CB1100 meets Buttonwillow

[Rolls_imp]

Rolls, looks more like a Seat Time post to me. Great story and some fantastic pictures. I'm particularly impressed with the one of you and the CB in the right hander. Could it have leaned over any further, I wonder?

Thanks, Cormanus. It did indeed end up more like Seat Time as my keyboard clicked away. I’m neither a writer nor very organized, so as as I started writing, the ride down, which I enjoyed tremendously, took on an outsized part of the story.

The right hander is the very end of the big sweeper at Buttonwillow, called Riverside. I’m a bit wider than intended and pulling it in to close that gap to the apex curbing, where the sweeper decreases in radius. I’m lazy with right handers, consistently bad about bringing my upper body down towards the track, which means the bike has to lean over more than it ideally should.

My foot peg nubs are removed and I’m guessing this is about 115kmph so I’m listening and ready for any scrapes, but my front toe is usually first to warn me as I sometimes lazily let it duck foot outward. I do love the wide bars of the CB11, which give wonderfully precise control and amplify whatever the front tire is trying to tell me in a big curve like this.