What happens when HP exceeds IQ

[XTC]

one other thing you may have learned is to set your alarm clock earlier??
Works for me.... Takes the being late bit out of the equation

[Gen]

It really was only a matter of time... sooner or later... it was, in the immortal e-mail of one of our senior managers when told - "predictable"

Yes, late for work, in a foul mood, I left my driveway, poured on the gas to the first corner. Leaning into the 90 deg left I look up, see no traffic and wind on a bit of throttle... actually I wound on a lot of throttle. Back tyre, having had roughly 50m to warm up, lights up and about, oh say 0.2 secs later the bike goes down... on me.

On a philosophical level I believe it is very important to live life with no regrets. When you make mistakes, you take those mistakes, extract the data and turn them into a positive learning experience. So what did I learn from yesterday?

1. TSS in the Hutt are fan-farking-tastic. They picked up the bike, took it back to their workshop, gave it a good going over, got me some prices and even delivered it home when I decided to do the grunt work myself
2. Kawasaki do no have any left hand clip-ons in NZ, but if I wanted to wait 3 weeks it would cost $99 for the bar, and $147 for the bracket
3. I have no patience
4. F1 Engineering in Hamilton sell complete clip on sets (left & right) for $160. And they also are fan-farking-tastic by ensuring that they are on the courier to be delivered to my doorstep tomorrow morning
5. Tyres require a certain operating temperature to handle vicious and unnecessary use of the throttle
6. A bike can slide a fair distance down a road without breaking either front or rear indicator
7. My brain does not function prior to 9am
8. Boots/Armoured Pants/Gloves. If you ride without any of these, you are dumber than me. You can slide and roll quite nicely down the road without touching either helmet or jacket
9. It takes 6 text messages before my girlfriend asks how badly hurt I was
10. It was the 3rd question my workmate asked (after spending the first two explaining to her what "binned the fucking bastard" means)

Yes, doesn't my ego feel extra friggin large today!

So bring it on, fellas and fellesess... I think I deserve it for this one.

Sends a sloppy kiss

[SPman]

Now...if you'd just read one of Coldkiwi's earlier posts, you could have read how Richard did the very same thing..........

[Ms Piggy]

On a philosophical level I believe it is very important to live life with no regrets. When you make mistakes, you take those mistakes, extract the data and turn them into a positive learning experience. So what did I learn from yesterday?

That's brilliant that you're able to learn from this. Glad you and the bike are still both living to tell the tale.

[Skyryder]

If ya don't learn ya die. You'll live forever.

Skyryder

[WINJA]

WHAT TYRES DO YOU HAVE , IVE GONE BACK TO THE OE BRIDGESTONES ON MY GSXR1000, I CAN WARM THE BIKE UP IN MY GARAGE TAKE IT OUT IN THE POURING RAIN AN IT WILL STAND UP UNDER POWER, IT WOULD SPIN BUT NOT MUCH , DIFFERENT STORY ON DIABLO THOUGH, OH WELL SHIT HAPPENS.
IVE PUT A LOT OF BIKES DOWN THE ROAD AND MY ATTITUDE IS IF I CAN WALK AWAY AND GO TO WORK I CAN BUY ANOTHER ONE.I PUT A NEW GSXR1000K3 DOWN THE ROAD , 2 WEEKS OLD NO INSURANCE AND I DIDNT WORRY A BIT .

[Gremlin]

If you're soo eager to "give" away bikes, how about giving one away to a poor needy student??

I wouldn't be nearly as greedy as a litre (it would have a bigger drinking problem than me...), just a nice 250...

[Rainbow Wizard]

When is there ever unnecessary use of the throttle???
I can't seem to picture any scenarios.

Only I wasn't agro and the tyres were hot AND sticky; but yes, I can only attribute pushing the back wheel out from under me to over-exuberant use of the throttle. I was squared up out of the hairpin but not vertical enough to handle the power that le Voxan unleashes in a low gear. Trying to go too fast too soon. I repaired the footrest today but had to pull far too much apart before I could even remove it from the mounting point.

Anybody got a Duc or Brembo clutch lever surplus to requirements?

Taranaki Rural riders bash at Tahora this weekend, maybe I should cheat and take the XK8 instead, at least they don't fall over unless you try REALLY hard!

[Sensei]

WHAT TYRES DO YOU HAVE , IVE GONE BACK TO THE OE BRIDGESTONES ON MY GSXR1000, I CAN WARM THE BIKE UP IN MY GARAGE TAKE IT OUT IN THE POURING RAIN AN IT WILL STAND UP UNDER POWER, IT WOULD SPIN BUT NOT MUCH , DIFFERENT STORY ON DIABLO THOUGH, OH WELL SHIT HAPPENS.
IVE PUT A LOT OF BIKES DOWN THE ROAD AND MY ATTITUDE IS IF I CAN WALK AWAY AND GO TO WORK I CAN BUY ANOTHER ONE.I PUT A NEW GSXR1000K3 DOWN THE ROAD , 2 WEEKS OLD NO INSURANCE AND I DIDNT WORRY A BIT .

WINJA HAD THEM ON MINE WHEN BROUGHT IT VERY GOOD TYRE .BUT HAVE
PUT METZLER'S ON AS THEY ARE MY TYRE OF CHOICE M1 FRONT & Z6 BACK
HAVE JUST CHANGED BACK 7000K OF HARD RIDING SO EXCELLENT K'S FROM THE GSXR
SENSEI

[MrMelon]

Yikes, the capitals are contagious!

[Wonko]

Like riffer said, it's all inthe way you land/slide. In my crash with an old flatmate on the back, he rolled along the ground where I slid along the ground on my back. At the end of it, he was battered and bruised a lot more than me, and his helmet had a lot more abbrassions on it.

[madboy]

Yeah, I slid a bit, then did maybe one or two rolls, but nothing dramatic. I wouldn't say I'm keen to run on the ankle yet, but it's heaps better. The wrist is still a pain, literally, and I'm such a bad patient I keep forgetting that it's not up to par and so do really normal things with it before the pain cuts in and reminds me that I'm still a dumbass.

For those out there who think I tortured the poor cold motor, actually it had been running a good couple of minutes before taking off - thanks to picking two right hand gloves up on my way out the door. And it wasn't a full throttle jobbie anyway - only too much partial. Get the feeling the day just wasn't gonna go my way? Kinda glad I binned it on the first corner, it coulda got a lot uglier given the usual speed I travel to work at once onto the mway.

And to sum up the bike fixing, well not only have I not had time to get anywhere near it on the weekend, I also managed to get kicked in the head (no, I said the bike wasn't fixed yet so I couldn't have been caught doing a runner could I??? perfectly innocent story behind that one) and now it's school holidays so I don't fancy my chances of getting near the bike at all!

But the new bars from F1 Engineering look damn fine - and they turned up on time

[Coldkiwi]

Now...if you'd just read one of Coldkiwi's earlier posts, you could have read how Richard did the very same thing..........

EXACTLY!

dude, I did the same thing with my two week old gsxr in 2003, but I only gave my tyres 10m to warm up. did you get the big piroette around the front wheel happenign as well?? One of my biggest regrets was that neither of the oncoming cars had cameras!

[WINJA]

WINJA HAD THEM ON MINE WHEN BROUGHT IT VERY GOOD TYRE .BUT HAVE
PUT METZLER'S ON AS THEY ARE MY TYRE OF CHOICE M1 FRONT & Z6 BACK
HAVE JUST CHANGED BACK 7000K OF HARD RIDING SO EXCELLENT K'S FROM THE GSXR
SENSEI

7000K , FUCK I DONT GET 2000K OUT OF ANY TYRE.
HOPE YOUVE CHECKED YOUR STEARING HEAD BEARINGS

[Motu]

I too did a similar thing many years ago - I commuted all year in the rain,wearing my wet weather gear everyday...the first day of spring dawned bright and clear,it was my birthday and I was feeling pretty good.I was running race compound Michelins and tossed it down on the first corner of the morning.