chewing gum, and the edge of your tire

[bros400]

was going around a corner today, nice tight corner realy quite slowly, ie its realy tight so at 20k an hour or so you can get your foot pegs quite close to the ground..

Any way this time i put the bike down an quite a long way, and on the way around i picked up some chewing gum with the back tire... slid out a bit on the gum as i went around, tire picked back the traction quickly after but enough the bike droped down a resnable amount more than i had been expecting..


Funny how little tiny things like chewing gum can do that too you... a mate of mines friend came of due to a tin pie dish blowing across the road and under his front tire!!

Daniel

[hondacmx450]

least you did not come off and hurt yourself

[vifferman]

Funny how little tiny things like chewing gum can do that too you... a mate of mines friend came of due to a tin pie dish blowing across the road and under his front tire!!

Indeed.
My first bin in many years (no, not recently - a couple of years ago) was due to a squashed softdrink can on the road, exactly where my front tyre went when tipping into the corner. Being all flat, and having had all the nice painty stuff rubbed off, it was in StealthMode, and invisible at first glance.
The first I knew of it was when I was picking myself up after the lowside, and looked around to see why SluttyFartBlast (my VFR750) had suddenly thrown itself on the road.

Great.

One broken brake lever, one rashed fairing panel, one recovering rotator cuff re-injured, and one new Teknic jacket de-virginised, courtesy of a hole the size of 10cent piece in the sleeve.

Luckily (or not!) Slutty now had a taste for playing on the tarmac, and the next time a small piece of road flotsam* appeared, it eagerly threw itself into the game, doing a Proper Job this time, to the tune of about $4k worth of damage, so the previous fairing scrapes were repaired free of charge.




* The 'road flotsam' was in the form of a pedestrian lacking road savvy.
Almost ran over another one this morning - a workmate who was right in my path, but decided to step back rather than continue, just to make it more challenging for me.

[Fart]

Good to see that you are alright mate. You sure it was the gum?