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- A little Ari versus Zack showdown, what do you think?
You feeling confident?
- [Ari] Not really no, it's been a while
since I've ridden on track in anger,
it's been even longer since I've ridden a liter bike.
- [Narrator] How long has it been since you rode
around a track that you've never seen,
that's probably dirty and dusty, and next to a free-way,
and not very long, and pretty bumpy?
- [Ari] I can't actually remember.
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- Alright, let's see where this track goes.
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- Get that water potrol.
(laughter from both racers)
(grunt)
- Yeah, get on the freight son!
Back end's dancing around.
- Man the steering control on this bike is so good, so good.
I mean, part of the reason we picked it
is it's got all the electronics and they all work well
because just having electronics doesn't mean
they're actually going to function as they're intended.
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- This bike came out in 2015
so it's not the latest and greatest,
but the truth is, it's a state of the art bike,
with suspension that adjusts itself while you ride.
And slide control and traction control
and ABS and tons of data acquisition,
it's a pretty bad ass bike.
We almost ran out of track.
- Okay, it's officially warmed up to throw down.
Brosefsky?
- I've got like less than half a dozen laps under my belt,
yeah I should be fine.
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So start finish is up there by the tires, but we should
let's start back here.
A flying lap is a traditional way
but I like getting the race start
because then you get the full affect.
- The full affect.
I'm not going to use launch control,
I'm just going to use wheelie control
because it's the bomb diggity.
- Yep, although these things are hard to launch as is.
- Yeah, you got to slip the clutch
for half the straight away.
So I'll remain in stall,
I let you go and then like
ten- twenty seconds later I'm going to go.
- Okay that's fair, yeah,
we don't want to get in each other's way.
So this is it?
- This is it.
- Lay down a lap.
Put the smack down for all of motorcycling.
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- There he goes, there he goes.
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- Yeah.
Horse power. Whoooooooo.
- Dookie.
See if I can catch that Ari Henning.
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Skatin the back and around.
Alright, alright, alright.
Slow in, fast fast.
Come on. Come on.
Clipped the curb.
- I got no reference points here.
That's the tricky thing,
you get like a little bit of confidence
and so you dial up the speed
and everything changes.
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- Get over on the side of the tire.
Flashed apex.
Out to the curb. Whooo.
Fast left hander here.
Peeling through, ohh real bumpy.
Oh boy.
That was, I don't know.
That was not my best effort.
I definitely only got one clean lap
but I don't want to like pre-excuse anything.
But man that's a lot of fun.
I could keep doing that all day.
Nothing like unleashing all that horse power
and also it makes it like extra exciting
because you don't
actually know where you're going yet.
- Especially that horseshoe at the back side of the..
Agreed?
Like on the brakes and it's just like parking lot wide
and you're like, I don't know where I'm going.
- No idea where to go.
- How do you think you did?
- Not my finest work but whatever,
a good representation of what I can do
right off the quick draw.
- Yeah agreed.
I feel like I could hit the rev loader a couple times,
lines aren't totally perfect,
but I think a good representation of
what this bike can do in the hands of
a life long motorcyclist even if we're not,
"pro level" or whatever.
- Yeah, definitely not pro level.
Let's go check the times.
- Okay.
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- Okay so in an unbelievable twist of fate
we ran out of time.
- That never happens.
- Never happens on Throttle Out.
But we were able to capture a bunch
of what we hope was exciting motorcycle riding today.
And we did get lap times.
- Got this telegram in from the timing office,
it's going to tell us who went faster.
- That's right.
- Drum roll.
- Now we find out who's mom gets to be proudest today.
- Oh it's all folded up.
Zack's lap is one point two mile circuit at a 58.19.
Ari at a dogged 58.6.
- Half a second.
- I saw that coming.
- It's always within a half a second.
- Well congrats.
You had your Wheaties this morning huh?
- I did (laughs)
- Well cool, now we've got a benchmark.
We didn't get to drive cars today,
the sun is setting.
But tomorrow, we're going to hit them four wheelers hard.
And we're going to try and go faster than this.
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