How close was I to coming off?

[Lupine Lacuna]

So I was overtaking a still lane of traffic this morning (I was overtaking in the other lane) and, as you approach the traffic lights, the lane with the traffic in splits in two - the left lane to turn left, the right to turn right.

As I was coming up to about the third car before the lights, I noticed my little gap where I would cut through to get into left hand lane. So I started braking, in hindsight clearly too hard, and turned at the same time as I was coming down to about 5-10 mph as I was doing this my back wheel locked up. It slid for about 2 seconds.

Was I lucky not to fall off? If you could ever get into a position where you did this completely under control and on purpose, it could be a lot of fun (but preferably not so close to other cars)

[sickpup]

You seriously need to get your cock sucked.

HTH

[nowhere.elysium]

You'd last all of about four seconds in a real urban environment.
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[chris-red]

So close it was unreal, I mean YOU COULD HAVE DIED!
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[MarJay]

Learn to ride properly. 1.) You shouldn't have locked up the rear tyre, 2.) You should be able to control a locked rear tyre.

HTH.
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[nowhere.elysium]

[Lupine Lacuna]

I did control the rear locked tyre.

[MarJay]

[sickpup]

Maybe you should get a bike with ABS...

HTH

[weasley]

[symonh2000]

Locking up the rear is nothing, it is when the front locks that you need to worry.
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[anthony_r6]

[map]

[Rogerborg]

[Lupine Lacuna]

It was wet, by the way... I remember thinking, 'christ, my rear wheel is sliding, how am I still upright? This is a cool feeling'

[MarJay]

[flumpy7]

Something interesting happened to me the other day.

I was riding my old vt500ef in the rain at about 20mph and pulled on the brakes fairly lightly coming up to a roundabout. The front started to slide out...so i let go of the brakes and then lightly pressed them again only for the same thing to happen again. As there was nothing coming at the roundabout i just kind of drifted out into the roundabout in the end but it was really odd.

I've been riding nearly 15 years on all kinds of bikes and never locked the front up. Its an old bike with pretty shitty brakes but still....it was very unexpected. Maybe it was a diesel spill?

Just thought i'd share.
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[dan_flash]

[The Shaggy D.A.]

[EXC-Rider]

i used to lock up my back wheel on my 125 at like 50 on purpose,

now i do rolling burnouts
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[nowhere.elysium]

[kawashima]

[P.]

Almost as close as I am to beating your face with a pole.

That close.

HTH

[Andy_Pagin]

[tbourner]