZX-10 has a long history, Trust me, hazards dealt with, are that history. That history is also one of knowing when to slow down, and when you can do something else. It's a rapid changing thing in the un-controled public street/road/highway. Some can do it, some can't.
Watch the Isle of Man front runners, They can because that is what they do. It isn't something that just happens on Race day, it is what they do, as a way of life.
When the shit hits the fan because of (more often than not) the close quarters action of a vehicle driven by a distracted or really un-qualified to drive, driver. The action required to avoid that vehicle is exactly the action that was developed in the history that ZX-10 has.
But whether it (the shit that hit the fan) is a road surface condition or heavy metal in the wrong, The skills ZX-10 is talking about are the ones that save the day.
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