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<blockquote data-quote="SDarkRage" data-source="post: 3519715" data-attributes="member: 3492"><p>Those guys are beyond the well above average range on their reaction times. Back in the mid to late 90’s, I had an opportunity to race factory road bikes in the 1000cc class. I road a factory Ducati 916 SS/RS and wasn’t half bad, but no where in the league of these guys. You have to be so mentally into it, it’s unreal. You can’t take a split second to make a decision because if you do, you already 100 yards passed the oh crap point. I started at 16 and quit when I was 18, I just walked away from it, sponsors and all. I had a mishap at 120 mph going around a curve at the race track in Peoria, Illinois. A guy had ran off the course and hit the pea gravel a lap before but they didn’t clean the track super good during the caution. Under green the next time around, I came whipping through there dragging my knee and saw the patch of light sand on the road ahead right where I was going to be passing through. I had just enough time to process that I was going to go down no matter what. I don’t remember taking my hands off the bike but I remember as soon as we left the road way laying side ways I pushed off from the bike. I don’t remember tucking my hands under my armpits but I remember skipping across the gravel before the darkness. I got lucky. According to my dad and the race officials, when I pushed off from the bike it was enough to send it a few feet farther passed me where it hit the hay bails about the same time I did. I managed to hit the bails flat on my back with my legs straight out which allowed me to walk away with only bruising - my back and legs were black and blue for a couple weeks. No concussion, no cuts, no broken bones. It’s a testament to the riding gear and how good that stuff actually is. I never raced again after that, I never could mentally get back in it. Now I just watch in awe at what those riders can do, it really is a magnificent feat when you consider the speed, timing, and how little of the bike actually makes contact with the ground.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SDarkRage, post: 3519715, member: 3492"] Those guys are beyond the well above average range on their reaction times. Back in the mid to late 90’s, I had an opportunity to race factory road bikes in the 1000cc class. I road a factory Ducati 916 SS/RS and wasn’t half bad, but no where in the league of these guys. You have to be so mentally into it, it’s unreal. You can’t take a split second to make a decision because if you do, you already 100 yards passed the oh crap point. I started at 16 and quit when I was 18, I just walked away from it, sponsors and all. I had a mishap at 120 mph going around a curve at the race track in Peoria, Illinois. A guy had ran off the course and hit the pea gravel a lap before but they didn’t clean the track super good during the caution. Under green the next time around, I came whipping through there dragging my knee and saw the patch of light sand on the road ahead right where I was going to be passing through. I had just enough time to process that I was going to go down no matter what. I don’t remember taking my hands off the bike but I remember as soon as we left the road way laying side ways I pushed off from the bike. I don’t remember tucking my hands under my armpits but I remember skipping across the gravel before the darkness. I got lucky. According to my dad and the race officials, when I pushed off from the bike it was enough to send it a few feet farther passed me where it hit the hay bails about the same time I did. I managed to hit the bails flat on my back with my legs straight out which allowed me to walk away with only bruising - my back and legs were black and blue for a couple weeks. No concussion, no cuts, no broken bones. It’s a testament to the riding gear and how good that stuff actually is. I never raced again after that, I never could mentally get back in it. Now I just watch in awe at what those riders can do, it really is a magnificent feat when you consider the speed, timing, and how little of the bike actually makes contact with the ground. [/QUOTE]
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