Questions you're too embarrassed to ask

[XP@]

Ok so when you watch your mate hit a wall at 160km per hour and get totally frecked out by it..

What is the best way to get over that when i keeps replaying in your mind??

Just go and ride the next day on no sleep and go hard with new tyres that need a good scrubbing.. or just chill???

It will replay for a long long time.

Learn from his / her mistakes and improve your riding so you can minimise the chance of it happening to you.

So ride the next day but don't go hard out, instead try and ride like an old man. (if you watch someone who has been riding for the last 50 years, they must be doing something right, otherwise they would be a hood ornament)

[ManDownUnder]

Ok so when you watch your mate hit a wall at 160km per hour and get totally frecked out by it..

What is the best way to get over that when i keeps replaying in your mind??

Just go and ride the next day on no sleep and go hard with new tyres that need a good scrubbing.. or just chill???

Just chill - take it easy and learn from it. Keep riding, but listen a little when that "twinge" of fear hits you. Going too slow around a corner is forgivable, going too fast isn't... those damned laws of physics keep gettin' in the way. Not to mention trees, gravel rash and the insurnace co...!

It's your mate I'd also be worried about...

[Drum]

Have you sat your test yet Astolat?

[Unit:Me]

What to do when you get a flat tyre?
Take helmet off, shake hair loose provocatively, unzip jacket to show clevage. Should work

[Bonez]

What to do when you get a flat tyre?
Take helmet off, shake hair loose provocatively, unzip jacket to show clevage. Should work

[M1CRO:Me]

What to do when you get a flat tyre?
Take helmet off, shake hair loose provocatively, unzip jacket to show clevage. Should work

And for those without cleavage, I guess we have to do it the old fashioned way

[twist]

I've hit false neutral a few times for sure, usually, engage clutch, change gear, but before I've finished, I've let the clutch out and it gets stuck halfway.

Clutchless shifting gets rid of it and gives you better acceleration...

What is the story with clutchles shifting? I have a go-kart with a motorbike engine and it would be craploads easier to shift without worrying about the clutch. If going full noise is a requirement i already have that one covered :P

[quallman1234]

What is the story with clutchles shifting? I have a go-kart with a motorbike engine and it would be craploads easier to shift without worrying about the clutch. If going full noise is a requirement i already have that one covered :P

Its simple as man.
You usually wanna change gear when you have a postive throttle right?

The easy way to do it is roll of the throttle a little bit but still have some on, then change up a gear.
No problems!
Your get the hang of it.

With down shift's it would pay to use the clutch as your probably lock the back wheels under compression lock for half a second.

[TOTO]

Here are my latest questions:


1.
When people go to the track and race their normally road bikes they put some kind of black tape on the lights and the screeen. whats this stuff for? Seen in magazines and pics on KB? Can anyone answer ?

2.
when you are riding at night and on the road there is a possum what do you do? Toningt I had my first country night ride and nearly got a bin 3 times in a distance of 8km because of the bloody possums. lucky I was riding with 60 so I could swerve but at a 100 what showld I do ?


thanks


TOTO

[chanceyy]

Here are my latest questions:


1.
When people go to the track and race their normally road bikes they put some kind of black tape on the lights and the screeen. whats this stuff for? Seen in magazines and pics on KB? Can anyone answer ?
tape is put across the lens as in a crash it will stop glass going everywhere & holds it together, at a track day today would have seen it just about on all bikes .. dedicated race bikes have it removed permanently

2.
when you are riding at night and on the road there is a possum what do you do? Toningt I had my first country night ride and nearly got a bin 3 times in a distance of 8km because of the bloody possums. lucky I was riding with 60 so I could swerve but at a 100 what showld I do ?

do not swerve do not brake hard .. ride straight & if you hit it you will be ok ... discussed this today as I had a rabbit run in front of me on the track ... & this prompted this kinda discussion with more experienced riders..


thanks


TOTO

any experienced riders feel free to correct me above

[madandy]

Get off the saddle a little, standing on foot pegs, to centralise & lower your Centre of Gravity(like they teach on good riding courses) & ride right over the filthy bastards...

[DEATH_INC.]

I have only once experienced this and it happened to be on a XJ750 and I was doing around 150km on a country road.

My mate wrote his one off when it did this at 180k....farkin impressive length to the scrape marks up the road, musta been at least 200 meters before he went into the ditch...

[DEATH_INC.]

anyone got tips for riding on gravel/fist sized stones? not overly confident on either. a close friend has the fist stones for a drive way, and also gravel at the end of his road. i know enough to relax my grip on the bars and let them go where they need rather than try and control them, but what else is handy to know?

I agree with Motu on this one, stand up and get some speed up, relax and let the bike do what it wants (they're actually pretty smart) and you'll be sweet, don't grab big handfuls of brake though, be gentle and use the rear more than usual though it will slide a bit. Speed is the trick though, don't go too slow.

[Jorja]

No Mr Death Inc. If this were anywhere else in the world I would agree.
This is New Zealand.
First stop your bike by all and any means possible. Second get off your bike and assist the poor furry creature (who is probably suffering from post traumatic stress syndrome) Third wright a letter of explaination as to why you were riding your dangerous contraption on the road endangering these poor creatures.

[riffer]

Could be worse Jorja. You run over a possum in Aussie you're in a power of shit.