2 important lessons learned today

[Aitch]

1. Tyres take more than 2 or 3 minutes to warm up.
2. You can lose traction on the back wheel when accelerating to pass a car on a wet road even with tyres only 1800km old.
3. It's not a great idea to ride just cause you're feeling really uptight and want to blow the cobwebs out.

So that's three....sue me!

[onearmedbandit]

1/ Yep
2/ Yep
3/ Nah thats a great time to go out for a ride. Well works for me.

[Warr]

1. Tyres take more than 2 or 3 minutes to warm up.
2. You can lose traction on the back wheel when accelerating to pass a car on a wet road even with tyres only 1800km old.
3. It's not a great idea to ride just cause you're feeling really uptight and want to blow the cobwebs out.

So that's three....sue me!
More information required... Did you stay up, or perhaps just back stepped out a tad?

[Aitch]

went into at least one corner far too fast.....that's how I know that adrenalin is brown!!!! Was riding far too hard for my abilities and way beyond the conditions....still, got home in one piece, and learnt a bit about me and my bike!

[Aitch]

More information required... Did you stay up, or perhaps just back stepped out a tad?

but the back wheel was awfully twitchy....and I think I even scared the car driver when I went past him a bit sideways!

[Riff Raff]

3. It's not a great idea to ride just cause you're feeling really uptight and want to blow the cobwebs out.
Yeah it is! I tend to go the other way tho and just cruise for a bit until I feel the tension dissapating. It's when I'm fucked off and get into my car that I'm a menace!

[zadok]

Re: point 2. Once I was overtaking a truck on a wet straight stretch of road and the back stepped out rather badly under acceleration. Not nice at all. The next day I checked that stretch of road and noticed it had a lot of oil build up on it. Been careful on that stretch ever since.

[Krayy]

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3. It's not a great idea to ride just cause you're feeling really uptight and want to blow the cobwebs out...
I always found that it was great to take a ride to clear out a hangover. Head down to McD's and get a 1/4 pdr (specify no pickle so they make it fresh and has lotsa fat dripping out of it), chug the burger then go off with faceplate up to force feed the air into your lungs. Works a treat.

P.S. Under no circumstances should this be tried while your blood alc level is still above .05 mg/l.

[Smorg]

I always found that it was great to take a ride to clear out a hangover. Head down to McD's and get a 1/4 pdr (specify no pickle so they make it fresh and has lotsa fat dripping out of it), chug the burger then go off with faceplate up to force feed the air into your lungs. Works a treat.

P.S. Under no circumstances should this be tried while your blood alc level is still above .05 mg/l.

I try not to ride even if ive only had 2 beers, i like to keep my reactions up as high as i can :drinkup:

[inlinefour]

1/ Yep
2/ Yep
3/ Nah thats a great time to go out for a ride. Well works for me.

Half the time, its because of 3 that I'm on my bike :devil2:

[Hitcher]

3. It's not a great idea to ride just cause you're feeling really uptight and want to blow the cobwebs out.
So now you're denying me my therapy! Works better for me than drugs or incamahol...

[riffer]

I heard the OEM tyres on those bikes were a bit sus...

sound like I heard right.

Good thing you didn't spin the whoel bike around - could have been nasty...

The roads are still a bit cold in the mornings too.

But you've just summed up the very reason why I don't ride if I'm in a shitty mood.

[madboy]

been there, done that, got the medical certificate.

[enigma51]

3. It's not a great idea to ride just cause you're feeling really uptight and want to blow the cobwebs out.



Had a shitty experience this weekend and although it might have been the easy option to not ride home it did me the world of good cleared the mind a bit so dont fully agree with you but agree that you should take it easy when you have something on your mind

PS rep point coming your way

[Aitch]

I heard the OEM tyres on those bikes were a bit sus...

sound like I heard right.

Good thing you didn't spin the whoel bike around - could have been nasty...

The roads are still a bit cold in the mornings too.

But you've just summed up the very reason why I don't ride if I'm in a shitty mood.
I gots Dunlops back and front. Sport something or other...(Bikes not here so I can't pop out and check!)

[White trash]

I gots Dunlops back and front. Sport something or other...(Bikes not here so I can't pop out and check!)

Get rid of the Dunlop 207s pronto. They were shit 8 years ago when they were the best Dunlop had to offer. Now, they're downright dangerous.

[Aitch]

Get rid of the Dunlop 207s pronto. They were shit 8 years ago when they were the best Dunlop had to offer. Now, they're downright dangerous.
The same thing??????

[Aitch]

Get rid of the Dunlop 207s pronto. They were shit 8 years ago when they were the best Dunlop had to offer. Now, they're downright dangerous.
should I replace them?

[Aitch]

Get rid of the Dunlop 207s pronto. They were shit 8 years ago when they were the best Dunlop had to offer. Now, they're downright dangerous.

Replaced the tyres, cost me about $14k...but they threw in a new bike with them!

[zeRax]

congrats on the new bike :D was wondering why this thread was alive

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