Low-siding: how to get out from under?

[Spyke]

i've herd a few people talking about pulling themselves out from under a bike while its low siding and then getting on the bike and crouching on it while its sliding, how is this done?

isn't it hard to climb onto a bike as its moving on its side?


cheers

[Usarka]

practice makes perfect. watch for the cars behind though

[cowboyz]

myself I never heard of such a thing.

But if you do lowside is it my thoughts that you want to get away from the bike. Not stay with it.

Be more worthwhile to try and keep legs and arms in to stop breaking yourself and hope that money you spent on gear was worthwhile.

Wait till you think you have stopped and then count to 10 before getting up - just in case you havent.

[Sam I Am]

Yep nothing like sitting on a red hot exhaust pipe to make you forget you are in the middle of a crash !!!

[moT]

pull yourself on to the bike and surf it to a stop

[R6_kid:Me]

Sounds like BS to me... you'd need to be moving at a fair pace and have held on to the bike initially. Then you have to fight the friction of the ground rushing past and then get 'behind' the bike.

The two times i have low sided I barely had time to realise it was happening, let alone decide how i was going to ride out the incident.

[ZeroIndex]

I PULLED MYSELF FROM UNDER THE BIKE... the trick is to REALLY PULL hard on the right handlebar as the bike is falling (not sure if it will help in a front tuck situation), but yeah, you pull hard on the right handle bar as if you're trying to lift your left leg up, you shoe will probably still scrape on the ground, but it beats getting your leg munted... I dented the tank cover and bruised my right leg from the pressure I put on pulling my leg away from the road, but it worked.

I think one of the other things I did was to try do a roll-type thingy... imagine while sitting at your chair that you're going into the biggest right hand corner, as you push your right arm away and pull your left hand backwards, you kinda swing your hips/body... now, that but pulling on the bars (mainly right)... <--that's for lowsiding on the left-hand side of the bike)

[carver]

i've herd a few people talking about pulling themselves out from under a bike while its low siding and then getting on the bike and crouching on it while its sliding, how is this done?

isn't it hard to climb onto a bike as its moving on its side?


cheers

i have done it a few times...im not sure how though..
i usually think about what to do before it happens!

[Drum]

First step is to tighten your sphincter as tight as possible. The rest should come naturally.

[sAsLEX]

you should be fine in leathers etc, Pull in the clutch and hold on tight, then lift her up when your stopped and carry on!

[justsomeguy]

I don't think so, usually the bike slides off to a side and the rider continues rolling and or sliding in the direction he/she was initially travelling.

[Spyke]

cheers guys, havn't had a chance yet to try getting out from under a bike while its low siding but now i know a few tricks to help (tighten your sphincter as tight as possible).

actualy know i come to think of it there was one close encounter on my bucket, coming round a right hander and the exhaust (on the wrong side of bracket, fixed now) was scraping the ground every lap so i eased off, one lap was trying to catch up to someone came in faster than usual herd the familia scraping sound but by that stage i was riding on the exhaust, and the rear was coming out on a an angle, some how i managed to get it back up.

i learnt what the first stages of a low side felt like and then as i got it back up i learnt what it felt like to nearly high side. (good experience)

[ZeroIndex]

I guess at the end of the day, it depends how the bike lowsided, and what angle it is sliding at... if you do a 12, then the bike falls over, it generally lands with both wheels facing the direction you were going, so the seat is facing behind the direction you are travelling...

Sidewinder's Tip Of The Day: GO FACE-FIRST!!!

[Mr Merde]

very recent experience of a lowside. 2 weeks ago a cage took me out on the motorway.

What did I do

Apart from kicking the machine as hard as i could

absoutely nothing.

too busy hoping the oncoming traffic wasnt going to squish me to worry about the bike.

[Chrislost]

i've herd a few people talking about pulling themselves out from under a bike while its low siding and then getting on the bike and crouching on it while its sliding, how is this done?

isn't it hard to climb onto a bike as its moving on its side?


cheers

when i lowsided (bike meet gravel) i was about 5m behind the bike before i realised i wasnt on it anymore.
you must be still connected to the bike to stay on it!
plus if the bike catches on somthign and starts doing flips do you want to be on it???