Low-siding: how to get out from under?

[ZeroIndex]

When you feel the bike go, flick your leg around, jump off the bike and flap your arms in the air

does this actually help? or is this just a piss take? would't it be better to hold them against your body?

avgas - That has to be the FUNNIEST post I've read on this thread, that is just pure genius, and for that, a green bling has been dispatched your way...

AndyPandy - In all honesty, if you considered avgas' comment as truth, I'd suggest you hang up the keys of your bike

[cowboyz]

no need to hang up the keys to your bike. Some people are less experienced at crashing than others round here.

And yes. It was a pisstake. Keep everything tucked in and wait till you think you have stopped, and then wait till you have really stopped.

Then check the 5 essential limbs and try to work out why you are no longer on your bike.

[moT]

the best way is to relax and be like a rag doll if yo tence up thats when you brake things and yes wait until you have completely stoped. or if your in the way of other bikes when your slideing try swimming off the track... avoid tumbeling that is the most painful

[ZeroIndex]

no need to hang up the keys to your bike. Some people are less experienced at crashing than others round here.

And yes. It was a pisstake. Keep everything tucked in and wait till you think you have stopped, and then wait till you have really stopped.

Then check the 5 essential limbs and try to work out why you are no longer on your bike.

I wasn't saying that literally... you gotta admit the "flap your arms like a bird" was funny...

[avgas]

Bloody hell - if your gonna go out, go out flapping.
To be honest with people here, unless your on the track you don't have the time to think about crashing....it just happens. If your lucky the natural instict in ya sez....Nah fuk it - i don't feel like dying today.
As for the limp idea - may work in some situations, but not when you legs hit the handlebar controls as you get airborne. I still have the starter button imprinted into my tibia.
Over all....dont crash. if you dont crash.....there is no need to worry about what you might do.

[Spyke]

well hey what can i say i'm a student that believes anything people say!

isn't that the way our policaly correct government taught us?

very true avgas i truely wouldn't know the first thing about crashing a road bike.
is there any articles about the safest way to go sliding down the road?

[Mom]

When you feel the bike go, flick your leg around, jump off the bike and flap your arms in the air

Is that called "getting air?" *sniggers to self*

does this actually help? or is this just a piss take? would't it be better to hold them against your body?

I going with P/T all the way with this

is there any articles about the safest way to go sliding down the road?

UM mate, you might like to be reading articles about how NOT to go sliding down the road. Seriously! If you find yourself sliding down the road, chances are you will have had little time to position your body just so, arms flapping or otherwise. In my experience, I would suggest you remove yourself from the bike at first opportunity, for some reason bikes slide a shit load further than bodies. No doubt some clever person will have the technical scientific term for it.

[Usarka]

My best advice re praticing crashing is to ride off road. you develop a bit of a knack for falling off if you're as shit at me. probably doesn't help sliding as such but you get a better feel for which way to fall.

[Crisis management]

well hey what can i say i'm a student that believes anything people say!

isn't that the way our policaly correct government taught us?

very true avgas i truely wouldn't know the first thing about crashing a road bike.
is there any articles about the safest way to go sliding down the road?

Let me introduce a new concept........personal responsibility!

If you really want to try out crashing, a low cost method involves a hill, a straight road and a wheelie bin.
Lay the bin down so wheels and the back are on the ground, sit on it and head off down the hill. At whatever speed you want to experiment with, roll off the bin. This way you get the sound effects, plastic scraping on the road, the physical benefits, bruises etc and a controllable crash with no damage to your bike.

Videos would be appreciated.

[ZeroIndex]

Let me introduce a new concept........personal responsibility!

If you really want to try out crashing, a low cost method involves a hill, a straight road and a wheelie bin.
Lay the bin down so wheels and the back are on the ground, sit on it and head off down the hill. At whatever speed you want to experiment with, roll off the bin.
This way you get the sound effects, plastic scraping on the road, the physical benefits, bruises etc and a controllable crash with no damage to your bike.

Videos would be appreciated.

That is possibly one of the best posts this week - Green bling awarded

[vifferman]

I started riding bikes in 1974, and I've lowsided only once on the road. It happened so fast, I was on the road before I realised I'd lost the front end (I hit a squashed softdrink can with the front tyre, at the moment I tipped into a sharp right-hand corner). One second I was turning, the next I was on the road wondering WTF had happened. It took a bit of investigating to find out what the WTF actually was.

In this case (as in most), clambering on top of the bike (assuming it slid for long enough to allow me to do that) would've been of no benefit. And - as others have pointed out - if the bike is sliding for any length of time, it eventually hits something and goes from sliding to somersaulting. Not exactly the sort of thing you want to be in the middle of.

Here's another point: I read Aaron Slight's autobiography a couple of months ago. He nearly lost his right hand due to a bad habit he learnt from his earlier years riding dirt bikes. He was testing at Suzuka (IIRC), when he lowsided on an easy right-hand corner. Because he'd gotten into the habit of holding onto the bars when he binned (for a quick recovery), his hand got trapped between the bars and the track, and fairly conclusively munted. The knuckle of his little finger was ground away almost completely, as well as most of the back of his hand.

[Spyke]

yes well i think it would be better to learn how to avoid low siding than rather learn how to slide down the road. but it would also be gud to know what to do when your sliding down the road if you know what i mean.

[vifferman]

yes well i think it would be better to learn how to avoid low siding than rather learn how to slide down the road. but it would also be gud to know what to do when your sliding down the road if you know what i mean.

OK then.
Try and stay away from the bike.
Tuck your arms in (better if you start to roll than having them flapping about getting snapped off and that sort of thing.)
Don't try to stand up until you're sure you've stopped, and until you've given yourself a quick check over of your functionality (Legs work? - check. Head still on? - check..)

[Crisis management]

OK then.
Try and stay away from the bike.
Tuck your arms in (better if you start to roll than having them flapping about getting snapped off and that sort of thing.)
Don't try to stand up until you're sure you've stopped, and until you've given yourself a quick check over of your functionality (Legs work? - check. Head still on? - check..)

The absurdity police wish to point out you're taking this far too seriously.

[sinned]

Theory is great if it can be applied. My only lowside to date was on a tight corner at about 60ks. Didn't feel the tyres let go - there were microseconds between being on the bike and sliding along the road. It hurt to - I remember that.