Quite happily bimbling round a left-hander this morning when the front let go. I don't mean slid a little, I mean completely tucked with the bars on full lock Except I didn't crash! This was a 40mph corner, taken briskly ... yet I didn't crash! Don't ask me why the carnage that should have followed never materialised because I don't have the slightest idea And just in case you think I'm bullshitting - you can still see the slide marks that are at 90 degrees to the rim that are on the very edge of the tyre **** me I'm lucky... Just call me Mick Doohan -- Veggie Dave UKRMHRC#2 BOTAFOF#08 IQ 18 FILMS http://www.iq18films.com Extreme Racing http://www.veggie-dave.co.uk Toxic Shock Syndrome Gets More Girls Than Me
I do believe you. <wibbly time travel effect> When I was about 18, I was in the habit of doing several laps of the roundabout by my house before I arrived home late in the evening. On one occasion, the front just slide, and I described a perfect tangent for what felt like ages (but was probably only a couple of feet) before it gripped again. I never did understand what happened. And, at Oulton in the pissing, *pissing* wet in 2003, I caught the front about half a dozen times, once with the bars at full lock. I think that was just plain old aqua-planing, tho. Only if you held it up on your knee.
Veggie Dave wrote I nearly died today but that was from heat stroke because I parked at the wrong end of Lakeside. HG gear can be a downright liability when you are off the bike on a warm day.
I went for a little bimble on the FZR, with its nice re-chromed forks on. What an excellent warm day it was too.
Depends if there was any traffic on the other side at the time? I'd say, we nearly lost out on those exotic dancers. Veggie Doohan. heh..
Muck wrote Oh **** me yes the fair weather crowd were out in force today they were. Fucking holding up the traffic and waving at fucking everybody as they slowly ride by in their tastefully matched leathers.
I did see a strange thing today, a Harley with standard quiet pipes on... *gasp*. Who'd have thought it?
Oh yeah - I got sun burnt, too, but that's a good thing -- Veggie Dave UKRMHRC#2 BOTAFOF#08 IQ 18 FILMS http://www.iq18films.com Extreme Racing http://www.veggie-dave.co.uk Toxic Shock Syndrome Gets More Girls Than Me
Have done just that and Spete or Fio was recording it too... fair made me catch my breath I'll tell you.
Monz says... I watched Flook do just that on the A54 when I was trying to catch him on Pip's old Bandit 12. He went into the hairpin by the pub and the front hit what looked like sheep shit, he just held it on his knee intil the front was pointing where he wanted it and then hoiked the bike back onto its tyres. I was gobsmacked.
Hehe, maybe it rubbed of on me. It was Flook and Christofire that finally taught me to get my kneedown. I was more "fucking hell what just happened" than gobsmacked )
