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24 comments:
At least he has gloves on. This is a good example why you need to wear gloves. The hands seem to come out automaticly in this situation. Hope the rider and bike fared as well as possible.
Was he cited for improper use of a turnout? :-)
This would have been one of those times that it would have been better to lay it down. I know people want to ride it out and try to save it. I would be guilty of that too.
Looks like he let go of rear brake after locking it up. One mistake followed by another. Turned what could have been a low side slide into a high side "throw". High sides usually come out worse for the bike and rider. MSF and a little more practice might have helped out for sure.
Some people say riding a motorcycle is like flying a few feet off the ground. This guy decided to see if that's true.
At least the luggage bag, and mirror saved the gas tank.
It was an acceleration high-side, not a rear braking high-side. He was exiting the turn.
Assisted by just so-so body position. Head and shoulders are above the tank in the "before" photo.
+1 on gloves too. A highside I had scratched up some gloves pretty bad when I hit the pavement. Protected my hands though.
Tuck and roll!
I believe the saying goes, when it doubt, throttle out. Probably would have avoided the highside. Probably still gone down, but it would've hurt a lot less.
This makes a good case for traction control and ABS. I know training is the best but for newbies or even people that aren't accustom to these types of roads it would save some ass.
I love reading all the "internet expert" advice on here.
What went wrong doesn't matter. What matters is that he's ok. Next, you dust your ass off and get back on your bike. Lesson learned I hope. It happens to the best.
Great photography! I hate to see someone wreck but great picture.
martvol- "This would have been one of those times that it would have been better to lay it down. I know people want to ride it out and try to save it. I would be guilty of that too."
Where does one start with that utter rubbish?
CLUELESS
My PROVEN theory is most guys you hear casually mentioning the "laying it down" myth are riders who have previously PANICKED and crashed their bikes.
Then, ALL embarassed, they start telling the old "yup, HAD to lay'er down!"
THEN, to VALIDATE the steaming-pile of bullshit that he HAD to "lay it down", said rider who PANICKED and crashed will casually mention laying it down like it is something that ACTUALLY exists!
SO, martvol, ever crash before? Then told people how you HAD to do it? hmmm?
I already know the answer, so don't bother lying..I just want to know if you had coffee in your hand when it happened?
now, please skip your usual obfuscating and tell us EXACTLY what "laying it down" is, AND EXACTLY how one does it?
Do you ever read, and comprehend anything? Read again. There is that last line that I would be guilty of riding it out too!! In hind sight it would have been better to lay it down, or follow through with the first crash, that he saved, and I would have tried like hell to do, just to be bitten by a worse crash. Gessh we are not idiots here. Well, I can only speak for myself.
PAY ATTENTION!!!!!!!
WHAT THE FUCK does "laying it down" MEAN, and HOW the fuck do you go about that?
hmmmmm? Are you THICK?
I CLEARLY ask that ABOVE, and you CLEARLY did NOT answer, as usual!
So, for the fourth time:
Exactly WHAT THE FUCK does "laying it down" MEAN, and HOW the fuck do you go about that?
NO SUCH THING!
How MANY MSF Instructors teach "laying it down"??
ZERO POINT ZERO
Again, I apologize to everyone else reading this.
Nothing I say will be right, I know this.
You are pretty thick.
No. An instructor is not going to tell you to give up and fall off the bike.
A low side is laid down. Not that someone meant to do that. If this person had tried to correct by switching from power to brake, he probly would have laid his bike down. But, he is not giving up by doing that. There is a chance he could straighten out the bike. At that point it is all instict, some will hit the brake, some won't. You can make an argument both ways. When your bike is sideways the last thing you want is for the tire to "hook up". It will throw your ass. My statment above is that the low side "lay down" would have been easier on him and the bike both. Leather works good in a slide, but not so much a drop from altitude.
And I will repeat. It is not something someone "thinks" about at the time, because they don't have time. It is all reaction. And I am not saying this guy did it wrong, either.
Been a while since i read "Twist of the wrist" but wasn't it said in that book, that in the event of a powerslide while exiting a turn you have 3 options:
- chop the throttle and high side
- increase the throttle and lowside
- hold the throttle steady and let the bike sort itself out (and if that doesnt work it will lowside).
And yeah, my first powerslide in the wet made me chop the throttle and i almost highsided (was slow enough, but ohmyword did i hurt me jewels) and second time I held it steady and it was like nothing special, apart from elevated adrenalin levels for a few minutes.
Of course it matters what went wrong. Hopefully, he learned something from it and doesn't do it again. You've heard 'once bitten twice shy'?
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