Lay her down...

[TheArchitect]

this happened last night.. my fault. Got squeezed and panicked, got a fist full of brake on damp side edge of a speed bump.

https://i.imgur.com/hQPPZPi.gif

Most notable damage pics below. Other than that there's a scratch on mirror and bar end.

https://i.imgur.com/mlpQKZU.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/UVeTmkQ.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/UyDBaVg.jpg
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[bacon]

Should have gone for the launch instead

Tail sections are usually cheap on most bikes, so it seems you got away rather lucky!

[kramdra]

Why did you brake? You did not get squeezed, just wrong reaction. Could have gone over any part of the speed bump with application of some throttle.


There is an uphill section with 20 or so full width speed bumps.. Cars drive pathetically slow, 10mph over them, painfully slow on the bike. I can quite often be seen sanding on the pegs, full throttle up between cars.

[thx1138]

next time just let off the throttle

[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

Y U Brake!?

End cap can be sorted (About 110 + getting it swapped). Swap the tail for a Chinese one?
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[kramdra]

[Beehive Bedlam]

I would have gone to the left or straight over.

[kgm]

Glad you got away with it, damage doesn't look too bad. Don't know why you went to the offside of the speed bump though. You know what they day about hindsight of course.

[grr666]

Did well not to completely trash the Akra.
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[M.C]

Not seeing the squeezing either , did you panic when you saw the second car (cos it looks like you had room)?

[Azoth]

Maybe it was the psychological effect of being on the side, rather than in the middle, of one of those middle-of-the-lane speed humps in wet conditions. You didn't want to be there. You wanted to be in the middle, but felt it was too late to change your line once you saw the second car. Momentarily, you believed that you had no traction, and that was enough. Tired at the time?
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[ZX-7R]

Crash bung done its job and protected the fairing.
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[TheArchitect]

Let me describe what happened...

This was partly down to the road conditions being quite slippery as its covered by trees, and largely to do with poor obs on my part.

From my POV I could see the first car approaching and I knew it was taking the centre of the road to avoid the bump. All good at this point. I judged the distance and speed nicely to get that same patch of road just after the car vacates it.

What I failed to see was the second car. From my angle it was completely hidden behind the first car and so took me by total surprise. This is where the panic bit comes in. I had already committed to taking that gap and so bad the car it seemed. Luckily he swerved away from me in the nick of time but I missed that and went into full avoidance mode.

Wet road, hard on the brake, front tyre catching the side of the speed bump at a shallow angle meant it locked and slid out from under me. By this point I was almost stationary so the drop wasn't as dramatic as it might appear in he clip. I did a roll for effect really!

Oh and the reason I don't take the left side of these types of speed bumps (certainly the case On this road) is because it's almost in the gutter, very dirty and in wet conditions is very slippery especially with the camber of the road.

Anyway lesson learned and all that.
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[BTTD]

Lucky the car swerved or we'd all be ripping you for riding into an oncoming car to avoid a traffic hump.

[ZX-7R]

[darkhorizon]

Neat bit of video on low light conditions!
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[Kaya75]

Crash bung did good job,
Shows me how heads get Squished at single figure speeds tho..

I do 23 speed humps on the way to work. Just stand up slightly on pegs and throttle on, there is loads of shitty hazard on that section to work, but the humps aren't one of them.

It was unlucky, if that had being a full width speed hump, you wouldn't have being fighting cars for the the wheel position in the middle of the road.

It was lucky there wasn't a third car /truck..

Didn't happen anyway.. No paint diagram.
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[kramdra]

The cyclist, they were both lining up to pass. Small gif hides it well. Cars can be unpredictable passing them, give plenty of space.