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fzr_400
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PostPosted: 11:52 - 10 Jun 2007    Post subject: First off's Reply with quote

I thought i may start a thread about your first off's:

I had my first off on my motorhispania rx50 exactly 1 month after getting it when a really nice person decided to come down a 30mph residential road at 50 and not see me and go straight into me, i luckly saw what was gonna happen and jumped off the bike, needless to say if i had stayed on i would of been dead as my bike was spun round 360 degrees and my head would of been in the door of a ford ka Rolling Eyes only a women gets out of her alfa romeo that hit me and says to her husband i will see you at home and walks off, now they lived 3 miles away from my accident so she was obviously driving and he took the flack, i got there boy who was with them (who went to my school a year below) to walk my bike home with me as it was only round the corner from mine, and the biggest cheek of it was that the bloke checked his car first, he had written my bike off and only scuffed his front bumper Evil or Very Mad , i came away with bruising or so i thought which was actually a cracked rib touching my lung and still is.
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PostPosted: 12:11 - 10 Jun 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

Riding home at 1am during December, Cold/Icey/Gritty road.

Coming down a road at just under 35mph, when a taxi pulls right out in front of me (about 10m ahead)

I lose the front end on the NSR and high side it. Miss the taxi as i go sliding down the road, sparks everywhere and i just hear these gasps over the noise of the bike.

Bike slides away from me, i get up straightaway, vividly remember the adrenaline rush from it being totally immense. Instantly had the urge to want to play out the scene again, sounds stupid now.

I get mobbed by people just coming out the Dancing. Asking if I'm OK, I say I'm fine. Taxi drives off Rolling Eyes

Go to pick up the bike, and ride off, but everyone stops me and says "Your in shock, your in shock, stay here a moment"

So had a cigarette before i headed off again. For limited safety gear on, i say getting away with a couple of grazes was pretty good.
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PostPosted: 12:37 - 10 Jun 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

FIRE_NSR wrote:

I lose the front end on the NSR and high side it.


do you mean low side??
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PostPosted: 12:42 - 10 Jun 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

Riding my Tomos 50 on a wet, gravelly single tracker. Narrow chinese tyres and going far too fast for the corner. Centrestand touched down, back wheel lifted, down I went.

Stood up, brushed the dirt off my wax jacket, swore about the hole in my oilskins then picked up the bike (which was still running) and carried on my way.
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PostPosted: 12:42 - 10 Jun 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

aaron0288 wrote:

do you mean low side??

Funnily enough, I'm guessing he means high side.
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PostPosted: 12:56 - 10 Jun 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

pwntifex wrote:
aaron0288 wrote:

do you mean low side??

Funnily enough, I'm guessing he means high side.


if you lose the front end, its a low side
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PostPosted: 13:30 - 10 Jun 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

First(and only so far) off was about a week after passing my test. It was on an off camber roundabout and there was al line of diesel across where I wanted to go. I got the bike as upright as possible and as slow as possible but the front end folded & I low-sided. Luckily only doing about 10mph with an ambulance behind me.

No real injury or damage to bike and the crew of the ambulance said they had just picked up another biker from there that wasn't so lucky (skilled Wink ).
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PostPosted: 13:44 - 10 Jun 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

My first off (apart from dropping at stand still due to loose gravel etc) was on my 3rd bike after about 3-4 years. It was a jinx bike because I had 2 little offs and 1 big-ish.

I think the first was coming out of the work carpark which leads to a small narrow street (dead end at the entrance to the car park) which is smaller again because of cars parked on one side, saw a car in the distance which was going ALOT faster than I thought, so I slammed on the brakes, cold tyres so the front skidded a little and I dropped it at about 2MPH Sad Silly cow just turned around a drove off, not like I would had blamed her anyway, I guess so was scared I would had. Broke the front brake lever too!

Apart from that spell of 3 offs in around 12 months I havent came off since (Over 3 years)
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PostPosted: 14:11 - 10 Jun 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

Not sure if you'd class it as an off, but my first (touch wood) only off was on the way to skegness last year, too much front brake, stoppied then over she went - i forgot to put my feet down Rolling Eyes

It was on my R6 and thanks to the r&g's the only damage was a tiny scuff on the mirror Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 14:22 - 10 Jun 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

aaron0288 wrote:


if you lose the front end, its a low side


Not always, I've seen a tonne of videos of lowsides turning into highsides. Can't really explain it, I'll try and find a vid.

Anyway, my first crash was last year, dark horrible night, about 9pm, was behind a car at about 30 mph, he moved the left side of the road so i presumed he was going left, just as i pulled along side him, he indicates right and knocks me off, i go flying across the bonnet and land in someones garden, my bike was fine apart from a snapped clutch lever (the bike didn't take the impact i did, i hit him diagonally as i tried to avoid him) Wasn't a nice experience. Sad
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PostPosted: 15:02 - 10 Jun 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

erm sometime in feb being nosy and looking around a new housing estate about 10pm. About 15-20mph shift down go to take a corner bike throws me off. Damage to the bike snapped gear shifter and clutch leveler and alot of scratches

i remember it taking me a while to pick my bike up lucky there was no one around to see this.
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PostPosted: 17:02 - 10 Jun 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

JakeSM50 wrote:
aaron0288 wrote:


if you lose the front end, its a low side


Not always, I've seen a tonne of videos of lowsides turning into highsides. Can't really explain it, I'll try and find a vid.


It can either be a low side or a high side, it cant be both. Lose the front and drop the bike and you lowsided. Lose the front/rear and regain grip and the bike snaps back and throws you over the top and its a highside. Its the end result that counts not the lead up. Wink
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PostPosted: 17:08 - 10 Jun 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

Morrisons car park on a honda sfx 50.

I convinced my mate I could do a burnout on his ped.

Well he let me but I got it going and let go of the brake.

I fell of his ped flipped over a barrier in the carpark.

Laughing
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PostPosted: 17:11 - 10 Jun 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

My first off was back when I'd been riding my scooter for about 2 months. It was december time, I was just leaving for work and my dad says to me as I go out "take it easy out there it's icey" I tell him I will and leave.

Now a couple of weeks before hand the council hand painted some lovely yellow lines at the end of a town I pass, they go across the width of the road and there is three of them. Now being a total newb I had no concept that painted lines get very very icey in comparison to the rest of the road.

So as I get to the junction I need to slow for just after these lines, I put my front brake on and the next thing I know I'm sliding on the floor watching my moped go in the other direction, my initial thought was something isn't right here Confused. I think it was the adrenaline or something but the next thing I remember is standing up with the bike facing the direction I was coming from. Didn't hit my head but I'd cut my knees a fair bit.

There was only a couple of scratches and a broken indicator lens, coulda been a lot worse I guess Razz
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