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Borrowedbike
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - 12:00 pm: | 
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So we've all heard about someone we don't know going down, but do we learn more when someone we know goes down? How about a thread for discussing our getoffs, with a focus on "What we did" (Not what we didn't do, and not what we did WRONG, just what we did. See Twist of the Wrist if you want to understand why this is the best way to look at rider errors) so w can lean form each other?
I'll start.
A couple years ago, NOvember (Three of you were thee) Cold day, Cold tire, new to the bike. Pulling out of a parking lot, I rolled on a lot of throttle, the rear spun out from under me. This fired off TWO survival reactions (SR's), I tightend up on the bars and chopped the throttle. Think about it, on a bike when the rear slides it causes the bike to turn into the spin. Pure physics, rear slides on bikes are self correcting. Instead of allowing this to happen I rolled off the throttle, upseting the suspension and causing the rear to hook up. This pitched the bike over and I fell off.
If I can train myself to let the bike ride itself out of these, it will take care of it on its own...
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Xbswede
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - 03:47 pm: |
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Well I dumped my bike Sunday 4-06 while attempting to make a left hand turn. I ended up braking in a turn on gravel. This caused my front wheel to skid and eventually drop me as I attempted to make the turn. Bikes do not like braking in turns. It causes the bike to stand up which induced the survival reactions causing me to keep hold of the brakes until I went down. |
Fatrabbit
| | Posted on Monday, April 06, 2009 - 11:48 pm: |
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So there I was....hanging out with some friends who were stunting in an industrial park. (I could probably leave it at that.) A friend of mine was saying how he was having trouble with finding the balance point in a wheelie and I explained that it was further than you think it is and once you bounce off it a few times that's all there is to it. After my brilliant period of instruction I set out to demonstrate. (Keep in mind my seven years experience wasn't the issue but my choice of bikes, 4 years dirt bike, 4 years gsxr 750, 2 years gsxr 1000, 1 month xb12s.) I think it was about 4k when I dumped the clutch and about a second later when I managed to roll to my stomach that I was able to watch how effortlessly the XB was able to pirouette and cartwheel through the air.
Moral of the story. #1 Peer pressure is a M&%*#@ F%#$&*. #2 I learned in those few seconds that anybody can go fast in a straight line, anybody can wreck their bike doing something stupid, and it is possible to ride your whole life and not really know what your bike can do.
So where does that leave me?...Over the last year I've been learning to ride. As soon as my bike came out of the shop I hit the canyons and never looked back. Still haven't broke 100 MPH since and a half dozen little wheelies ( you know the shift to second thing) Anyways I hope somebody can learn from my mistakes what took me seven years to figure out.} |
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