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Old May 4, 2011 | 10:35 AM
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Originally Posted by brenn
Yep - I started in eastern KY, where all the roads are similar to the dragon, on a plain old Honda CB 750, and on those curves, there should be no way a car catches a motorcycle. But...a bicycle?
On a road course its the cars that are faster than bikes. When I raced Nelson Ledges, SCCA track record was couple of seconds less than bikes.

In a real world...who knows. There are bad drivers, but there are also riders who think that learning to ride is overrated....
 
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