oo7
Race Dog
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- Aug 14, 2007
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- Location
- Los Angeles, USA
- Bike
- BMW R1200GS Adventure
I had the honour and privilige to swap bikes with Brakenjan yesterday during a ride in the mountains / plantations above Kleinmond (unfortunately no pics).
He took the BMX for a bit when I took his eks aar. Or rather the eks aar 'took' me. Without vaseline. :biggrin: It was my first time on the legendary (or should I say "iconic"?) Honda XR650 and man, that monster is mental!!
You cannot compare the torque on the two machines and the accelleration on the Honda is just scary - especially on loose pebbles I had to turn his ear back time and again as the backwheel was just snaking too much. In corners if you just think about opening up - powerslide here I come.
So one should rather not compare the BMX with the eks aar on a performance basis only, IMHO. I would imagine its more fair to get the HP2 and the XR up against each other. And even then I am afraid that the dude on the HP2 would have to know his story . . .
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He took the BMX for a bit when I took his eks aar. Or rather the eks aar 'took' me. Without vaseline. :biggrin: It was my first time on the legendary (or should I say "iconic"?) Honda XR650 and man, that monster is mental!!
You cannot compare the torque on the two machines and the accelleration on the Honda is just scary - especially on loose pebbles I had to turn his ear back time and again as the backwheel was just snaking too much. In corners if you just think about opening up - powerslide here I come.
So one should rather not compare the BMX with the eks aar on a performance basis only, IMHO. I would imagine its more fair to get the HP2 and the XR up against each other. And even then I am afraid that the dude on the HP2 would have to know his story . . .
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