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Old February 27th, 2014, 05:45 PM   #43
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Name: Jim
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Originally Posted by alex.s View Post
i was referring to my 600 which is just shy of 450 (its from 1992) but 100 lbs shouldn't make that much of a difference. if anything i would trust the bigger bike to stay on the ground. maybe you have never had a sliding wheel catch the tiger teeth and flip the bike after a lowside? i have seen highsides turn into lowsides and lowsides turn into highsides. you can't predict what a bike sliding on its side or upside down is going to do. sure you can take a guess that if you drop the bike going 35, its probably not enough force to flip the bike very much.
100 lbs. is huge. I'll crash a 250 lbs. bike over a 350 or 450 lbs bike all day long.
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