Whats your closest call??

[McJamweasel]

Ive had a couple, both my fault.
First one, Id only been riding a coupla months and my bike was playin up, it kept dying when i stopped - it just refused to idle. I was very pissed off with it and wasnt concentrating properly. I was filtering and someone in the traffic let someone pull out from astreet on the right - which i didnt see in time. Bugger.
Luckily the driver saw me and stopped, but only just. I stamped on the back brake and locked it up...slidey slidey....
I escaped tho!

Second was only a few weeks ago. Following a car with a bus in front of that, bus stops at a stop, car pulls out. I think to go around bus. But no, its going into a filter box to turn right. The car stops, i have nowhere to go 'cept to the right of it. Luckily there was nowt too close but it was close enuff to stop the car pulling out.

Ive never actually gobbed it tho.
Yet......
That was a brown trouser moment!
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[Dan]

came close the other day raging it round this bend at about 60 but the road was shit all bumpy and that so i took it to wide ended up on the other side of the road going round the corner, next thing i see this van cming the other way just managed to tuck in just in time, close though had the old heart going

[Kris]

Three months on the road, brand new NSR.....I knew everything about biking=======> or so I thought!

Approaching a long left-hander (blind corner) on a familiar lane near me. I was doing about 60 and a granny in a micra was up ahead, probably doing no more than 25. I closed in quick just as we got to the curve and went round the outside.....uh oh
Big f'kin skip lorry coming towards me...ARGHHHHHH!!!

I dont know how I missed the car let alone the lorry. Think I cut the car up at the last minute and got into my own lane just in time. mirror missed lorry by bout an inch .
You should have seen the lorry drivers face ( :o ) X 10000000 sums it up!!

Scary stuff

[Shamrock]

Seems that everytime im out theres a near miss. Not because of me though...its the car drivers,i swear!!

[retrofly]

Hi
The closest close call i had was a cold wet night in a car park and there were a few mates of mine watching, so i decide (nob head) to floor it. anyway i went over a white zebra crossing line and because it was cold the revs died in the power band then the engine kicked in and the back wheel steped out about half a meter (eye witness) but luckerly it managed to straighten itself out. Shite myself though.

Oh and yesterday i was rding with a couple of 400's and a 250 so i was tanking it, anyway i went round a corner and on the bend there was a roundabout so i had to go round the wrong way round it luckerly nothin was comming the other way, few.

Luke
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[zaknafien]

I had a close call on my cg125 before it got toasted, i was coming around a corner at around 55mph unlucky for me it was bloody freezing and as i was just abnout to come out of the bend the back wheel hit some black ice and the dreaded sideways slide started! :oops:

I managed to pull it back just before getting out of the corner but the only problem was i sideswiped a poor blokes Deawoo Matiz and took his wing mirror off (a wing mirror in the chest is not nice!)

other than that i havent had much, usually my scary things happen cornering im really crap at it :evil:

Zak

[Milo]

Going around a corner for the first time on the way back from brighton i hit some shit bumpy tarmack. what with the acceleration as well i had a tank slapper, fucking scary let me tell you! been looking for a steering damper but there isn't any available for my bike :(
would somehow adding more weight my bars down have a similar effect? it's mean it's take more power to turn them, so it *should* have a dampening affect. anyone tried this?
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[WildGoose]

whats a tank slapper by teh way

ive heard it a lot, but i dont know what it means

is it like when you are out of control and your thighs start slapping back and forth on the tank?

[Milo]

it mainly happens when you're accelerating away over rough ground. because the front end lightens up it reaacts more to the surface. over rough ground it would force the bars left/right and as grip is retained the steering would instantly be forced back in the other direction. this is an endless loop until either you come off or regain control. you don't wanna ever find out what it's like first hand

[WildGoose]

oh right, i see

dont much like the sound of that

ive never really had a major close call, but i always nearly get flattened when motorists change lanes for no reason on a dual carriageway for no reason, without indication, and (apparently) without seeing me

i use my indicators ALL THE TIME for every single manevour that reuqires them, car drivers seem to just not bother, "oh i cant see anything after a quick glance in one mirror i'll just change lanes for a laugh"

it pisses me off so much, you should ALWAYS use your indicators, even if there is nothing there, cos you can never be 100% certain, and its good practice, and its not difficult to use them, and they dont exactly waste batteries

and it may mean teh difference between a healthy biker, and a biker sliding along the ground at 50mph on his arse cos some flat foot rude boy in a car shouldnt be on the roads

GRRRR!

<sorry rant over>