My 1991 FJ1200

[1tinindian]

Just a short, boring look at the Iowa countryside.


FJ1200 ride in Iowa

[Marsh White]

Cool camera angle!  But I must say - if you run that wide in the turns (or in the other lane) at the West Coast Rally you would get hit by a logging truck...

[1tinindian]

You have to remember that this is farm country, and tractors pulling wagons around curves drag all kinds of dirt and rocks onto the road making knee-draggin next to impossible.
I'm no Eddie Lawson either, just a guy that likes being on two wheels. I wasn't trying to brag on my skill, or lack there of.

[carsick]

Marsh, he was practicing passing, no need to have actual vehicles, safer that way. I shudder to think what my riding would look like on camera. I prefer to be a legend in my own mind!
Doug

[Dan Filetti]

I think you may have found all 5 turns in IA!.  Thanks for the footage.  I know that part of the word fairly well as I've done RAGBRAI twice, in ('94 and in '97).  Seems it has not changed much!

To Marsh's point, it did make me cringe, to see you cross that center line over and over again.  I actually showed my kids as an example of something to never do -sorry.  I know this is unsolicited, but if I were you I'd work on saying between the lines on you side of the road.  It's a skill that will pay off in spades when you get to twistier roads.  -end rant.

That is nice footage, where did you mount the camera?

Cheers!

Dan

[1tinindian]

Wow, pretty tough critics here, OK.
Thanks for the input guys, and in my own defence, that first curve where I crossed over, I hit a large patch of gravel that sent me across the line, I didn't much care for it myself.
The second time, even though the camera angle doesn't show it, I can see around the curve and down the road.
This road is a short paved section headed out in the country and a very lightly traveled road. Where the video starts, is where the pavement ends and turns to gravel.

There's no argument against sloppy skills, but it's not as bad as you may think, out here in gods' country!

Leon

[1tinindian]

That is nice footage, where did you mount the camera?

Cheers!

Dan

Very crude, just something I had laying around and bolted it on the bike!

[Dan Filetti]

How very Kiwi of you... Nice work. 

BTW, I was not trying to give you a hard time Leon, it's just a buddy of a buddy of mine met his maker embedded in the grill of a Dodge van.  I had met the guy, he had kids, and then he just died due to carelessness.  He went wide in a blind corner and clipped the oncoming van.  I heard about it a couple of days after it happened.  I was told that the van driver, who's only crime was being there, minding his own business, wouldn't stop crying.  It had an impact on me.  So I ranted when I saw your clip.  Nothing personal.

Lately, I've been practicing riding ~12 inches to the left of the line on the side of the road. Pretend the road is only a foot wide.  On a twisty road, it's harder than it seems.  I have not yet perfected it.

Again, nice work on the camera mount.

Peace.

Dan

[carsick]

Those roads must be some smooth to allow a mount like that! I would need to have 3 mounting points here if I wanted the camera to come back. +1 on what Dan said, I've been on the wrong side of the line at night in a corner with a tractor trailer coming at me and I have a bit of a reaction whenever I see any "trespassing". We like you and want to keep you.
Doug

[big daddy]

Just a short, boring look at the Iowa countryside.


FJ1200 ride in Iowa

great thanks for the view bro keep it on two