a VTR from France
04-30-2008, 07:07 AM
#1
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Location: (city)Toulon, (state)Var, France
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a VTR from France
Hi Everyone !
I'm happy to join this (big) forum on our favourite bike.
As I'm a Frenchie & I didn't come to US since a least 5 years I will have to improve quickly my English to communicate with you. Please forgive my errors (or fix it, it will help me).
I spent 6 months in Indianapolis (at the IUPUI university), 3 months in San Francisco (near palo alto) and 2 months in Chicago. I enjoyed my stay in the USA, but after something like one year I had to go home.
Regarding Super Hawk Forum, I posted some months ago in the Technical thread, but due to my job I didn't post during the 2 last months
To give you a change to excuse myself, I'll post some picture of the south of France, where I like to ride.
Let start with the "Espigoulier", 13km (something like 10miles) of a magic road....
It's so cute... with flowers... and cuuuurrrvesss
(this part was to warm up the tires)
(100m (30 feet) since the last picture, this view has been took by the Espigoulier peak)
(The 3 next pictures are NOT the same curves.... Due to security issues, I didn't take a picture of each curves, but there are 9km of curves like the ones bellow... (5.6 miles) )
I hope you liked. For those who want to see it on Google Earth make a search on Espigoulier (south east of France).
See you soon on SHF
I'm happy to join this (big) forum on our favourite bike.
As I'm a Frenchie & I didn't come to US since a least 5 years I will have to improve quickly my English to communicate with you. Please forgive my errors (or fix it, it will help me).
I spent 6 months in Indianapolis (at the IUPUI university), 3 months in San Francisco (near palo alto) and 2 months in Chicago. I enjoyed my stay in the USA, but after something like one year I had to go home.
Regarding Super Hawk Forum, I posted some months ago in the Technical thread, but due to my job I didn't post during the 2 last months
To give you a change to excuse myself, I'll post some picture of the south of France, where I like to ride.
Let start with the "Espigoulier", 13km (something like 10miles) of a magic road....
It's so cute... with flowers... and cuuuurrrvesss
(this part was to warm up the tires)
(100m (30 feet) since the last picture, this view has been took by the Espigoulier peak)
(The 3 next pictures are NOT the same curves.... Due to security issues, I didn't take a picture of each curves, but there are 9km of curves like the ones bellow... (5.6 miles) )
I hope you liked. For those who want to see it on Google Earth make a search on Espigoulier (south east of France).
See you soon on SHF
04-30-2008, 10:50 AM
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Thanks Guys for your welcome.
I'll post a picture of my SH soon (it's raining... not a good weather to ride & shoot).
To PigWings, are you kinding ??? you have at least 2 feet to stop if you go off road ... ohhh, I miss to tell you something... the Altitude is 726m (2200 feet) the cliff that you can see on the picture has 150 m depth (approx 500 feet)
(the pictures are the south side, on the north side the cliff is between 380 and 500 m depth (1200 to 1640 feet))
To Death Cattle, if you make a trip in the south-east of france (Bouches du Rhone or Var or Alpes Maritimes states) you will find roads better than this one
. Tell me when you will be here & where you will go and I'll send you some interessing roads to visit
I'll post a picture of my SH soon (it's raining... not a good weather to ride & shoot).
To PigWings, are you kinding ??? you have at least 2 feet to stop if you go off road ... ohhh, I miss to tell you something... the Altitude is 726m (2200 feet) the cliff that you can see on the picture has 150 m depth (approx 500 feet)
(the pictures are the south side, on the north side the cliff is between 380 and 500 m depth (1200 to 1640 feet))
To Death Cattle, if you make a trip in the south-east of france (Bouches du Rhone or Var or Alpes Maritimes states) you will find roads better than this one
. Tell me when you will be here & where you will go and I'll send you some interessing roads to visit
04-30-2008, 01:35 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: France
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Salut copaing !
Your blue VTR, visible on your profile, with MIG hi-mount is beautifull... like mine !
Thanks for the pics, I will try to find this road during my next trip from south-west to south-east, planed in june
(note: is far easy to do west to east trip in France than in the US 
)
The south of France is full of little twisties roads, I ride on many roads in the alps, the french riviera and the Pyrenean, as much pleasant as the ones in JM_13 pics! French road is a marvellous playground for sport V-twin !
Your blue VTR, visible on your profile, with MIG hi-mount is beautifull... like mine !
Thanks for the pics, I will try to find this road during my next trip from south-west to south-east, planed in june
(note: is far easy to do west to east trip in France than in the US )The south of France is full of little twisties roads, I ride on many roads in the alps, the french riviera and the Pyrenean, as much pleasant as the ones in JM_13 pics! French road is a marvellous playground for sport V-twin !
Last edited by kwad9; 04-30-2008 at 01:40 PM.
04-30-2008, 03:36 PM
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Bonjour mes ame! Thats all the French I know but one of my kids is a Francofile and visited last year. I get sick thinking about all the roads in Europe i'll probaly will nebver see let alone ride. You been to the IOM?
As you were in Chicago you may speak a little Chacaga and know how bad our roads are here. If your ever back, try farther north in Wisconsin.
Here is a relatively old shot of me about 3 months pregnant on Lake Geneva WI. The VFRs next to me are riding buds not mine. The next funny shot is of me an my VTR also in the hinterlands of WI. And for our US members, an order of cheeseballs and a brat for who can "name this track" in the last pic.
As you were in Chicago you may speak a little Chacaga and know how bad our roads are here. If your ever back, try farther north in Wisconsin.
Here is a relatively old shot of me about 3 months pregnant on Lake Geneva WI. The VFRs next to me are riding buds not mine. The next funny shot is of me an my VTR also in the hinterlands of WI. And for our US members, an order of cheeseballs and a brat for who can "name this track" in the last pic.
05-01-2008, 01:54 AM
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)I've done some changes on my VTR, know I'm using a yosh titanium exhaust line & cans.
I didn't know that MIG exported to the US (MIG was a french exhaust company, it closed 5 or 6 years ago)
To Rk1, Ok Brigitte bardot WAS a beautiful girl... I wrote "WAS" !!!
have you seen her recently ?
to Skokievtr, I'm really surprised that your children learns French, It's difficult to learn with a lot of exceptions & tenses. (In fact, 75% of the french people use 10% of the french language...)
Thin about encouaging him, it will be helpful if he wants to visit the "true" france (I mean not the riviera or Paris)..
I hate the riviera and the big french town, people are stressed, not welcoming, not smilling... if you go in the small towns it's totally different, but in small town generally the residents & the merchants do not speak English.
Regarding the roads in the US, I saw (only in Indiana, Illinois and Ca) that
the roads have not a good surface. But I saw a little part of the US road...
Kwad9, you mentionned that you will be there in june. I have to warn you : Since Sarkozy is president the road police has been enforced. We call them the MIB : Men in Blue, they use embedded speed radars & permanent speed radars. Generally they are not on the twisted roads, but they work on secondary roads & highways.
Depending of the infraction you may have a simple ticket (from 90 to 360 euros).... up to lost your bike (extreme situation, but 2 weeks ago a guy has been took at 254km/h on a 90km/h road (160 mph on a 55 mph road), he losts his bike, his driving license and he will have 2 months in jail..)
So, if you want to play, play only in a twisted section never on highway or straigth line)
Last edited by JM_13; 05-01-2008 at 02:04 AM. Reason: I forgot something about the police...
JM_13... Si j'écris en anglais c'est juste par respect pour les autres membres du SHF, J'habite dans le sud ouest, et je suis originaire du sud est
05-01-2008, 03:52 AM
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05-01-2008, 06:29 AM
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With you living in Indianapolis, you must have really craved the roads in France compaired to Indiana roads (straight and flat.) What did you study at IUPUI. They have an awesome natatorium. I got the chance to swim there when I was in college.
05-02-2008, 12:56 AM
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Hi Guy,
Regarding the IUPUI, I made an internship at the CFD lab (Computational Fluid Departement... a small lab in the basement )
I liked the IUPUI campus, it is very different than French universities (dirt, olds...)
Regarding the indiana roads as you wrote, Indiana has only straight, flat and with a bad surface roads ... but I really liked to try the colorado roads
This week end, we organize the annual VTR meet in france (VTRmag siteweb annual meeting, vtrfirestorm.free.fr/forum). I'll take some pictures for you (If I well remember, we will be 35 or 40 VTRs)
Regarding the IUPUI, I made an internship at the CFD lab (Computational Fluid Departement... a small lab in the basement
)I liked the IUPUI campus, it is very different than French universities (dirt, olds...)
Regarding the indiana roads as you wrote, Indiana has only straight, flat and with a bad surface roads ... but I really liked to try the colorado roads
This week end, we organize the annual VTR meet in france (VTRmag siteweb annual meeting, vtrfirestorm.free.fr/forum). I'll take some pictures for you (If I well remember, we will be 35 or 40 VTRs)
05-02-2008, 03:12 AM
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The roads south of Indy down around Nashville, IN are some amazing roads. No high speed curves, but ALOT of elevation changes and tight curves. I'm looking forward to getting my bike up in that area.
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