The story of a young fella thinking he's god and the lowside that followed

**skidMark** · 31st August 2006, 15:53

hopped on my bike this morning.... warmed it up and all that took her out down the drive left at the end of the street and up the hill thought hmmm ill go see if my mates at the bus stop....since i had a bit of time to kill....

so i downshifted from 3 to what i thought was 2nd ....ended up in first....back wheel locked up and started juddering along . due to the hard engine braking....as far as i remember i brought on the revs a bit which got it out of the juddering by this time i'm starting to enter the corner, a right hander ....and i went sweet ill go for it as the rear was ok ....leaned her over and all i can figure is i hit the "powerband" revs and the bars went hard right and down she went... i've got a new rear tyre put on 2 days ago

had it scrubbed alot of the way.....

in summary it was cold tyres (happened 50 metres from home) to much psi in tyres (set by bike shop) hitting the slippery unscrubbed part of the tyres ...a crappy downshift....

and me being a useless rider.

one word....

BUGGER

so yeah bike fine broken front brake lever and a few more scratches on the fairing

main damage is my bruised ego.

Cheers:SM

**Lil_Byte** · 31st August 2006, 16:03

Don't you hate it when that happens

**skidMark** · 31st August 2006, 16:06

i deserved that i guess speedie

**Sniper** · 31st August 2006, 16:07

At least you arent dead

**skidMark** · 31st August 2006, 16:08

yeah sniper i know alot of people wish i was

**TLDV8** · 31st August 2006, 16:17

I can feel the love in this thread slipping at an alarming rate..

Continental Attacks warm up in a blink but you still have to have some respect on cold tyres...... but you know that now.Remember a simple thing like dumping the bike at low speed doesn't seem so bad,slide across into the other lane and things can change very quickly for the worse.

**dawnrazor** · 31st August 2006, 16:17

ah the "cold tyres, damp road and brown pants" syndrome

**BNZ** · 31st August 2006, 16:18

bummer man. Shows you how easy that shit can happen

**SwanTiger** · 31st August 2006, 16:22

Bummer Mark, that bike is far beyond your capabilities, time to buy back that GN 250 me thinks

**Kornholio** · 31st August 2006, 16:25

Originally Posted by skidMark

i deserved that i guess speedie

Pretty much what Speedie said....you dont listen to other people do you Mark, you wouldnt know good advice if it jumped up and kicked you in the head

**Maha** · 31st August 2006, 16:26

Done the same yesterday....well almost, thought i was in 3rd and clicked it down......into 1st

the rear did a little fox trot, was kinda amusing really...
Was taking it up for a service and to get the new can put on, shame on me if i had to push it the rest of the way....

**Crazy Steve** · 31st August 2006, 16:28

Originally Posted by skidMark

yeah sniper i know alot of people wish i was

Learn from it young Jedi...

And next time use the forks.....

Crazy Steve.

**skelstar** · 31st August 2006, 16:28

Thats tough mate.
Ive accidentally changed down when I should be changing up (I got the dumb), but wasnt going around a corner and just dealt.

**Ixion** · 31st August 2006, 16:29

Fair's fair - Mark's fronted up here and admited he stuffed up. That's a good start on the road to wisdom. He could have just kept his mouth shut.

Shit happens, I've seen posts from riders of umpty years experience relating how they lost it on cold tyres. or on the ubiquitous gravel. I nearly lost the front wheel m'self on a gravel patch last night. It can happen to any one.

At least Mark isn't demanding that someone put up a sign to stop him crashing.

Learn from your mishap, grasshopper, and move on.

**TLDV8** · 31st August 2006, 16:35

Originally Posted by Ixion

Shit happens, I've seen posts from riders of umpty years experience relating how they lost it on cold tyres. or on the ubiquitous gravel. I nearly lost the front wheel m'self on a gravel patch last night. It can happen to any one.