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Hooning around one of my favourite local roads, I rounded a particularly fast bend only to be confronted by a tractor hedge cutter.
No problem, I'll just slip past, into the path of an oncoming car.
Luckily the bike is very flickable.
Too fast for the conditions? Of course. |
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Low siding my trusty old Z400 into the front of an oncoming Shell artic petrol tanker and body surfing down the catseyes coming to halt by his rear wheels was quite the buzz. Had to stay with the driver as he went into shock.
Lesson: Don't ever run on cheap tyres that are through to the webbing, at least, not in wet weather. ____________________ Make mine a Corona. |
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Back in the day, out near Chester on my FZR600, one mate on his CBR1000, the other on another with his wife on the back.
The roads were wet, but being on a 600 I had to work hard to keep up so when we stopped at the traffic light to turn left, I decided I needed to give it some to get away. Lights changed, lots of revs through first gear, into second and the back end starts to come round. More through luck that skill, I managed to stay upright, gather it all together and disappear down the road.
When we stopped for a tea break later, my mates were impressed, my mate's wife wasn't and she didn't speak to me for weeks after |
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I've had quite a few on all bikes over these 4 years but I can only think of the ones on the zx9r, not that they're that much compared to some of yours.
1. Had the bike for a couple weeks, getting used to the power. Going home from ace, another friend on the hornet gases it down the ramp onto the a406, here we go I think! Cept I didn't account for the weight of my very relaxed pillion sitting upright. Front wheel comes up, friend scrambles for dear life and manages to get hold of me, come down and bounce up again as I grabbed the throttle, come down crooked and go wee weeing all over the lane. Bike sorts itself out and onwards I go very calmly. Must have been a spectacle. Friend was very quite for awhile.
2. Moving house, got a friend to ride my other bike to the new place. He overtakes getting onto the parkway in Feltham, I can't make it so overtake after the turn and gas it. Suddenly there's a lorry turning into the road. Oh I'm going 100mph, great. Brake ike fuck, and do an almighty rolling stoppie. Released some and bike came down, I slowed enough not to have a rear bumper for braces.
3. Roadtrip to south of France. Trying to keep up with this uber cool Frenchie on some tricked out Buell down a brand new road, amazing. Until, reaaaaally long bend, too much speed, I look left I see the road worrying close, I took right I see an abyss. Pray to hell and lean a lil more (probs ok but over my comfort zone). I lost sight of him after that, when we reached destination 10 mins later I just sat next to the bike wondering about the meaning of life for awhile.
4. Just the other day, I was changing lanes on mway, I look to the left nada, mirror nada, as soon as I cross the line a car speeds past me like fuck, missing me by very little. Not sure where it came from tbh, probably a bad observation on my side.
Mostly I learnt, beware of how much speed creeps, never try to keep up. ____________________
Lexmoto Valiant 125; 94 CB400; 96 CB750F2; 81 CB750 (restoring, lol not gonna happen); 2001 ZX9R(It's about to go :c); 2012 R1200R; 2015 R1200RS |
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Posted: 13:38 - 30 Sep 2022 Post subject: Re: Time to change the underpants. |
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chickenstrip wrote: | What's the most frightening experience you have had on a bike, that you walked away from physically unharmed, and maybe learned something to stand you in good stead for your future riding?
Mine goes all the way back to my earliest days with my Kawasaki GPz750 Turbo.
I had it in a lock-up before I'd even passed my test, and would go out and sneak rides on it late at night.
I was on a very wide, multi-lane dual carriageway (where the A406 North Circular joins the M11). A gentle downhill slope, I was in one of the nearside lanes heading for the roundabout that the beginning of the motorway then passes over. I had wound it on full throttle, speed probably got up to something like 130mph or thereabouts when the bike went into the most terrifying and violent tank slapper, a proper lock-to-lock one.
Here I was, a total n00b on big bikes, with no idea that a bike could do something like that, and no idea of how to react. They don't teach you such things in novice bike training!
I remember feeling that it would be a mistake to try to brake, or even to try to take firm charge of the steering. It seemed to go on forever, but couldn't have lasted more than a few seconds in reality. I just really lightened my grip on the bars (which I could barely touch anyway, so violent was the movement going on), let go of the throttle, and waited for my imminent demise when it would finally spit me off. But fortunately, it settled out quickly as the speed dropped. To this day, I have no idea if there was something I could have done to take back charge quicker than I did, and thankfully, have never experienced another one. And thank the heavens that it happened in such a wide open space late at night when there was very little other traffic around!
I rode straight home, put the bike away, and went to bed, probably with the adrenaline still coursing through me
I'm not sure what lessons I specifically learned from that, other than that big, powerful bikes deserve a lot of respect, and maybe I learned something about sensitivity to how a bike is behaving from moment to moment, when it's telling you to back off before you get into trouble. |
Following you around some random roads in Wales. ____________________ Disclaimer: The comments above may be predicted text and not necessarily the opinion of MCN. |
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Posted: 15:12 - 30 Sep 2022 Post subject: Re: Time to change the underpants. |
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Funnily enough, I don't remember any frightening moments from my riding in Wales, although for a period I had a lot of fun there.
When I broke my back, well that wasn't frightening, just stupid inattention on my part, slow speed anyway.
Wales is the place that really taught me how to be in control with fast (ish) riding, was probably at my best for a while then.
What you did following me isn't my problem ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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in lifford lane, kings norton birmingham there used to be a bridge, the road was flat the one side of the bridge and the other side the road dropped away at what felt like a 45 degree angle, they did fix it years ago however
so going back to say 87 or 88 I had a VT500, and my mates out with us were on an RD400 and a CX500
coming back from evesham where we'd been to see someone we headed back and ended up on lifford lane, I wasn't too clued up at the time but CX500 dropped back and I was chasing the RD400 flat out with another mate on the pillion
we hit the bridge at easy 80 mph, no sudden lift but the bike started to drop away from underneath me as we sped into the air
so I'm midair with just the bars in my hands, pillion is looking down at my helmet
the VT hits the road, I land in the saddle and pillion lands back in the seat behind me, and we carry on, as you do
got back to RD400 owners house and the guy on the CX gives us the telling off of telling offs, he thought we were never going to make it ____________________ Some people feel the rain, others just get wet. |
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andys675 wrote: | in lifford lane, kings norton birmingham there used to be a bridge, the road was flat the one side of the bridge and the other side the road dropped away at what felt like a 45 degree angle, they did fix it years ago however
so going back to say 87 or 88 I had a VT500, and my mates out with us were on an RD400 and a CX500
coming back from evesham where we'd been to see someone we headed back and ended up on lifford lane, I wasn't too clued up at the time but CX500 dropped back and I was chasing the RD400 flat out with another mate on the pillion
we hit the bridge at easy 80 mph, no sudden lift but the bike started to drop away from underneath me as we sped into the air
so I'm midair with just the bars in my hands, pillion is looking down at my helmet
the VT hits the road, I land in the saddle and pillion lands back in the seat behind me, and we carry on, as you do
got back to RD400 owners house and the guy on the CX gives us the telling off of telling offs, he thought we were never going to make it |
Are there not bridges all around the country where people go specifically to do just that?
I remember the days when a few of us would head out on the Princetown - Exeter road with the bridge at Poundsgate being the highlight of the trip. The bridge is still there. ____________________ Make mine a Corona. |
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mentalboy wrote: | andys675 wrote: | in lifford lane, kings norton birmingham there used to be a bridge, the road was flat the one side of the bridge and the other side the road dropped away at what felt like a 45 degree angle, they did fix it years ago however
so going back to say 87 or 88 I had a VT500, and my mates out with us were on an RD400 and a CX500
coming back from evesham where we'd been to see someone we headed back and ended up on lifford lane, I wasn't too clued up at the time but CX500 dropped back and I was chasing the RD400 flat out with another mate on the pillion
we hit the bridge at easy 80 mph, no sudden lift but the bike started to drop away from underneath me as we sped into the air
so I'm midair with just the bars in my hands, pillion is looking down at my helmet
the VT hits the road, I land in the saddle and pillion lands back in the seat behind me, and we carry on, as you do
got back to RD400 owners house and the guy on the CX gives us the telling off of telling offs, he thought we were never going to make it |
Are there not bridges all around the country where people go specifically to do just that?
I remember the days when a few of us would head out on the Princetown - Exeter road with the bridge at Poundsgate being the highlight of the trip. The bridge is still there. |
I used to do that at the end of the road Jensen Button grew up in with my brother on the back of my bike...
(He lived in Vobster, I lived in Coleford and used to go through Vobster to get to Frome and there is still a majestic hump back bridge in upper vobster and so we used to go that way just for the crack.) ____________________ trevor saxe-coburg-gotha:"Remember this simple rule - scooters are for men who like to feel the breeze on their huge, flapping cunt lips."
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 1 year, 19 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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