Bailed on the motorway

[motorbyclist]

Nah, wasnt the metal I was over, so must have been something else

Kenda tyres, and/or standing water mixed with oil freshly washed off the bridge.

[Danae]

Kenda tyres, and/or standing water mixed with oil freshly washed off the bridge.

Stir vigorously for ten minutes and bake at 180C for an hour


Delicious

[Real_Wolf]

yeah, I think my kenda tyre, despite seeming like it has plenty of tread, is actually really crap. Add to that some lovely standing water (apparently there wa standing water at the base of the bridge on that day, not necessarily when I went past but there would be some risidual oil which comes up through the tarmac too), and possible oil/diesel (I blame bus's. Once saw a line of oil going from the top of rangatira road all the way to the motorway, caught up to the bus there and saw it was what was leaking all this oil)

[Ixion]

take a look at that tyre and see if it says "NYLON" on it. If it does, you have your answer.

[Dare]

take a look at that tyre and see if it says "NYLON" on it. If it does, you have your answer.

It did look like an el cheapo stuck on by previous owned to sell...

Hey Wade, I think we need to get you to a track, pretty sure riding about in relatively safe conditions would help you heaps on the road... You do ride pretty agressively after all (=

[Real_Wolf]

:P, I think i've done bloody well considering it was a ~90kph crash on an auckland motorway (that was very busy too).

Still need to find a place with a spare footpeg / fxr wingmirror, then its paint the weld for my tank, find a bolt for the tank, rebore the front indicator holes (including the one on the right which has a damn water tank in the way, so gotta take the fairings off to get to it), and replace the plugs in the indicators with the new ones

[Dare]

It was a ~90kph crash on an auckland motorway (that was very busy too).

Need I say more?

[Dare]

PS. Gimme a yell if you want help with any of that, hols get boring fast.
...That's why I'm on KB >.>

[Real_Wolf]

if ya want you can cmoe help take the fairings off and bore out the indicator holes

[xwhatsit]

take a look at that tyre and see if it says "NYLON" on it. If it does, you have your answer.

Rubbish. I had a King's Tyre for like ~30,000kms that never even got close to showing any wear. Excellent value for money.



Dude, how the hell do you fall off like that? Is it EJ Mk.II? It's a perfectly-finished, dead-smooth piece of hotmix tarmac. I can never understand you guys. I chuck my ancient piece of crap around with no damping (or much springing) left in the rear twinshocks, 14psi in rear tyre (true story), flexing front forks, complete unskilled rider... yet it's people like you, on a well-specced stable modern bike who manage to fall off at a sedate 90kph.

I'd be real worried if I couldn't figure out why I crashed.

[jrandom]

Dude, how the hell do you fall off like that?

Sometimes the gods of motorcycling give gentle hints that certain people should stick to driving cars.

It's funny how often those hints get ignored.

[Real_Wolf]

I know why I crashed, my back wheel tried to overtake my front. Its how it decided to do that thats the difficult question

[Dare]

I know why I crashed, my back wheel tried to overtake my front. Its how it decided to do that thats the difficult question

I'd suggest replaying the scene in your head until you have your answer, otherwise there is always a chance it will happen again.

My guess is you werent smooth, suddenly changing weight distribution, direction, braking, clutch or throttle can all have this effect. Combined with bad tyres and oil that sounds like the answer... If you were riding sensibly for the conditions the front tyre would have let go first when you ran over the oil I think.

Your bike is modern enough and in goodish condition, unless your tyres are actually lethal that shouldn't have happened.

[Real_Wolf]

playing it through, i was completely smooth, was just that minor lean of changing lanes then the straightening up.

And the fact that I was going at an angle could mean my tyre went over anything, the bumpity bumpity things between lanes, etc, though I wasn't leaning nearly enough that that should have been an issue

[Dare]

playing it through, i was completely smooth, was just that minor lean of changing lanes then the straightening up.

And the fact that I was going at an angle could mean my tyre went over anything, the bumpity bumpity things between lanes, etc, though I wasn't leaning nearly enough that that should have been an issue

I avoid lines and the bumpity things, slippery little shee-its. I even try and avoid them in cars, that's even more fun! Good for learning wheel positioning.

Seriously though ALWAYS scan the road for oil/paint/bumps/anything, if you don't know what you went over it's hardly suprising you came off! The last time i'll agree the surface was reflective to the point of not seeing paint but this isn't that time.