Street race 999 vs. GSXR1000

[Grappa]

Totally insane!  And a bit foolish if you ask me.  Looks like a popular road for motorcycles though.  Was the speedo really in MPH, or was it kilometers?

[Pancake81]

Holy sh!t Balls. That was awsome, dumb and beautiful all in one.

[dzraduzit]

So the double yellow lines aren't as slippery there as in the states?

[Dockstrada]

those guys have lost it 

[duc996]

So the double yellow lines aren't as slippery there as in the states?

Im sure they're still slippery,they are just too crazy to worry about yellow paint

[chaos321]

Why title that clip "street race"? It was not a race at all, it was a GSXR filming a 999 doing the business. That's all! At any time during that whole clip the GSXR could have slapped the 999 on the ass and showed him how it's done! But since this is a copy of a ducati world, I suppose you can read it any way you like!

[hypurone]

It's sh1t like this that gives us all a bad name in the publics' eye. I like haulin ass as much as the next guy (well ok, mebbe more than the next guy) but beyond the "braking" skills, I saw nothing else other than being braindead. Anyone can cross over the centerline to make a corner or maintain control. You got skills when you can keep it in your own lane, in my book! Most of those passes were beyond braindead. 

Flame away...

[Grappa]

Just watched it again on the big screen.  Pretty sure the speedo is reading kilometers/hour.  (After all, they are in Greece, right?)  Otherwise those guys would have exceeded 200 MPH a few times, and I don't think that's possible.  Still some crazy-ass-balls-to-the-wall-riding though.     But I agree that guys like this give motorcyclists a bad rep.  And you shouldn't push it that far unless on a track, IMO.

[DoubleEagle]

Sort of reminded me of some of the riding I've done and lived to ride again. Not with so much lane splitting with trucks coming the other way though. The first rider looked pretty smooth where as the second rider I felt was just hanging on many times. Not a good idea to do that much in the US. It's such an adrenaline rush that you tend to ride above your comfort zone and then you have to be perfect or 99.9% perfect or you're going to the hospital or worse.Fun to watch.

[CDawg]

No doubt they are skilled (much more skilled than me), but this is just stupid squids...either stay in your lane or take it to the tracks. 

[sisca77]

  Crazy riding skills but totally stupid.

[matt922]

thread from the dead, but it was a good one  [moto]

[sbrguy]

you know its not "riders like these" that give motorcyclists a bad name.

its people that are looking for "excuses" to give riders a bad name that then say "all riders are bad" when seeing this.

a few bad or irresponsible people don't give an entire group a bad name, its people that want to give a bad name to a group of people that give "that group a bad name".

afterall if "people like this" give a group a bad name, then that whole other thread about the woman that wanted her smelly crotch eaten would give "all women a bad name" but that is just not true. unless of course you are looking to just do that.   

[ccm900]

there's like, 50 butt pucker moments in there 

[Raux]

I think what got me the most.. as in amazing... is where he would lose the front end and recover and never lose speed. i mean i've heard of people recovering from losing the front tire, but this guy looked like he did it all the time on purpose.