Throttle control

[sil3nt]

You're doing it wrong


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6YU8gpV8rY

:crazy:

[sil3nt]

A good video for learners to watch I reckon!

[drift77nz]

Too much money and not enough confidence or ability. Expensive lesson in throttle control. Good example of the intolerance for an inexperienced rider on a bike like that.

[ellipsis]

...you learn something new everyday...I just watched 5.24 minutes of Mulholland riders ,NOT, falling off...so it's not compulsory?...

[discotex]

He's horribly crossed up as well...

[jellywrestler]

if he wore a high viz jacket he wouldn't have fallen off.

[macka77]

Well at least he could run home cause he's wearing sneakers

[drift77nz]

if he wore a high viz jacket he wouldn't have fallen off.

Not sure if that would have helped.

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[G4L4XY]

eat that tarmac

[Big Dog]

Surely he realised something was wrong with his cornering technique / engine speed when every corner his front end started bobbing like a porn star without touching the brake. Lucky to have got away with it a few times first.


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[TheDemonLord]

why is he trying to get his knee down when he can't keep his right hand steady?

[The Reibz]

Worlds biggest shit cunt

[SMOKEU]

I hope the rider learned their lesson. At least it didn't end too badly.

[AllanB]

Strikes me as another example of American stupidity when anyone can by any sized bike and become a 'rider'.

I does show how useful the correct riding gear is though as if he had a open face or no helmet it would have been an ambulance trip.

[pritch]

Not sure if that would have helped.



That's probably why you aren't a politician? :whistle: They are sure.

[sil3nt]

Strikes me as another example of American stupidity when anyone can by any sized bike and become a 'rider'.

I does show how useful the correct riding gear is though as if he had a open face or no helmet it would have been an ambulance trip.:facepalm:


Rider visiting from Taiwan gets to fully experience the famous turn that eats bikes most weekends. Fortunately just minor road rash and damage to a borrowed relatives R1. Also note, Alpine Stars textile suite he wore was worthless, ripped at seems, maybe a knock off, what textile suite comes with knee sliders?

[Mike.Gayner]

I does show how useful the correct riding gear is though as if he had a open face or no helmet it would have been an ambulance trip.

"Correct gear" being a knock-off Alpine suit that fell apart, and tennis shoes?

[caspernz]

Cool bike and gear...riding ability not so much :killingme

[pzkpfw]

I don't understand the thread title. He was doing lots of throttle control.

[skippa1]

"Correct gear" being a knock-off Alpine suit that fell apart
I didn't see it fall apart and how can you tell it's a knock off?

[sil3nt]

I didn't see it fall apart and how can you tell it's a knock off?Read the comments on the youtube page.

[pritch]

Read the comments on the youtube page.

Interesting. And it was unfair to blame the Yanks, 'cause he was from Taiwan. His being from there would lead me to believe the odds are very strong that his suit was a knock off.

[TheDemonLord]

I always trust Arpine Star gear.

Much protect, Such price, Very legitimate

[DamianW]

Yep, the video shows a rider doing completely the opposite of what the coaches at CSS teach on day 1, being the job of the rider is to keep the bike stable. Loading/unloading the suspension through a corner indicates the rider has no basic knowledge. Pity really as most instructor-led handling skills courses and books from the likes of Hough, Lenatsch, Parks and the UK police riders handbook help build basic skill. It's laughable that many people will shell $$$ out for bikes and gear and begrudge investing in their ability to ride more competently.

[imdying]

Didn't appear to be doing anybody else any harm. Seen ten times more dangerous behaviour from reputedly good riders known to these forums. Few of them have even died as a result. But yes, let us all point and laugh and this guys poor throttle control, haw haw, he so bad derrrrrrrrrrrrrp.

[Mike.Gayner]

You're absolutely right DamianW, but I really don't know exactly what this rider was trying to achieve. To me it's intuitively obvious that jumping on and off the throttle is going to be a bad idea, and he was doing it in an almost comical way. Some people just shouldn't be allowed near a bike, but I would have much confidence in this individual in a car either - he seems to lack an understanding of basic physics that most of us infer just by existing on this planet.

[ckai]

But the bike sounds so cool going through the corner barpp barpping!

I like the slow-mo where you can see his head and chest going up and down through the corner. Fantastic viewing right their. Whoever said smooth is good was full of shit :lol:

PS. Get ya fucken head over!!! No, sorry, my fault. He is actually trying to get his head to the mirror. Clearly someone just forgot to tell him which one.

[Metastable]

There is a lot of fail in that video. However, that corner is diabolical..... there must be low levels of grip, because the vast majority of folks that either lose the front or the rear seem to do it almost at the same spot every time. I know they are showing off for the cameras.... and maybe don't have the best skills, but some of the crashes on that corner exit make me scratch my head, while others are obvious.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qSPP95zdCQ

That one comes to mind.... a bit too much throttle and he loses the front.... I think.

A bunch of almost crashes on this one... note how many on that same spot at corner exit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNcZyDSM6GI

[discotex]

848 looks/sounds like he adds throttle and lean at the same time. Unloaded and pushed the front.

In the second vid a lot of the slides are on a surface change.

[Metastable]

848 looks/sounds like he adds throttle and lean at the same time. Unloaded and pushed the front.

In the second vid a lot of the slides are on a surface change.

That's what I was thinking with the 848 too. I know these guys are showing off for the cameras and getting into trouble. However that corner is very unforgiving.... especially around that exit point. Lots of guys either losing the front or rear.

[skippa1]

Read the comments on the youtube page.
I went to, but 300 + comments from squidlys? No thanks. Bit of a stretch to claim the suit is a knock off because the guy comes from Taiwan, but hey it's the internets so it must be true.
Watched the vid a half dozen times. I see no suit fail.

[sil3nt]

I went to, but 300 + comments from squidlys? No thanks. Bit of a stretch to claim the suit is a knock off because the guy comes from Taiwan, but hey it's the internets so it must be true.
Watched the vid a half dozen times. I see no suit fail.I meant read the description on the video. Which I also quoted at the start of page 2.


Rider visiting from Taiwan gets to fully experience the famous turn that eats bikes most weekends. Fortunately just minor road rash and damage to a borrowed relatives R1. Also note, Alpine Stars textile suite he wore was worthless, ripped at seems, maybe a knock off, what textile suite comes with knee sliders?

Try read that again.

[Tigadee]

Hmmmmmmm, fella was in for a big surprise when he thought an R1 wouldn't handle any differently from the scooter he rode in Taiwan, aye?


Lucky to have got away with it a few times first.

Sadly, he probably thought he was doing it right because he got away with it a few times first, aye? :facepalm:


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To me it's intuitively obvious that jumping on and off the throttle is going to be a bad idea, and he was doing it in an almost comical way.

Why, he does that on his moped back home and it moves fine! :msn-wink: And the sound as a result drives the girls crazy!

[pritch]

Bit of a stretch to claim the suit is a knock off because the guy comes from Taiwan,

Why? There is a huge industry in Asia specialising in selling knock-offs. Shops full of movie DVDs, the quality can be crap but they are cheap. Clothing, when in Malaysia for testing this year Alex Briggs posted a photo of a shop selling rip-off T shirts, including his own then very recent "Wrench Racer" brand.

To be specific I didn't claim it was a knock off, just that "the odds were strong". And with the size of the counterfeit clothing industry in Asia that's not a psrticularly rash statement. Well, not by KB standards :whistle:

[TheDemonLord]

[QUOTE=pritch;1130711127And with the size of the counterfeit clothing industry in Asia that's not a psrticularly rash statement.[/QUOTE]

Heh

Cunning Punning

[Berries]

There is a huge industry in Asia specialising in selling knock-offs. Shops full of movie DVDs, the quality can be crap but they are cheap. Clothing, when in Malaysia for testing this year Alex Briggs posted a photo of a shop selling rip-off T shirts, including his own then very recent "Wrench Racer" brand.
I went to Sepang a few years back and got a good deal on an Alpinestar t-shirt, from a shop at the circuit no less. It wasn't until later that I realised the letter S was missing.

And it shrank in the wash.

[skippa1]

I meant read the description on the video. Which I also quoted at the start of page 2.



Try read that again.
Hey, absolutely, I didn't see that. If it's on the internet it must be right......sorry

[skippa1]

Why? There is a huge industry in Asia specialising in selling knock-offs. Shops full of movie DVDs, the quality can be crap but they are cheap. Clothing, when in Malaysia for testing this year Alex Briggs posted a photo of a shop selling rip-off T shirts, including his own then very recent "Wrench Racer" brand.

To be specific I didn't claim it was a knock off, just that "the odds were strong". And with the size of the counterfeit clothing industry in Asia that's not a psrticularly rash statement. Well, not by KB standards :whistle:
Even the genuine articles are made in Asia, does that make them knock offs? I don't care anyway, I just think that it's sensationalism based on assumption. But go ahead, fill your boots

[FJRider]

Even the genuine articles are made in Asia, does that make them knock offs? I don't care anyway, I just think that it's sensationalism based on assumption. But go ahead, fill your boots

Only an idiot would consider ... a company that is contracted (and paid) to manufacture/supply a product ... to be "Knockoffs" simply because of the region that company was situated in.

After having spent many years in that region ... I know that the counterfeit industry is not only alive and well ... but probably make more items than the company's licensed to produce them (in whatever country that is). And on a scale unimagined by most that have not been to the region.

And I'm willing to bet ... many "Big Note" companies wish it WAS sensationalism ... because they loose billions to that industry annually.

Don't believe me ??? ... I don't care ... but continue with your delusions anyway ...

[skippa1]

Only an idiot would consider ... a company that is contracted (and paid) to manufacture/supply a product ... to be "Knockoffs" simply because of the region that company was situated in.

After having spent many years in that region ... I know that the counterfeit industry is not only alive and well ... but probably make more items than the company's licensed to produce them (in whatever country that is). And on a scale unimagined by most that have not been to the region.

And I'm willing to bet ... many "Big Note" companies wish it WAS sensationalism ... because they loose billions to that industry annually.

Don't believe me ??? ... I don't care ... but continue with your delusions anyway ...
I don't doubt there are heaps of knockoffs, I have travelled extensively myself for pleasure and business, but what the fuckin hell are you blurting about? How do you make the connection between the guy dropping his bike and his safety gear beingcounterfeit? Holy shit, you guys want to get out a bit.....but again, it's on the youtube, it must be true.

[Tazz]

That bike looks counterfeit...stickers are 5 degrees off.

[Katman]

It wasn't until later that I realised the letter S was missing.


Superman took it.


Honest.

[sil3nt]

I don't doubt there are heaps of knockoffs, I have travelled extensively myself for pleasure and business, but what the fuckin hell are you blurting about? How do you make the connection between the guy dropping his bike and his safety gear beingcounterfeit? Holy shit, you guys want to get out a bit.....but again, it's on the youtube, it must be true.Probably because Alpinestars don't make a textile suit with knee sliders :rolleyes:

[skippa1]

Probably because Alpinestars don't make a textile suit with knee sliders :rolleyes:
Are you really sure about that?

[skippa1]

Probably because Alpinestars don't make a textile suit with knee sliders :rolleyes:
They do pants,
http://www.revzilla.com/product/alpinestars-a10-sport-leather-textile-pants

are you sure it was a one piece, or a two piece zipped together? What does the internet say?

[skippa1]

Oh yeah, I forgot,
:rolleyes: