Poll: Crash preference: Lose the front or rear ?

[JayRacer37]

Wheres the options for "crashing, but saving it"???
it does happen, adn the rear is much easier to catch...but falling off thru a hi-side sucks.
My worst Hi-side was a front end tuck that hooked up and threw me fowareds like Drew said. you just can't win...all crashes are not cool.

Anything that lets you go off the low side, front or rear, is preferable.

Tucking the front at hi lean is weird...Last time i did it (bar HTDboys bike - that wasnt a crash..... )i was scraping my elbow already (yes, a little bit showboating, and a little bit experimenting), and the front walked away from me. it only changed angle of lean by a few degrees by falling over, but i dont consider i crashed it till i got bounced off at the gravel, i was still on it, still had my knee and elbow on the deck and looking up the track, but it never came back, i never managed to prop it up again.

[Goblin]

A crash, is a crash, is a crash.

And no matter how tough ya think ya are, it still effing hurts!

[moT]

Whatever option is least expencive

[Maido]

usually I land on my head to save my body getting hurt.

[Drew]

I have recently been surprised, as to what can actually be saved, PMCC race at Taupo, I was sure it was all over a minimum of six times, and somehow managed to ride out of it, so I can understand when you say you didn't think it was crash till you hit the gravel Jay. Even the front sliding its way accross the track on the first lap, is retrievable, with a bit wieght shifting, and not losing ones head. The rear going is different, cos if you shut the gas off too quick, you get off altogether, but if you eas it off too slow, the result is similar. Shit of an idea this falling off thing, way too many variables to have a hand book written for it.

[SPman]

Both my saves have been the rear going out and they were on the road! Sheer blind luck, I reckon.
Both my major bins have been front end biased and I got good air time!.
Personally, I'd much rather not lose either end, but then, I'm old and past it and it f**kin hurts!

Even the front sliding its way across the track on the first lap, is retrievable,with a bit weight shifting, and not losing ones head

makes life interesting though.....really kicks the adrenaline levels up.

[Buster]

Well if i had a choice then it would be losing the front. No highsides for me thanks.

[MVnut]

You gotta be kidding, right.........

[Drew]

makes life interesting though.....really kicks the adrenaline levels up.

Oh hell yes, first time it happened, i'm sure I was a bit wide eyed by it, but the next race, I had a huge grin on, and was amped, that I knew it was gonna happen, and I still went in that hot, knowing I'd most likely make it round. I was however, considerably slower in the second race, after a massive near high side rear end slide, then riding off the track into the kittie litter.

[avgas]

Scar photo time?

[deanohit]

lost the front once already,so would prefere to lose the back next.

[Chickadee]

I've had experience of both and didn't enjoy.

I found loosing the front (tyre just didn't grip on a greasy corner) was the lesser of the two. Just me and the bike slid off gracefully and stopped. Luckily nothing in the other lane at the time. I ended up on the median strip, and the bike in the other lane.

When lost the back I nearly superwomaned over the front into oncoming traffic (again corner, lots of gravel and stones, didn't set myself up in time for the corner and it went pear shaped quick). Caught a big chucky stone on the back wheel and the bike just didn't like that at all, nearly high sided that time but managed to pull her back for the lesser of two evils (low siding and hitting my left shoulder on the deck).

I could ride away from bin number 2, but did less damage to the bike in bin number 1.

So which ways less ouchy, guess it depends on your particular senario but I still prefer not to bin at all really.

[Antipigs]

well ive never managed to put a road bike down on the ground.. touch wood... but in moto x its was always a lot less painful to loose the rear end other than the front.. every time i lost the front i broke a bone somewhere and my bike always looked a lil bit more 2nd hand

[Mental Trousers]

Haven't broken bones by losing the rear ....

[Black Bandit]

Sadly I'm not qualified to participate in the poll on a personal level. I've not attended a full semester at the "School of Hard Knocks" yet - well only on gravel at low speed. That was low side after losing the front, but looking at racing accidents on the tube, it would seem that high sides after losing the rear are the greater of two evils.