Former MotoGP World Champion Nicky Hayden might be the last and best American motorbike hero.
Nicky Hayden tucks into a 350-pound Honda RC211V motorcycle so tightly it’s hard to tell where the machine stops and the man begins. With the finger dexterity of a orchestral violinist‚ he squeezes his brakes at just the precise amount and dives into the 10-story, left-right chicane drop at the turn 8 Corkscrew at Laguna Seca.
His specialized rubber tires make contact with the track with just the width of a credit card as he speeds down the hill at almost 100 miles per hour. He flies out of the Corkscrew, banks long and left along the Rainey turn, navigates a short right at 10, brakes hard into the final turn, cranks back on the throttle and blurs across the finish line with no one in front of him – as was the case the entire race.
But that was 2005. Hayden, now 30, says that first of two consecutive wins on his home country circuit was poetry.
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