Originally Posted by
bwest76
I watched the highlights last night.
brake failure,then jumping off the bike and it bursting into flames.
what a nightmare, I wonder if I would have had the nerve or even time to think about jumping,its making me sweat just thinking about it.
Remembering Spa-Francorchamps:
...“I remember it vividly – the main thing was the daunting speed of the place,” says Parrish, who was riding a year-old ex-Sheene factory RG500. “I remember riding through that long right-hander through the village of Burneville, thinking, ‘Fuck me, if it goes wrong here… this is just lunacy’. That corner was like an enormous Gerrards [at Mallory] – well over 100mph [160kph], but with no run-off whatsoever. Then there was that nasty fourth-gear kink on the Masta straight. That was one of those hold-your-frigging-breath-and-get-through-it corners. I suppose the good thing was there wasn’t a lot of corners to remember because most of the lap was just pinned.”...