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Old 19th June 2014, 03:29 PM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YUB...layer_embedded

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Old 19th June 2014, 03:51 PM
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Have you seen this R8 v Suzuki & Kawasaki?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lETA8Y4696g
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Old 19th June 2014, 04:16 PM
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well blow me away, a car that thinks its a motorbike.
he is giving Eastern europeans a bad name driving like that.
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Old 19th June 2014, 04:46 PM
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well blow me away, a car that thinks its a motorbike.
he is giving Eastern europeans a bad name driving like that.
I did wonder just how wide an M3 was watching that!
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Old 19th June 2014, 04:55 PM
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The second biker had far more balls than the R8 driver, who didn't really push it in the bends, where he should have had a real advantage, and didn't really take it..

I used to have great fun with bikers on Snake Pass on the way back from meetings in Sheffield in the Coupe, but I don't do that any more, of course...
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Old 19th June 2014, 05:16 PM
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Obviously we would never condone this behaviour but appreciate how much bloody good fun it looks
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Old 20th June 2014, 08:41 AM
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I miss my youth.


Still one of the better ones I think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jt5dj-keAs
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Old 29th August 2014, 11:58 PM
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I live for these types of video's, there is nothing nicer than seeing a person behind the wheel of a decent powered car who can really drive. I don't know how many of you have seen it, but here if England in about 2008 we had the 92 minute DVD release called Stupid Riding, where an Evo 8 340 MR but tuned was playing on the b roads with GSX1000 and boy did they play well, there were endless b road action where the Evo was seen keeping up with the bike at 140 mph quite happily... and they even did one clip where the Evo was doing 181 mph!!! I've done 173.4 mph in my Evo 9 at 2am once with a mate of mine in his Evo 6 running from a traffic car out of Bodmin on the A30 and believe me when I tell you that those sorts of speeds you need very big balls!

However the footage after only three days had such bad press that it was pulled from the shelves and even You tube had to take it town whilst they were trying to track down the drivers of the released film. But obviously over time it's crept back onto the ole You Tube and once again is there for all to see! Having owned a fast Evo 9 tuned to 448 bhp everything I've seen on the Video I've done at night, just never in the day time when other Non Evo were out on the road as well! But I can appreciate the effort it takes to drive this well and not crash

My favourite part was section 7 and section 9 in the film... Here is the start of section 7 simply entitled "Sunday Driving!"

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Old 30th August 2014, 02:41 AM
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Cal me old and boring, but I am still alive, which is probably more than can be said for most of the drivers in these videos.

I cannot abide driving like this on public roads, save it for the freakin' racetrack where you can't kill innocent bystanders so easily.

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Old 30th August 2014, 11:18 AM
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Cal me old and boring, but I am still alive, which is probably more than can be said for most of the drivers in these videos.

I cannot abide driving like this on public roads, save it for the freakin' racetrack where you can't kill innocent bystanders so easily.

+1 sarg. Save it for the racetrack.
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