Deviant Esq's first bin (14 July)

**Biff** · 14th July 2007, 23:28

Glad you're ok dude. Lesson learnt, onwards and upwards etc.

**xwhatsit** · 15th July 2007, 00:20

Oh shit man, sorry to hear that. It won't happen again though, so don't worry

Losing your concentration can really fark things up for you, you suddenly find yourself in the wrong position at the wrong speed and unprepared. That's the situations I tend to find myself clenching my arse about, it's rare I ride close enough to the limit to get myself into those situations with my wits still with me. I'm sure if you went into that corner again at 105kph all calm-like with it fore-planned you'd be quite happy about it.

The rear brake thing is funny. I assume it's a drum rear brake as well? I find with mine, at least, that it'll go right to the limit, but once it grabs, it seems to grab rather stickily and doesn't want to let go. So if you hit some gravel and it locked then (easy enough) it might have just stuck. Drum brakes are apparently prone to doing this, might be an elliptical drum or something mechanical, but probably just a heavy foot with gravel and panicked reactions.

No need to feel like a twat. None of us here (apart from me, of course) can ride like Hailwood anyway

**Nasty** · 15th July 2007, 09:03

Does not sound like fun ... I am really glad you are ok ... the bike itself will live and that is good .. but its the you we can't replace

**Ghost_Bullet** · 15th July 2007, 10:11

Sounds semi spectatcular and your a lucky bugger...

**xwhatsit** · 15th July 2007, 10:44

Originally Posted by Ghost_Bullet

Sounds semi spectatcular and your a lucky bugger...

Heheh, you're right you know, if you're going to crash (we're talking walk-away here) you might as well do it with some aplomb

Crossed up across the road and just missing a mailbox -- where's the Youtube vid?

My crash, running wide on a corner, was nowhere near as exciting. I do however count my first bump start as spectacular

**Kinje** · 15th July 2007, 10:55

Stink one. Glad you could ride away from it. Lucky you or the bike didn't hit anything too hard. Hope the bike gets straightened out quick and you're back up and away.

**FruitLooPs** · 15th July 2007, 20:19

Glad to hear you're sorted. I went for a ride today with the dude on the BMW 1100 to diamond harbour, sounds like you overcooked it a bit. I know I've done that on the RG when I first went riding out to akaroa.

Got overconfident, most of those corners you can fly round but the odd one isn't quite what the posted signage reckons (at least compared to ones with the same sign). On a 55 around there I froze after taking it wide, barely held it and rode the very edge of the road outside the white line lol.

Just gotta learn to not tense up, easier said than done though eh? I still do very occasionally, it seems so counter intuitive to apply throttle but you really do railroad straight on the brakes huh!

OAB sounds like he had some puckering up moments too. Glad he didn't bust up the purrdy gixxer.

**Spuds1234** · 15th July 2007, 22:04

Glad your ok man.

I think everyone here as locked the rear brake at one point or another and have learnt from it. You unfortunatly had to learn a bit harder than most of us the first time around.

You probably wont do it again though (hell I had 2 crashes and 1 near miss in the same situation while locking the rear tyre before I learnt). Your probably smarter than me lol.

Best of luck getting the bike fixed and stay safe out on the road.

Next time you see me, toot your horn and wave or something. Its aways nice to see friendly cars on the road. You know the ones you dont have to worry about crashing into you.

**TygerTung** · 16th July 2007, 01:21

G'day,

Good to see you had a crash, you have to have them every once in a while otherwise you're doing somthing wrong.

I crash all the time, crashed a couple of weeks ago testing out my front brake, and when a ten inch wheel locks up, you go down REALLY fast!

I reckon that your rear locking up could have somthing to do with that bauld as hard old rear tyre I was looking at when you came out to the track, it's ALWAYS worth it to have good tyres, I brought the best tyres I could get for my scooter, it's just worth it eh.

Good to see you arn't hurt, make sure you ALWAYs wear the proper gear so you don't get too munted when you bail off!

**Kendog** · 16th July 2007, 06:31

Originally Posted by TygerTung

Good to see you had a crash, you have to have them every once in a while otherwise you're doing somthing wrong.

I think you have this completely backwards

If you crash you have done something wrong. Not crashing is a good thing.

Originally Posted by TygerTung

I reckon that your rear locking up could have somthing to do with that bauld as hard old rear tyre I was looking at when you came out to the track, it's ALWAYS worth it to have good tyres, I brought the best tyres I could get for my scooter, it's just worth it eh.

Now that is good advice.

**Deviant Esq** · 16th July 2007, 09:26

Yeah, I know, I've considered replacing that for a while now, it can't have helped... but it's more to do with the rear drum brake locking and refusing to unlock than the tyre. I'll probably include it in the list of things I'm going to give to the mechanics anyway though, when I ask for a quote on how much it'll cost to fix it up. I'd hoped to get away with not replacing it and it just lasting me until I got my full and sold the bike... maybe not! It'll help me the last few months of my restricted anyway since I refuse to ride like a nana!

Ixion sent me a good PM loaded with information about drum brakes. Long story short, he says get it serviced and put new shoes in it, or it will lock up again should an emergency situation arise.

Now that I'm getting an idea of how much needs to be done to the bike I think an insurance claim might be necessary

Fork seals
Rear brake reconditioned
New rear tyre, old one is flat spotted
New clutch lever (may need to be after market)
New rear indicators
Rear plastics repaired / replaced

Anyone got recommendations of who I should take it to, in Christchurch? I was going to use Trevor Pearce unless someone knows of someone better. I'm going to ride it whereever as it's still rideable, with the taped up clutch lever and all...

**The Lone Rider** · 16th July 2007, 11:35

Want to see if I can get that lever welded back on for you? Better then tape!

**TygerTung** · 16th July 2007, 11:36

I always find that KG motorcycle services is good, although he is a little bit slow due to him being very busy at all times.

**Chickadee** · 16th July 2007, 13:00

Hey D

Glad to hear it wasn't a major injury senario.

Hope the fix-it bills not too steep.

Take care out there, at least you rode away from it as a wise person stated earlier.

Chickadee