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Yes, there is something called "too comfortable" on a bike, and it is especially likely that something will go wrong if you are a new rider and just starting to get into this comfortable feeling.
It sounds like you are pushing your limits more and more. You managed to do a turn at 75 in a 55 zone once, but what happens when you push through your limits? Low siding or high siding at those speeds might be an accident you don't come back from.
At the end of the day you are responsible for managing your traction limits and trying to optimize your traction on the streets. Chicken strips actually have very little relevance to managing traction, you can be doing everything wrong through a turn and risk low or high siding while still having 3 inch "chicken strips".
Here's a few questions for you to test if you are maybe too comfortable for your own good right now:
- do you know when your suspension is level through the turn? Can you tell when your suspension is bottom or topping out through a fast turn?
- do you know how to react during a rear tire slide? can you trust your right wrist to do the right thing during a slide?
- do you know how to react when there is debris mid turn and the front wheel might lose traction?
- do you know how to tell through steering when the road surface has less then optimal traction? do you know how to maximize traction in these cases when leaned over?
If you can't really answer any of these questions, you should probably slow down and learn a bit more about the finer details of riding before pushing your limits on the streets too much.
It's fine to get familiar with how a motorcycle operates and turns, but it sounds like you are just going faster and faster testing the limits of each and every corner. Not trying to be harsh, but low siding at 75 mph is no joke, and some of us have friends that aren't coming back who will know exactly what I'm talking about.
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