Liberty review

[Sarge]

Not a test drive style review tho. I ride a bike most of the time (1997 Honda Magna). I'm not a Chris Carr or Wayne Rainey but I'm decent in the twisties as long as I have been over it a few times first. Too many memories of "learning" a road at speed from earlier times to try it any more. Any way...

Cruising down one of my favorite little roads, lots of little twisties rated at 15-30 (yellow signs). I can usually run them from 2 to 3 times that. No mirrors so I look behind me a lot. Headed into a curve I see a Liberty coming up behind me. I'm not really pushing yet, still heating the tires up. Dude gets within 3 car lengths and stays there. Even in some decent curves. Start pushing and he hangs in there for the most part, just dropping on some real wicked ones. Finally warmed up and cooking....he starts to drop on the curves but not real bad. He'll catch up in the straights cause I don't push there. Went on for a while until I hi my favorite...an S curve followed by a descending, decreasing radius turn to the left of about 100 degrees. He hammered the brakes when he saw it and I didn't see him any more. Very surprising in all hoesty....most vehicles don't hang with bikes on these roads.

Sarge

 

[2drezq]

June of '81 it was, I and my new bride were running the Cascades on a Honda 900. Fully loaded for camping out, so I didn't push real hard. In some real twisties when I spot an Audi Fox coming up hard on my tail. I pushed harder, until I was trailing sparks off the pegs hanging off in the hard corners. The guy stuck to my butt like a pimple. I slowed to 75 on a short straight and the Audi blew by me like he'd just met my mother-in-law. Headed into the next curve when he dissappeared around the 2nd right-hander. Never saw him again, but I haven't been to the pearly gates yet, either.

I know, nothing to do with Jeeps at all, I just wanted to tell the story, 'cause I ain't thought of that guy in twenty years.

If I ever run those roads again it'll be in a Grand Cherokee, and MUCH slower.

 

[REDXJ4FUN]

That reminds me of a viper write up years ago. the tester was crusin along when a sport bike came up on him and passed him so he siad ok lets play. after about 15 miles of very hard running the viper was till on the bikes tail so the rider pulled over and flaged the viper over and just sat there looking at the car say holy sh!t i can not belive that car hung with me. i know has nothing to do with jeeps either

 

[Sarge]

Yep, Vipers and a few others can hang with no real problems. In the exotics an F1 out-performs the bikes due to aerodynamics. Still riding in a cage tho.

Sarge

 

[2drezq]

Different strokes, I guess. Most sports/sedans with good suspension/tires will outperform even a good cycle in high speed cornering (you can drift four wheels, two is another story) but almost nothing on the street can change velocity so quickly.