Why is it!

[pggg]

Came round a corner at 60 mph on my brand new 750K back in 79 - to be greeted by 3 stray horses. Hit one horse, richocheted into another, then richocheted into a ditch and totalled the whole front end. Eventually fixed the bike, but again, a few days later some clown drove right into me in a supermarket carpark. Ended up underneath the car with my helmet jammed under the car wheels. Not so long after, riding at night, a WHOLE CAR DOOR laying on the road loomed out of the darkness to say hello. The sparks as the poor bike somersaulted and cartwheeled for 50 metres were quite pretty to watch as I slid along behind in my cotton jeans. Ain't ever owned a Honda road bike since.

[Targetman]

Originally posted by pggg
Hit one horse, richocheted into another,.......

My GOD...... what a night"mare"

The guy in the video?..... He downshifts and leaves his friend with the handycam behind, (I froze the frame on his speedo at this point, but it's too blury to read). You can see his front end get light as he gives'er. Then I think he sees the wall and realizes he better hit the binders, which he does, hard. This transfers the weight to his front end and the rear gets light. Since he's turning hard and braking hard and most of his weight is on his front wheel, the rear tire brakes loose for a second (traction pie is used up).
By this time he is either too close to the wall to recover (for his abilities), or he just plain panic froze.

I don't know, just guessing....... anyway, it sure must have sucked!!

[LoserShoes]

Would have sucked even more if he had made over that wall into the couple hundred feet fall it looks like is there.

Steve

[MartyA]

Wha' happened? Did we overload that server?

error 404
Datei nicht gefunden!

File not found!


Das angegebene Dokument konnte auf diesem Server leider nicht gefunden werden.

The indicated document could not be found on this server unfortunately.

[Targetman]

here, let's see how long this link lasts.........

Brick Wall

[Fire2235fighter]

Error can't find web site

[prometheus578]

Ya think you've got probs...?
I watched it a coupla times at work... The phone rang, so I paused the video. Locked up the 'puter so bad that I couldn't re-start it, nor turn the damned thing off! Had to finally yank the plug out of the wall. Fired it up, and got all sorts of vicious error messages and such.
Just wait till the boss comes in on tuesday!

[Fire2235fighter]

Damn that really sucks, Good Luck Explaing that one

[xs650mike]

Got a "Page not found" also on the video.

About that one piece of gravel in the road, if you're on an XS11 just ignore it cause the bike won't respond quick enough to correct around it. The bike may twitch when it hits the gravel but that's all it'll do and nothing else will happen. If there's gravel all over the road then you broke a cardinal rule by charging a blind corner and you'll either be OK or you won't, it's out of your hands. When trying to avoid any object in the road, don't look at it, look at your escape path. If you look at the object you'll center punch it surer than s***!

Once in the mid '80s I was riding around a left hand bend on a 2 lane road at about 50 mph with SWMBO on the back of my XJ750RH. There was a bobtail box van coming the other way so I couldn't see around the turn. Suddenly from behind the box van appeared in our lane 3 (count 'em) squids line abreast on converted dirt bikes with gumball tires coming directly at us. All I could do was take to the gravel shoulder and try to keep from going into the deep gully that bordered the road. What followed was the only real full-on tankslapper I've ever experienced in 47 years in the saddle. Somehow we managed not to go down or into the ditch, the tankslapper caused us to lose a lot of speed and at about 35 mph or so I regained control and got back on the pavement. This outcome was pure luck, not skill on my part. At the time I really wished I was driving a Mack truck instead of my bike, it'd have been just like mashing flies on a screen. What possessed these jerks to pass on a blind curve I have no idea. Actually I do, they were squids and that's what squids do.

[prometheus578]

When trying to avoid any object in the road, don't look at it, look at your escape path. If you look at the object you'll center punch it surer than s***!

One of my favorite things to point out. As hunting mammals... if we look at something, we automatically are aiming. Never look at the brick laying in the road, nor stare at that deer standing there, either.
Quick test..next time on a familiar road with a mark or stain on it, stare at it as you approach, and then see how difficult it is to avoid it!
(I have to go through three speedbumps on the way to work. I breeze past them at 50 MPH by staring at the 6 inch wide drainage gap in the middle as I approach. Never missed it yet, but boy, if I ever do, I'll be all over the place.)