Suicide Chicken Tour 01 - Candidates

Hey all.

I've gathered my biker friends from all over the world and we are planning to do a motorcycle tour together. It's been hard to get everybody on conference call due to different time zone. But somehow I manage to pull out, due to my enthusiastic property and obsessive nature. Well, we decided a few roads to be taken.That will be decided later when we all are going to meet up...personally, all of us in a location yet decided. By the way, let me introduce you to the candidates first.

01. Carl Jenkins - North Carolina, USA.
02. Pietro Emmanuel - Rome, Italy.
03. Petrescu Coconul - Bucharest, Romania.
04. Tatewaki Kazuhiro - Osaka, Japan.
05. Raja Shaharul Izam - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
06. Khalid Abdurahman Mirza - Qom, Iran.

So far, these are the confirmed ones. Will update the list.

Suzuki Katana GSX-750F, Kuala Lumpur

This video belongs to a superbiker friend of mine from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia by the name of Raja Shaharul Izam. Watched it the first time when we first met during the phuket bike week few years back. We got along together quite well after that and has been so until now. I decided to beg him to upload this video.

Nothing special bout this video, just that i like the way Syahrul (so he was called) rides. He was a good travelling motorcycle partner, always cover up the rear, good safety practice, highly adaptable and very reliable. I miss riding with this easy going guy!

Anyhow, in this video, if you notice in the tunnel, he accelerate just a little bit and the bike, equipped with dynojet, went boom. Can feel it accelerating like it has rocket or something. FYI : this ain't his superbike.

western vs asian

nothing racist here. just poking fun... got this from some website. apparently it's already abundant, so i dont know who are the real author.

Did you ever compare that why and how Asian and Western country people are different from each others in lifestyle…. Here are some examples…

Blue Picture = Western People
Red Picture = Asian People

Case No. 1 – Expressing Opinions

Case No. 2 – Way Of Life

Case No. 3 – Punctuality

Case No. 4 – Contacts

Case No. 5 – When waiting in a Queue

Case No. 6 – Daily Life

Sport Touring

Sport Touring is one of the classes of motorcycle. These motorcycles are mutated offsprings of the evil sportbikes and the serene tourer. Imagine this...a Honda Fireblade CBR1000RR humps a Honda Gold Wing GL1800 and what do you get? A Honda Pan-European ST1300. Yeah, a different kind of breed that is totally awesome!

Honda Fireblade CBR1000RR

Honda Gold Wing GL1800

Honda Pan European ST1300

 A sport touring would have these basic characteristic, though not limited to :

- Handlebar that is higher than the tank, as opposed to sportbike's lower handlebar.

- Fairing and windscreen are larger than a sportbike but smaller than the tourer.

- Longer wheelbase for that straight road stability (less comfort than tourer, more comfort than sportbike).

- Higher ground clearance for smooth cornering (smoother than tourer, less smooth than sportbike).

- Mid-range power. Gives a bit of top speed for the sake of cruising speed comfort.

Bascally, you will feel that you can do more sportbiking on a tourer and do more touring with a sportbike. Get the idea? You can take corners with more swing and agility with a comfort of a tourer. But always remember, it wont feel as agood as it's original element. You will feel more comfort on a tourer and you can go faster and lean more in corners with a sportbike. 

All in all, the sport touring is in the middle of a tourer and a sportbike. Try picture riding a Fireblade with the capabilities of a Gold Wing. OK, so you wont get the most out of both bikes, but still, you have both elements cramped into one.

I'm lost for words. Go ride one. Here are some examples of sport touring bikes :

Honda ST1100, ST1300

Ducati ST2, ST3, ST4

Kawasaki GTR1000, 1400GTR,

Yamaha FJR1300

Triumph Sprint ST

BMW K1300GT, etc (they have a lot of sport touring model and to me, BMW makes the best sport touring motorcycle ever).

and the lsit goes on.....

tail of the dragon

today is the day im gonna take my new aprilia pegaso 650 strada for a long distance ride. with a 1089 miles, this bike sure needs some rough testing. so i decided to head to deals gap to test the tail of the dragon. take bout 2 hours rie from my home, so i cranked the pegaso after my orange juice breakfast at 5am and off i went. full tanked it the night before.

get to the tail of the dragon bout 8.30am and whoaaa!! greeted with some bikers on the road, waved, get waved back and go on. just dont have the time to chit chat and make friends with those fast riders. yeah, they were with the japs litre bikes and sure gonna pass me in few moments.

along the way, there were some people by the roadside took pictures. there were few bikers, a group of siblings on choppers who may have brought one of these photographers. nevermind them, when i do the 11 miles back, im gonna swing by and give em my boots if i see them again..hahaha..

the twisties here are mind boggling. with a dual purpose, im surely not getting the fun out of it. thinking that it might be as well that i use the st1100 for the road and this pegaso for the off road fun. i had to do a slow-in-slow-out corners, the bike responded well, but not well enough.

then came the bikers that waved me before. they overtook me effortlessly, with one even waved me during a tight corner. then i started to look at how they knee down with their body down when suddenly i realize how a fool i am. i was doing the exact body position as them!

ok, some of you might not get it. in a sportsbike or any road bike, when you lean into the corners, your body must be weight down together with the bike. lean down to the tarmac as low as you can get. but for an off-road, or a dual purpose, i remember watching in tv that they pull out their legs when in corner, making it somekind of a third wheel when cornering.

so i tried a right-hander with my right legs stretch out to the road...and my body counter the bike. now that feels right. through try and error, i started to get the feel on it. the bike is now easier to control and swing it on this horrible twisties. now i value the sports channel on tv.

stopped at the pumpkin store, had a few cigs and chit chatting with the sportbikers mentioned earlier. they are from new york and here for the weekend. didnt get their names. the less you know, the better you are. then continued on until the tail of the dragon store where i stopped for my packed sandwich brunch. few bikers are there and there's this one solo rider with a harley from nashville and heading to a two wheel inn. he said that it's a nice place for people like us to stop there for a night. but meaning it will be bout another 100miles. no thanks.

getting on the pegaso, starting to appreciate it and feels the comfort of it. getting more on the throttle, it's more easier once you know how to ride this piece of marvel. took less time to get back to the starting point. should have studied bout the bike before riding it!

see ya all...

pink my ride!

thinking of getting the st1100 with a pink color scheme. jane taught it will be cool. just make sure that it wont be too soft. a heavier and darker pink would surely looks nice on the st. cant find a pink st on the web, but there are few bikes with :

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