Cruisy Night Rides

[helenoftroy]

Shoot, if they plan to do that then I'd think about dropping todays OT and go too.

Nah we did'nt go there
Maybe the adventure bikes could have a wee mid-week ride over to Port Levy,Western Valley Rd-Little River and meet the others somewhere??just a thought.nigelp & niggleC mite be up for a little gravel
D says I corner like a dirtbiker(not the best example for son riding behind)
Better get back on the shingle

that may be, but my worst dirty little secrets from that ride have been mysteriously and oh so conveniently cut out of the video

OK ok, I'll admit it, I stuck my head way toooo far over the middle line on at least one blindish right hand bend on Gebbies.
What makes it even worse is I was aware I was about to do it and could have backed off to avoid it.
I'll blame the camera on my head wanting to get closer to the lads in front.

Of course it was the camera straining to get up the front
Was that a Transalper heading up Dyers as we were coming down last night??

[Transalper]

Nah we did'nt go there
Maybe the adventure bikes could have a wee mid-week ride over to Port Levy,Western Valley Rd-Little River and meet the others somewhere??just a thought.nigelp & niggleC mite be up for a little gravel
D says I corner like a dirtbiker(not the best example for son riding behind)
Better get back on the shingle

Adventure bike excursion mid weekish would be cool by me. I'm also thinking of a weekend run soon to put a mate on the back and show him the dark side, the alternative way to the beyond of Akaroa and back via Port Levy way.

So just how does a dirt biker turn?? are you tipping the bike but not yourself with it? I do that too sometimes unless I'm pushing it.

Was that a Transalper heading up Dyers as we were coming down last night??

Yep, went up Dyers, left on to Summit, right on to Evans, past the tunnel, right on to Gebbies, right on to the highway, right again at Taitapu and along Old Taitapu Rd and then got home something like 10:30pm.
Bit of a laugh, running that old squared off D606 knobbly on the rear with out J sitting on back felt like it was flat when i tipped in to the bends, took a while to get the feel for it.

[imdying]

yeah, its fatory indicators right- hand side.

You got mail.

[dangerous]

rode into the wheatchief car park and heard a sound and thought was stone hitting the faring, 2 sec later im on the ground with the bike on top of me.
the front wheel flicked up a stone towards the back and it went up and jammed between one of the teeth of the back sproket and the chain, you can clearly see the mark on the sproket teeth where it jammed

it was a stone that jammed between the back sproket and chain, that caused the bike to jam up though.

Man.. as I said i was guttered when I saw you go down, but you are some what deluded about the rear locking up.

it went like this... you were buzed at over 200kph by BBB comming from the back of the pack, you figgered you would take chase but the 6 hundie couldent avoid letting me through, BBB and myself didnt brake a great deal for the kink were as you and Kawa4 bailed out, this heated you up so ya gunned the bike and came in to the pub car park a tad hotish... you were going faster than you thought heated up by the silly speeds up the road, the front locked up in the gravel (if you heard a noise it may have been a stone rubbing the front guard) and you lost ballance.

Now remember i saw it all including you being stuck under the bike... I ran over and helped ya out.
I noted that there was NO rear lock up marks and a small lock upo from the front.
In a nut shell you locked the front up the bike went full lock and you lost ballance.

As as I already said, could have been any of us, but some times experience pays off, especially when you have a fancy paint job on a high powered bike.

[Transalper]

Sorry Jwalker, don't want to sound like I'm ganging up on you but the chain/sprocket locked wheel mix sounded like a bit of a reach to me, it can happen but would that cause a fall. I'd like to have seen the marks left in the dirt from that. You sure the stone didn't get in there as a result of the fall rather than as the cause?
I wasn't there, wish I was, but I got to say I tend to think a rear wheel lock up wouldn't dump you on your ass with out leaving a huge skid mark, and that's if it was even able to dump you at all. I'd have thought if you had slowed enough to get in to the carpark driveway (and I know it's not much of a turn in from the Governers bay side) then you'd be able to ride a rear wheel lock until the bike stopped... unless you grabbed the front brake in some kind of knee jerk type reaction when you felt the rear lock.

So it seems there may be conflicting opinions on this, and you may never agree, but at least keep the possibility that big D could be correct as well and if he is how would you handle it next time. If you are correct then how would you handle that next time too?

I'm now thinking I should refresh my memory by jamming my rear brake on a few times in some gravel bends or even the entrance to the Wheatcheif, but from memory (and remember I've done a fair bit of touring on 1000cc sport tourers on gravel too) a rear wheel lockup in the shingle.. wheel will only step out if the bike is tipped over, you can control which way it steps by tipping the bike. If you hold the bike upright the rear wheel will usually just skip a bit from side to side but doesn't usually actually overtake the front wheel so you can just ride it out.

A small after thought, where was that judderbar in relation to the fall? That thing didn't launch you did it?

If anyone can point out big holes in my post, now's a good time to do so, I might just learn something.

[Bren_chch]

Sounds like u all ride to fast!

you should know better at your age dangerous and you Transalper

[dangerous]

Sounds like u all ride to fast!

you should know better at your age dangerous and you Transalper

what did we do

[Tacoman]

nice video mate awesome footage and editing

[helenoftroy]

Adventure bike excursion mid weekish would be cool by me. I'm also thinking of a weekend run soon to put a mate on the back and show him the dark side, the alternative way to the beyond of Akaroa and back via Port Levy way.

So just how does a dirt biker turn?? are you tipping the bike but not yourself with it? I do that too sometimes unless I'm pushing it.
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Got to use these adventure bikes for what they're made for

And yep-got to concentrate on keeping my body in line with bike

[Tacoman]

And just to point it out, the fuckwit was reversing and you can hardly tell if his reverse lights are on. I just remember the, OH FUCK!, coming around the corner.

tell me about it I pull the finger to the idiot and as Mik said the MARICOn reverse what are ya thinking!!!

[JMemonic]

A photo of the sprocket after being attacked by a stone. Sorry it not the best but I did not have my macro tubes with me. One of the other shots kind of shows a slide mark in the shingle behind the rear wheel.

I anyone wants any digital copies of the shots I take on our runs just let me know in full size jpeg format they are about 8 megs per shot.

[dangerous]

One of the other shots kind of shows a slide mark in the shingle behind the rear wheel.

There was NO mark behind the rear wheel, ill stake my Guzzi on it.
A stone inbetween the chain and sprocket will rotate with the wheel, it would have to be a bloody hard rock to not crumble, certinly looks like a ston has at some point cought up in the sprocket, but from what I saw it wasnt the problem.
JW, if the damage to the fairings not bad enough to claim ins then I know a guy that does touch ups, as for the can, are you able to rotate the can and rerivit the ends so as the dent is underneith?

[alley cat]

Ohhhhh it sounds like you people are havin good times on these wed rides, i just might have 2 have a nosey.
The wording tricked me! cruisey.... i know i ride a harley occasionally, but im just not a cruisy rider, its the voices that make me ride stupid

[JWALKER]

JW, if the damage to the fairings not bad enough to claim ins then I know a guy that does touch ups, as for the can, are you able to rotate the can and rerivit the ends so as the dent is underneith?

unforunately it has damaged through the paint on some farings and the is a slight gap in the seal of the can too.

my excess is only $300 and i think the vinyls would exceed that.
thank you for the offer though D

as for stone or no stone, i don't really care, it was learning experience and i am going to leave it at that.

[SpeedyGirl]

Ohhhhh it sounds like you people are havin good times on these wed rides, i just might have 2 have a nosey.
The wording tricked me! cruisey.... i know i ride a harley occasionally, but im just not a cruisy rider, its the voices that make me ride stupid

Come on girl, get your butt out there haven't see you in ages! it was a great ride, need more chicks to even out the numbers