Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > how well do you ride on the road? sensible, good, bad or just on the limits.

[phil_h]

I used to ride (and drive) a lot faster, but the traffic in sussex has really gone up in the last 10 years, and the 30/40 speed limits have been creeping further everywhere.
Since starting racing, I dont find I need to get a fix so much, but, like TP says, sometimes you dont realise you are going the speed you are cos your abilities have improved.
I think I'm probably more dangerous going to work on my 1959 velocette 350 than on the 748sps, cos I _have_ to cut up traffic more to get past

I had a wake-up call of a strange kind last year - I was coming home from work after a weekend's racing, and was on my old 1982 900ss bevel at the time, and touched a silencer bracket down around a roundabout.
Now you have to see the ground clearence on them to believe it, and I had never touched it down before, and I didnt feel as if I was going fast.
I've gone off bikes that make going fast too easy since then