2 important lessons learned today

**Aitch** · 14th August 2005, 16:18

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** · 14th August 2005, 16:23

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

**Warr** · 14th August 2005, 16:25

Originally Posted by 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!

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

**Aitch** · 14th August 2005, 16:26

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** · 14th August 2005, 16:27

Originally Posted by Warr

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** · 14th August 2005, 16:31

Originally Posted by Aitch

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** · 14th August 2005, 21:59

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** · 15th August 2005, 09:11

Originally Posted by Aitch

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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** · 15th August 2005, 09:37

Originally Posted by Krayy

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

**inlinefour** · 15th August 2005, 12:32

Originally Posted by onearmedbandit

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

**Hitcher** · 15th August 2005, 12:41

Originally Posted by Aitch

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** · 15th August 2005, 13:08

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** · 15th August 2005, 13:27

been there, done that, got the medical certificate.

**enigma51** · 15th August 2005, 13:45

Originally Posted by Aitch

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** · 21st August 2005, 21:22

Originally Posted by 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.

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