| Author | Message | ||
     Bdrag |
Well boyzz, Its been cold and wet and my old self has not been on a bike in a month or so. Right foot / ankle has been real sore and not wanting to support tipy toe weight in a quik fashion so no riding the tall bikes. Well todays afternoon high is to be around 70 degrees. So I dawn the cold gear and head out on the Buell in the low 30's for work. 4 miles from the house in fairly heavy traffic for a friday morn at 5:30am, I am exiting 75 south where it meets the George Bush Freeway. There is an entrance from the access road that enters 75 in the exit lane from 75 to the exit ramp for the Bush. STUPID DESIGN! So ya have to fight the oncomers to get over to exit. The whole damn lane is only 100 yards long maybe? Its a clusterfawk to say the least. Anyway I am riding the ass of the CRV in front to keep from being smashed from the guy gettin on from the right. We exit to the ramp that then splits left and right for the east or west Bush. All of a sudden BRAKE LIGHTS! SHIT! I slam on both rear and front brakes and the bike is stopping but the closure rate is not good! SHIT! I am gonna hit this CRV! I steered slightly left and thought I was going to pass the crv on the left but NO! There is the cause, two dumb bitches with the hood up half way in the ramp with another car fwd of them and ANOTHER on the right side half way blocking the ramp. SHIT! Somehow I steered back right and felt the bikes ass end just a wigglin and I belive I was in a full stoppie mod at some point! The CRV let off the brakes for a split second and I evened out the the closure rate and just at the last second he had to jab them on hard and I think, THINK I bumped his bumper with my front tire! The bikes ass was in the air for a split second from the stoppie or the bumper rub, not sure which. This all whilst the smell of burning rubber was in the air. Was it my tires stinking, the cars ahead or maybe the cars behind me? I have NO IDEA if someone was behind me sliding or not. There was a car on my ass as we exited. Never had a chance to look! As we passed the dead cars I yelled STUPID FawCKERS, and as the CRV accelled I did to. We entered the BUSH and as I passed the CRV I gave him a nice hand wave for lettin off his brakes IF he did. Just in case I wanted him to know I appreciated his move. So it was as close as I have ever come to SMACKIN the back of a car at speed. About 60 when it all started happining. Once at work I sat and had a cup. Ahhh this cup of coffee taste better than usual this morn! Hhahaaaa......... BE SAFE out there. BDRAG | ||
| Rotorhead |
Nothin' better than a pucker of the brown starfish early in the morn to get the hart rate up. Now you see why they do the emergency stop in the MSF rider course. I have a coffee every morn' but I have mine without the pucker. | ||
| Bdrag |
Rotorhead I think that the play hard factor helped more than the advance corse did. Play hard for practice at slower speeds! Hhahahaaaaa. As far as the pucker factor, its weird but I think I have scared myself so many times that the adrenal gland is busted. BDRAG (Message edited by bdrag on January 28, 2011) | ||
| Sharkguy |
A couple of years ago I got rear ended at a red light by a sport ute. I was on my KLR it was 5:20 am. It punted me and the bike about 10 feet. I was basically unhurt. The bike was rideable although the front end was tweaked a bit. I still went in to work since it was less than a mile from there. I have never seen such a great sunrise! All my senses were on overdrive. I could hear better, see more clearly. It's amazing what a good adrenaline shot will do! Anyway, glad you are ok. Things could have been much different. | ||
| Barkbuster |
Play hard is great practice! As a retired Wera past champ I still play as hard as I can.I`ve kept the skills alive riding in the woods over the years and dabbled in supermotard a few years back. I really got comfy riding the Uly last year and kept the pavement skills alive. Glad to see you`ll be torturing your tires another day  | ||
| Bdrag |
UPDATE... Drove by this morn where it almost happened. There were 3 or 4 different sets of skid marks going all over the place about where I started my episode. So I suspect all that rubber I was smelling was the closeres commin at me from behind! I am glad I didn't have time to check the mirrors. HAHhaaaaa. DEW DEW! BDRAG | ||
| Gunut75 |
My last pucker moment ended with a BIG stoppie. +1 on the heightened senses; and renewed sense of self preservation. I would have clobbered that van if I had not practiced emergency stops. Don't get me wrong: I don't practice stoppies, but it kept me from panic. I could hear and feel what the front tire was doing. That kept me from going over the front wheel. My last thought was "might as well scrub off as much speed as possible so it don't hurt as much". Next thing I knew I was letting out the front brake tryin to get the arse end of the bike back on the ground. When all was said and done, I was still a foot off of the van's bunper. Who knew they stop so fast......... Kudos on your survival! | ||
| Reepicheep |
Well handled! Get yourself to a parking lot so when it happens again, you are fairly comfortable doing a full stoppie in a panic stop situation. Not "show off" stoppies, but ones where you carry the rear wheel about a foot off the ground for as long as it takes to stop the bike. Then practice going from about 50mph to about 15 doing that, dropping the back down again, and doing an immediate evasive swerve. I practiced it and could do it well on the 9sx, haven't practiced it on the Uly yet. | ||
| Motorbike |
I was doing about 65mph last summer in Minneapolis on I-494 on my new 08 XT when the gal in front of me suddenly slammed on the brakes of her car while in the center of 3 lanes. I'll admit I was caught off guard and was forced to slam the brakes hard. The front end dived and the rear tire squealed a bit then the squealing stopped, I assume there was hardly any weight on the tire at that moment. I was able to let off of the brakes and swerve around the car's left side and missed her rear bumper by about 2 feet. Fortunately there was no one to my left side at the moment. Scared the H*ll out of me! As I continued on, I saw the reason for the sudden stop. I try not to be predjudice, but a gal with a scarf wrapped around her entire face was trying to exit the freeway on the right and when she could not exit because of traffic, she just stopped in the middle of the road! That caused the gal ahead of me to panic and stomp on her brakes. I hope the one that caused this excitement understood my hand gesture as I went by! | ||
| Judotrip |
did a full brake grab and stomp one early morning when a light did the quick change. I had just did a brake job so they were as good as they get. Luckily shifted my arse to the back of the seat(Probably because I was stomping the foot brake so hard). Uly just slid straight aheah with no endo or swerve. I was wide awake following it and a guy in the other lane was clapping for me... | ||
| Babired |
I've almost been in the same situation you were in on 95 and a beltway around the city its an exit off for me but and exit onto the beltway for many others. The later it gets in the morning the more jammed the exit is so the last morning I rode on this route I was crammed up against another car trying to exit off then hitting the brakes and making sure the guy behind me knew I was there, he didn't and it was close. I was on my ULY no matter how bright my gear and stickers were everybody was paying attention to the merging traffic. I choose a new path to work from that day on. I lowered the BP a little and increase the commute a couple of minutes and that was fine by me! No stoppies happened. If you guys want to learn stoppies in a controlled enviroment Total Control Level 2 will teach you how to. I used to do stoppies and my feet and whole body would slide forward on the bike, not scary but fun, now I keep my feet onthe pegs and have better control of my body going forward while my rear tire is in the air. (Message edited by babired on January 31, 2011) |
