Hey, just thought id share my nut-cracking experience today!
Finally it was dry enough to go out for a blat in my new leathers! YAY! and find out the positions for the knee sliders exactly and how the babys feel!
So off me, Shaede, and kerran went for an Old north road ride... and shit me! i can actually move in these leathers! I used to think it took some skill to get knee down and that it took some effort - but no sir! i can stretch off so far now it just makes the job too easy that maybe it will get boring very soon!
but anyway, after repositioning the sliders so they hit in the middle mostly, i had pulled voer to do this and talked to the boys... didnt realise how bad the dirt/mud i was standing it must have been! so off i toodle to go touch these fullahs and what happens in the first right hand slow corner?.. you already know dont you? well im bored and will tell you anyway!...
Come in, position myself-on my tippie toes to outside of peg, poke the slider towards the ground and bring her down for a smooth landing... but just as she knocked the hard surface WHOOPMH! off came my right foot, the jerk of it sent the bike into a mid-corner wobble and shook my outside foot off the peg too, so it started shaking the head like mad from my uneven pulling on the bars(due to fully loosing footing!) and i went wide trying to control it and onto the gravel i went (guestimate 60kmph? dunno, will have to check next time i go around it)... shes belting and shaking around whilst all i am sitting on in the leaned forward and falling off position is my soft spot... shit me it was painful and i went off into gravel JUST missing a road stick marker thingy with my mirror and onto the mud i slide, down across a little creeky thing and whack an almighty big hole in the ground! This was it... i think i just about threw up in my helmet but the only thing stoping me was the fact that i was too busy trying to concentrate on not touching brakes and going for a motorcross mission!... it finally came to a stop after god knows how long... i was trying to take deep breaths but found it hard trying to prop bike up still between legs without slipping over in the mud htat surrounded me... 30seconds later shaede comes around the corner - i give him the thumbs up and apparently he was thinking "whats that wolly doing parking off the road that far?!" or something like that! Anyways no damage to the bike and shaede helped push it out of the mudhole it was stuck in and let me catch my breath - and recover from the experience. Only damamge was to my right knee of my new leathers! as i slipped off the bike touching knee i fell onto the road alongside the bike and garked up the leather on the knee itself
Luckily nothing too serious and ive cleaned it up mostly already and a bit of nuget should do the trick...
feck it was lucky! i swear the second i went onto the gravel edge of road i SO though it was all over...not just for my more tender parts either!
All is working well now anyway and ive come out all the wiser... i now try and clean my boots and rub them on the pegs to get grip - any other good techniques?
Thanks for reading this guys and any advise on reducing peg slippage would be much appreciated.
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