Dropped my bike!

Champ wrote

Swot they are taught in school innit, bring it to rest on the back brake
and all that shite. The next thing from walking pace is stopped
according to them and you should be usung your back brake to do it.
Personally I fancy they should look to their motivation if the think the
next thing to walking pace is stopping but each to his own.

 

What if you're taught that the foot you put down on the ground, is the
right (as we are here in Paradise), as it's thus protected from traffic
by the bike ?

 

Not nearly as ignorant as you, tosser. Or is there some valid reason
for repeating the entire post?

 

1. Why shouldn't he?

2. Why repeat the whole post and add one line yourself?

3. Ever heard of a signature sparator?

 

Useful worked example, butt she doesn't seem to know her conjuntions from

<sp> conjunctions </sp>

 

genuine_froggie wrote

We get a thing called the "Traffic Light Shuffle" that ends up with your
left foot down and your right on the brake and the bike in neutral.
with a set of "Pulling away is the opposite of stopping" choreography
for later use.

 

And anticipate when you buy a bike that by the time you sell it
you might be a feeble old git. Do they still make C90s?

I wonder if my various fractured vertebrae, which I can't
remember happening, were the result just of osteopoenia
or of picking up pianos and motorcycles.

 

Eiron wrote

Cheeky ****.

I haven't dropped the bindit yet. I have hurt me leg twice stopping it
mind. Next time it fucking goes, bollox to it, it could be me back.

 

Heh. It happens to the best of us.

Besides, it`ll put you in good shape for when you eventually meet the Crisp
Packet of Doom. Stop, foot out, foot on crisp packet, long slow drop. I`m
convinced if they ever make a perpetual motion device, at it`s heart will be
the wrapper off a packet of prawn cocktail.

No shit. [1]

[1] Unless you have a CB200 like I have, where a squeeze is what you give
the caliper for a friendly warning that you`re planning on stopping sometime
this week. The grab actually tells it to stop. Which is does. Eventually...

 

That particular dance was the Hendon Shuffle when I were a lad.

 

Eiron wrote

I have heard it called that but not by any native Estuary speaker. Rich
and colourful our dialect might be but some things are simply not
referred to. Cultural thing it is.

 

Well no, because the Bandit dropped at a standstill three times, and the
FJR once (I wasn't referring to my crash on the FJR, as Rog 'invite
myself' Tattersal and a passerby lifted the bike on that occasion.

 

Ferger wrote

Or be *very* inexperienced.

 

'estuary speaker' ... *nice*

 

genuine_froggie wrote

It was coined as an insult by one of our funnier right wing nutcases and
it somewhat backfired on him as folks in the area are rather fond of the
idea of a distinct SE English Working Class linguistic identity. We are
not allowed to do territorial identities much in the SE and it is nice
when we can.

 

You put the bike in gear, turn your back to it knees bent, grab the low
side handlebar with one hand, turning the bar close to the tank on the
low side and grab something solid at the rear on the low side, then
just straighten your knees.

As the bike rises up, keep your backside pressed hard against the seat.
This will help steady it and give you the chance to get a better grip
lower down the bike if necessary.

 

Sometime around Fri, 18 Mar 2005 18:42:50 +0100, genuine_froggie babbled

Try riding a bike weighing 276 kgs with a full tank that puts me (6'3")
on tippy toes when I stop, **** left foot only down.

 

steve auvache composed the following;:

Isn't it easier to use the brakes?

 

Blimey. You do crash a lot, don't you?

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