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fuzz World Chat Champion
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Posted: 14:28 - 22 Jun 2004 Post subject: My first one! |
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Riding to work this morning, I decided to take a different route. I reached a known and particularly nasty corner a little too fast and ended up running wide on the exit into the oncoming traffic. First reaction, front brake, and in doing so lost the front end. The bike went one way, I went the other and now I'm left with a £250 repair bill, 2 scrapped knees and hurt pride.
Had there have been no oncoming traffic, I would have been fine. Would I have been better usin the rear brake, or would the back end have gone just the same and maybe have been worse?
The worst thing is, the right hand side fairing was damaged when I bought it, but it's the left side that took the impact Sods Law again! |
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dandit Nearly there...
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G The Voice of Reason
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Posted: 14:36 - 22 Jun 2004 Post subject: Re: My first one! |
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Were the roads wet?
Whatever it's not a good idea to use the front brake while leant over until you know quite well how a bike 'feels'.
In 97% of situatuions where people panic brake... if you can use the brake then you also have a lot more grip left to lean. The tyre couldn't take it this time, but it would be much more likely to be able to lean further.
Unless bits of your bike are already on the ground then the bike will always be able to lean more if it can handle any braking. The braking 'steals' more of the traction than leaning more would do.
Gentle rear brake can help, but it's probably best just to lean.
The main problem is overcoming your 'survival reaction' that links braking to safety.
Got leathers / knee sliders?
If not get some ... then go to a local empty roundabout and practice getting your knee down. This should give you and idea of how far you can lean and will give you confidence to lean a lot more.
Also, if you're not aware of countersteering, then do a search on here. |
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sv_cath Could Be A Chat Bot
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badlydamaged Spanner Monkey
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Posted: 15:31 - 22 Jun 2004 Post subject: |
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Ouch, glad to here you are more or less OK and the bike isn't too bad. ____________________ My bike: 1988 Kawasaki KH100 Status: Polluting Devon with two stroke smog and noise pollution!
"Its not your engine size that matters!, It's what you do with it that counts"
Add me to MSN if you want! badlydamaged@hotmail.com. |
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Frost World Chat Champion
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fuzz World Chat Champion
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Posted: 18:39 - 22 Jun 2004 Post subject: |
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Thanks for all the responses . Once the bikes patched up I'll go out and try the roundabout thing, oh, and maybe fit crash bungs!
I don't think I panicked, but as I've only been riding about 5 weeks, I think it's just lack of experience.
We all have to fall off sometime, right?
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 19 years, 315 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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