We definitely are here in Austria! Although you shouldn't forget that for these kinds of roads I need to travel for a bit as well ;)

thanks for watching & commenting :)

That would be completely awesome :) Thanks, Salt!

thanks man

like an accident the are kinda disgusting but you can't take your eyes off at the same time right? ;)

thank you very much, Adam! What an epic comment! :)

I've come back 9 years later, a changed man. I can no longer ride due to a bike crash (broken back and paralysed arm), but I still come back to this video and remember the good times I had when I rode my own 500. I still get goosebumps when I listen to the engine, and I remember all the vibrations, the way it rode, the sensation of f it all like muscle memory. So thank you Schaaf, for reminding me of the good times, and I hope you carry on enjoying your own good times.

+Petar Boshnakov thanks Petar! Take a look at my newer RAW uploads to see how my riding has improved since then!

nice! keeping a bike in the family is always a smart move ;)

thanks a lot!! :),

thanks a lot, William!

danke für das Vertrauen!! ^^

Nikel87 moving to Italy is a great idea but getting a slower bike not so much ;)

With a slow bike you can concentrate on the corners instead off the gas. Anyway. Great video. Looks so much fun.

Nikel87 you can concentrate on the corners on every bike. You just need to use your right hand sensibly and don't pull on the throttle like an utter maniac. I'd choose a small bike because it's more agile and easier to flick around. Not because it's slower. Something like a BMW S1000RR could still be the quickest bike on a road like the shown Passo Pramollo. The problem is just that too many big-bike riders never learned how to ride properly because riding a powerful machine on a PUBLIC ROAD (not talking about the racetrack) doesn't teach you anything. You don't even need to change gears on a liter bike. On a big bike you simply accelerate hard after you fucked up your line going through a corner. You can't do that on a CB500. If you want to ride quick on a weak bike you simply have to learn how to ride a quick and safe line, how to change gears quickly, how to ride with momentum instead of breaking hard. And in the end that's how you should ride every bike. I'm saying that you'll learn most and best on a small and weak bike. But if you want to go REAL fast then you also need a powerful bike. The CB is too weak.

I think we share the same thought's. I have two pretty fast bikes. My Zx6r and my Husqvarna 500 Supermotard. The zx6 is great on trackdays but it got stiff springs that doesn't really work on bumpy roads. The Husqvarna is superlight but got so much power that it's kinda insane to drive anywhere. I remember a couple of years ago when I was doing some commercial work on 125cc scooters with hangers on. The last day we took the hangers off and rode the shit out of these slow crapbikes. Scraped everywhere, no power so we just launched into the corners hoping we would survive. We weren't going any fast but with no handling, no brakes and no ground clearance. It felt like 200.

Nikel87 haha yea, the CB500 starts wobbling heavily in corners faster than 120kph. I always feel like Guy Martin doing 300+ on the Isle Of Man hahaha

awesome! Thanks a lot, man!!

thanks for watching!

*Kinder, guckt her!* Der Mensch hier hat sicher *TOTAL* viel Ahnung vom Mopedfahren! Wie treffend und beinhart-präzise er meinen "immer" überforderten Fahrstil "entschlüsselt" hat! Wow! Aber immerhin hat er mich darauf hingewiesen, dass Motorrad fahren gefährlich ist. *Das wusste ich bis dato nicht, ECHT NICHT!!* Danke vielmals für die Aufklärung! Ein wahrer Held bist du! Aber ich nehm's dir dafür dann auch nicht übel, wenn du dann vor meinem Grab stehst und vor trauernder Menge verkünden darfst: "NA?! Ich hab's euch doch gesagt, dass das nicht lange gut gehen wird!!" Dann hast du endlich deine Genugtuung.

thank you very much!! :)

Grazie! ;)

Thanks

thanks a lot, much appreciated!!

thank you!!

it is! Thanks!

thank you! You definitely should!

thanks!

thanks a lot, mate! Where do you live? 3400 sounds like a lot of money for a CB500 ;)

From Calgary Alberta, Canada. what did you pay for yours? the model i'm looking at is a 2002

hopstir69 €1500 with 36.000km on the clock. Should've paid 1100-1200 though. But I was young and dumb back in the days ;) But of course mine is from 1994 and therefore much older.

thank you, Łukasz Witwicki !!!

laughter? Good for you ;) I kinda shat my pants when it happened but felt like the biggest hero at the same time. Very weird feeling. But definitely awesome as well.

It was the "Achievement unlocked" that made me laugh not the riding, I'll have to watch it again to see what you did. Because you distracted me with gamer stuff.

thanks, Javier!

You got that right, I didn't know these roads at all. This run was my third one. I did one "test-run" to check for hazards etc. I wanted to film the second run already but my GoPro froze right in the middle of the road. So I had to do it a third time. Unfortunately my GoPro froze once more but this time I had to continue with riding since I had a lot of riding left to do on that day. (spent the whole day on unfamiliar roads, riding & exploring is my favorite thing to do :) )

thanks a bunch, Dale!

danke!! Eure auch! :)

great comment, mate!! Thank you very much!

freut mich!! Danke!

;))

thanks for your concern and the nice words, Ian.

thanks a lot, much appreciated!

It was!

thank you!

Hoff ich auch, aber was passiert, dass passiert leider. Danke vielmals!

all good I stopoed riding like that a long time ago

thank you, Allan! :)

thanks a lot, Sam!! :)

indeed

memories like these are the only things keeping me sane through winter times ;)

scraping pegs has to be done with caution, yea

vielen Dank, kat! :)

+LocoJovo thanks a lot! My skills have improved a lot since recording this video! Feel free to check out my more recent RAW uploads!

+Schaaf yes i see, in the last few days i watched a lot of your videos, that cb 500 is beautiful! and you rock!

+LocoJovo thank you very much!

I'm afraid you haven't seen lots of riders then ;)

Viel Spaß!!

Danke!

Stylefile1337 ich hab die CB (leider) ohne Hauptständer gekauft. Die Gefahr besteht also nicht ;)

danke dir vielmals!!

:D :D

Yes, Sir! It will be worth the waiting :)

thanks man!

thanks, dude!

***** I went down the road two times before I recorded the video. Other than that it was my first time on it. No reward without taking risks.

thanks a lot, Toobi! The scraping pipe came unexpected. But at least now I know how the absolute lean limit on the right side feels like on my little Honda ;)

Here here to the little Honda's!! Feeling more confident on the downhill runs by the way. Knowing ones limits is good and so is testing them. Cheers for ya comments mate.

+Állyson Peloggia I hope you didn't get hurt!!

+Schaaf I broke the femur, the right zygomatic and a thumb in hand. My girlfriend had open fracture in the femur, broke the basin, three fingers in the foot, and one in the hand. We're recovering... But 500 have not started to fix. We hit head-on with a bus.

+Állyson Peloggia oh my god! :O A bus? I'm sorry to hear that but you also have to be glad that you're still alive I guess!

ehehe :D thank you!

yea that camper definitely was a proper braking test. Although I was still using only one finger on the brake lever. I'm not strong enough to get the front to lock up using only one finger. So theoretically I had some reserves left lol. Very good observation with the short break in the tunnel. I definitely felt even more confident afterwards so I guess it really did cool me down a bit.

thanks, Turtle!! Hehehe, indeed ;)

yea

trust me I'd love to do these kind of roads on a KTM :) Thanks man!

thanks a lot, Dragon :)) I'm very sorry to hear about your big Duke :/ I definitely hope you can return to the bike as quickly as possible!

thanks a lot, Shawn!! The notes on my tank are my road maps. On these I write down the route for the day. This video was shot during my summer holidays and I wasn't familiar with the places I went to ride so I needed some directions :) If I come across a road like this I usually go for a test-ride without the camera rolling to see if everything is safe and free of hazards. Then I'll do the video run. This run down actually was my third one because my GoPro only recorded half of the run on the previous one. This time the camera didn't make it through the whole road once more but I had no more time to re-do it since I had quite a bit of road to do still ahead of me on that day!

That's cool that you're doing pre-runs... I was thinking that might be what the notes were for. Sorry that your GoPro's giving you problems...

Shawn Smoak not any longer since I bought a 3+ Black Edition a couple of weeks ago ;)

***** unfortunately not :( I live in Vienna, quite a bit off from all the sweet mountains you see in my videos :/

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that is correct

haha I learned this just recently :D That's pretty awesome I guess ^^

Troy Nguyen danke!!

Eduardo Brito thanks man! There are videos of my footpegs on my Facebook page! (link in the description text)

thanks a lot, Scott! Thanks a lot, ***** !

thank you! :)

thanks, Israel! My body doesn't do any work at speeds like this. I'm riding my CB sitting 100% upright, not moving my ass an inch off to either side of the seat.

You may have answered this before but I would like to know what is on the paper that looks to be taped onto the tank area of your bike?

Israel Chavez it's my road map for the whole day of riding!

Hi Eduard! You might want to check out a couple of other videos of mine before you try to advice me on my camera work! Thanks though!

Bei uns solls demnächst auch richtig hässlich werden, wetter-mäßig! Danke dir! :)

Die Schwerkraft ist mein Freund ;)

thank you for watching & commenting! Maybe I will buy a 1200 one day when I get too old and lazy for shifting. Until then I'd rather stay with smaller engines. They are much more fun on public roads!

+Pyllymysli yes I definitely recommend it :D

thanks a lot, mate!! The whole ride went pretty smooth actually. But I did lose my line two times, not on purpose. I'm serious about "responsible speeding" so not being able to keep my safe riding line worries me very much. I thought for quite some time how and if I should upload this. But I need to accept that most of my subs appreciate these rides just like I do. I'll have to accept that I can't please everybody :D

Ride up to the limit but never past it, isn't that what they say...tho its hard to tell were the limit is sometimes ;) That's true tho i cant see how anyone could dislike the REAL riding that you show...

ach, von sau gut bin ich noch weit entfernt ;) Trotzdem danke vielmals, freut mich sehr, sowas zu lesen!!!

Schaaf finde ich schon ;) ich werde in einem monat wiedereinsteigen und wäre glücklich über solche "fahrkünste". nach 2 jahren pause werde ich mich wieder schon langsam rantasten....

paschkaaa klingt nach einem vernünftigen Plan :)

thanks!

thank you so much! :) The front brake did fade quite a bit, yea. But I'm more or less used to that and adapt my riding ^^ The rear one doesn't suffer from fading though since I'm not using it very hard/much anyway. Although I'm slowly starting to change this as well since one day I'll wanna know if a little sliding action is possible or not ^^

thank you!!

... immer gerne! :-)

No and Yes

thank YOU for sharing the story!

Schaaf Yeah it was a bit long sorry. I might manage a ride this week yipeeeeeee !!

Jeremy Markham wish you the best! Don't ever apologize again though for writing long comments :)

Schaaf Many thanks for the that. Stay safe.

thank you! Bridgestone BT45! They don't cope with that too well actually. I even have steelflex brake lines on my CB but the CB wasn't made for this kind of riding. The brakes over-heat rather quickly but usually they keep working well enough for my (low) standards :) But it certainly did happen more than once that I had to take out all my pace because the brakes more or less stopped working because the beating was too much for them.

thank you very much!! :) I simply like calling her "little Honda" :)) My absolute 'weapon of choice' on a road like this would be a properly fast super moto actually :)

thanks a lot mate!! Yes, I only use my index finger for braking. That's why I keep it raised like that, it helps me to get him back to the lever as quickly as possible.

I see :-), cheers mate for the reply.

it was my camera's fault, I used the right cards back then :) Thanks still!!

thanks a lot! I just love the chest POV the most for these onboard rides. I mount the camera onto my helmet whenever I want to pick up the scenery :)

ha ok, thanks for getting back to me. keep up the great Videos :)

thansk a lot! Not at all, I'm riding just above average. Although I'll certainly do track days as soon as I can afford to!

yes I'm using the standard sizes. Thanks btw!

thanks a lot!! :) My best tips for learning to ride properly are the following: - Relax! You need to learn how to stay calm and relaxed if you want to go fast. - Go riding with other bikers who are much more experienced than you. I learned a lot and very fast just from following skilled riders!!

thank you very much! You've seen that right, I don't hang off the bike at all. There's no doubt that riding hang off will always be the quickest way to get you around a corner on tarmac. But it's simply no fun for me on the old CB. Plus keeping a neutral body position allows me to react much quicker to any unpredictable hazard on the road.

Schaaf I know you keep saying you dont need to hang off the bike, but have you tried it? The bike is more stable and, as you said, you can go around the corners quicker... if you "can" go around quicker, then at the same speed, you have more room for error. You have confidence on the bike, so start experimenting.

Nerb1 have you ever tried hang off on a 20 year old $1000 bike? No? Sliding around on the seat gets the CB into hardcore wobble mode. It's no problem with long and wide corners and I do ride hang off in these quite a bit. But with a road like this, where there's nothing else but sharp turns, she gets way to unstable before the turns from all the quick moving around from one side to the other. Her suspension was just not made for riding like that. Plus it's not safer at all. Hang off makes me go around corners faster. It does lower the center of gravity and certainly improves the stability indeed. Once you've gotten down there lol. But still I'd rather ride a corner on a public road with my body upright since this position allows me to react so much quicker to any unexpected hazard on the road. And that's a fact. Hang off looks awesome, feels awesome, is awesome. But not on narrow, public mountain roads with my little Honda. The best would be to slightly move body & butt to the sides in the corners. But no full-blown hang off.