Close call? Another 'OFC'.

[pritch]

I'm still over estimating corners.

I was doing that a lot (probably still am?). The thought would then occur to me that I coulda gone quicker. So next corner I'd try to be quicker. Not a good idea. Each corner needs to be judged in its own merits.

There is a corner on the road from Kaiawa to Orere Point, in the hills after you leave the sea, just near the tunnel houses, that caught me once. I straightened up and got on the brakes but ended up way over the wrong side of the road. Luckily nothing was coming but it made an impression and on my last trip up there I was watching for the corner some way before I got to it. Probably do the same next time too...

[Beemer]

WTF??'Fringes'? get your nomenclature right, they're not fringes, they're TASSLES! tassles, alright? Sheesh! :slap:

Pardon moi, one can see I have no actual experience of Harleydom. For that, I thank my lucky stars...

[**R1**]

Yeah mint ride yesterday, funny seeing the coppers chase that Hardly(they must have been fashion police) lost you guys at Kiakora so I stopped with Jase and had a munch at the fish and chip shop, and headed home.

Now I don't have a OFC story from yesterday but I do have a OFD story, now im a sports bike rider and aint in2 big long trips(yes 2hrs to Kiakora is long) so after some of the best fish n chips I have ever had, I decided to head home by myself (I normally end up riding by my self coz the rest of Chch riders are slow) anyways I decided to do the trip flat out, so b4 I left I bent my plate out of sight(not that I do this often) and headed on my way

just after I left the coast line I realized I really had to pee, so I cranked it up abit(as ya do) so im humming along quite nicely up around 255k when OFD.....Oh Fuck Dear Fuckn bambi had jumped a gate or snuck through a broken fence or some shit. and was chewing the grass on the side of the road with the rest of its mass ON THE ROAD now for some strange reason me hurtling at it at well over 200kph startled it, so it started leaping around the road, now for something that ends up as tasty meat pies those fuckers can really jump. so I jump on the brakes as hard as I dear(no pun intended) my butt, teeth, fists, eyes, bladder, were all clamped up tight as I must have done a 200m stoppy b4 finally stopping face to face with the stupid animal that just stood there(after thinking about it he may have been in shock) Normally I wouldn't bother with a big speal about something like that as I do have close calls now and again But this time I thought I was DEAD its by far the closest call I have had without actually crashing, and believe me if I had hit it, I (and bambi) would be DEAD or merged in2 some strange man/dear/Yamaha type apocalyptic beast, so no OFC for me yesterday just a fucken big flat spot on a near new front tire.

[Sniper]

Fuck mate. That doesnt sound good. Glad to hear you got home in one peice though

[froggyfrenchman]

i was caught out by a ofc corner, looked like a slight rise, you colud see the raod ahead. at top of rise doin bout 100, realised there was a very tight left than an equally sharp right. just got round the left. But was in wrong place to take the right hander..
Short trip in and ambulance, poke remnants of collar bone back into skin and a new bike before i got back on the road.

[**R1**]

WTF??'Fringes'? get your nomenclature right, they're not fringes, they're TASSLES! tassles, alright? Sheesh! :slap:

Tassles?? isnt that what girls have on there cowgirl jackets at a fancy dress party?

[sparrow_34]

Yeah, I got caught out coming back from Paeroa acouple of years ago. There is a shit of a corner coming back between Miranda and Clevedon. Its got a timber yard on it I think. The road is fairly twisty but not too tight, so I am fanging around a left hand bend and going quick enough to start scraping the pegs, thought I was going to be ok but then I see the road go hard left, nothing I could do I was touching down already, so I prayed nothing was coming the other way and stood it up and hit the picks. I manged to get it slowed down and then a little unceremoniously dumped it into the grass. Got away bloody lightly considering, small ding in the tank and some scraped up engine covers. While picking the bike up from this incident an MG convertible comes screaming around hanging it out, and I don't think it was intentional.

[Zed]

i have had a few, but i like to always know the road really well before i try fanging it

Same here, and I find that the more I ride a specific road the more confidence & enjoyment I gain by knowing it, SH22 & SH16 being classic examples in my experience.

It's those open roads that don't have the speed signs on the corners that you have to watch out for, and if you've never riden the road before you'd be wise to ride in cruise mode or desperately try and follow behind someone who does know the road!

[Lou Girardin]

16's only got one of those for me now, the 35 k left hander about half way along. But West Coast Rd through to Warkworth has a few. Luckily they're slow enough for a quick pick up - brake- lean in.

[Motu]

They go back to the dawn of time for me,a constant to base my riding experiance on.Riding a lot of gravel roads I get the oooooh fuck feeling several times a ride.For me,seal and gravel,it's corner entry that I overcook - I don't do the apex thing,I set my corners up early and it's the turn in where it all happens...go in too deep and I'm pushing the front mid corner,so,big breath and pucker the seat cover....

[Damon]

i've had a few OFC's but the only one i really poo'd my self on was one on the napier taupo road, just after the lookout on a down hill lefthander, i was following my father on his VFR750 and i was on the trusty CBR 2fiddy and we both hit the corner to fast and just kept drifting out untill we were on the wrong side, no cars luckily and the rest of the ride was great.

The worse one i know of is on the road from Mangitawhiri (the castle) to Miranda on the way to Thames, just after the Mangitangi firestation and before the school there's a left hander there with no signs and it's sooo much tighter than it looks, i've been caught out a couple of times in the cage and really weary of it now, i know of heaps of people that have f@#ked it up first time through

[Monsterbishi]

Only OFC I've ever had was about 9 maybe 10 years ago now, on my CB250RS, coming back from Picton to Blenheim, absent mindedly going into a 55 bend at 85...

Ended up on the other side of the road, thankfully no cars to be found.

[Oakie]

Yep. Had one of those 20 odd years back an it's still vivid in my memory. I still have the photo of the bike at the end of a long skid mark on the wrong side of the road a couple of metres short of the cliff to prove it too. Otago Peninsula. Hurled over the top of a rise to find a sharp left hander taking the road away from the cliff that took it's place. I was looking at the photo a week or so back. I'll post it sometime when I hook the scanner up.

[Jackrat]

I lived out at Naike on 22 from 82-85 an rode it heaps.
Odd thing is both times I parked in the ditch the corners weren't really hairy ones at all.
Just crap riding huh.
Anyway the one KB ride I went on down there I followed two different riders and watching both of them coming up to nasty corners I know well, I backed off a bit to set up for them an watched as the brake lights came on mid corner every time.It wasn't a fun thing to watch but both of them were good enough riders to not really over cook it.
It hasn't happened to me by suprise for a fair while now because I've become more carefull with time but when I do over do it it tends to happen on a corner I know but have just found my limit on.

[SPman]

--- but in my experience those boards dont always reflect the correct speed for the corner.

They do if you're driving an Austin A40!...