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[DevilsBride]

My husband and his friends has been at the Toskana in September and here is a nice video about the trip   hope you enjoy it !

 

[Favs]

^{Nice no, very nice.  I enjoyed the movie a lot.}

[dablik]

Great video, will watch that again 

[jiff]

........hate to be a dissenter.........but I really didn't enjoy that vid........

the shooter (the devil?) didn't seem to me in harmony with what I'd regard as the sensible - pleasurable even - way to ride in a group.....
It felt as if he wanted to be / considered himself faster than everyone else, always seeming to want to overtake, pressure the rider in front, always agitating to hustle. Numerous sequences where, riding unfeasibly close (& too close for me), he clearly wasn't going to be able to pass, but whereas the guy in front was moving swiftly and relatively smoothly, the shooter seemed to be twitching and leaning this way and that......feeling v.unstable. It seemed ill judged & too frenzied to be fun.....maybe his pals are used to that sort of behaviour, - but we didn't see any footage of anyone else at-it in anything like that way............
No offence intended, maybe I'm just old & slow, but glad I wasn't in on that one.....

.........Jiff.

[masterbrewer]

 

[TDMick]

........hate to be a dissenter.........but I really didn't enjoy that vid........

the shooter (the devil?) didn't seem to me in harmony with what I'd regard as the sensible - pleasurable even - way to ride in a group.....
It felt as if he wanted to be / considered himself faster than everyone else, always seeming to want to overtake, pressure the rider in front, always agitating to hustle. Numerous sequences where, riding unfeasibly close (& too close for me), he clearly wasn't going to be able to pass, but whereas the guy in front was moving swiftly and relatively smoothly, the shooter seemed to be twitching and leaning this way and that......feeling v.unstable. It seemed ill judged & too frenzied to be fun.....maybe his pals are used to that sort of behaviour, - but we didn't see any footage of anyone else at-it in anything like that way............
No offence intended, maybe I'm just old & slow, but glad I wasn't in on that one.....

.........Jiff.

Don't think the rider was Twin devil, he rides a TDM. Don't think that bike was a 900.

See what you mean though.

Edited by TDMick, 14 December 2013 - 12:18 am.

[jiff]

Don't think the rider was Twin devil, he rides a TDM. Don't think that bike was a 900.
See what you mean though.

........I presumed that, given that the thread was posted by 'DevilsBride'......re : her husbands trip, that it was himself who maybe was the shooter........maybe not so......
.......similarly my (maybe imprecise) impression of the bikes on the trip, was that they were all TDMs, other than the orange vStrom
.......and just to top-off any misunderstanding.......not sure who 'Twin devil' is, and whether I might have been thought to be referring to him
......sorry, didn't mean to cause confusion........but other sentiments still hold

Jiff.

[TDMick]

Twin devil rides a Black 900. He's the leftmost bike in the lineup at 0.30 secs.

The camera bike has a very small screen and hand-guards that only attach at the inner end. KTM?

 

 

I think the rider might be a bit preoccupied with the filming, that might have compromised his riding style?

[jiff]

Twin devil rides a Black 900. He's the leftmost bike in the lineup at 0.30 secs.
The camera bike has a very small screen and hand-guards that only attach at the inner end. KTM?
 
 
I think the rider might be a bit preoccupied with the filming, that might have compromised his riding style?

..........Hmmmm!.........well given that most of the footage appears to be shot by a helmet-cam, the idea that his head movements are predicated on what he wants to capture I feel it rather enhances my point.... what!......he's not even concentrating on riding!.....well, I exaggerate just a bit!
Anyway-up, nuff said.......just made me feel v.uncomfortable, & in this case I'm prepared (though embarrassed) to come over
all po- faced!

........Jiff

[Rallyist]

The majority of the vid was I think, shot by the SV rider with about a minutes worth of footage from a TDM and a Beemer, the main rider in my opinion is reminiscent of a Scud missile that will suddenly deviate from its course, whether this was caused by impatience or a desire to get close up footage is debatable, various overtakes were unplanned and with little concern of the person being passed, not a rider I would be happy to ride with on this showing.

Saying that the views etc were superb and does do justice to the scenery, summer is a long way off at the moment.

[TDMick]

Oh I nearly forgot about the roads. They are stunning.

[DevilsBride]

I need time to find the right words 

 

It`s not forbidden to have a different opinion 

 

Mick is right...it`s not always the Devil...most of the time it`s DirtyLobo on his Suzuki V-Strom 1000...I don`t like it when he turns his head to the side, but he wants to show the rider in front of him ...these movements make me seasick 

They had three different cams on different bikes.

 

I am of the same opinion about the distances between the riders, but they know each other very well and normally they ride like a water ballet totally synchronous.

This year they had two new riders and that`s why it looks not harmonious.

 

Now I hope my english is not crazy and every question has been answered 

 

Greetings from Vienna

DevilsBride  

[sidestand]

Nice scenery, but I wouldn't want to be riding with that group of riders - the bloke filming is a liability - and some of the others aren't much better

[DevilsBride]

^{Nice no, very nice.  I enjoyed the movie a lot.}

 

My husband and his friends has been at the Toskana in September and here is a nice video about the trip   hope you enjoy it !

 

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=5X2guczR3l0

Sorry correction: Not Toskana - they have been in South Tyrol driving across the Dolomites    I`m so silly