View Poll Results: Which are more dangerous? Straights or Corners?

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  • Corners

    70 70.00%
  • Straights

    7 7.00%
  • They are equally dangerous

    13 13.00%
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Thread: Which is more dangerous? Corners or straights?

  1. #31
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    Hey Gremlin! Where's the option for "A hairpin on the Coro loop with some mad South African going round the outside of you on a bleck ZX10"?

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    Corners - heaps more to go wrong.

    The straights are ridden with more or less constant inputs from the rider. Just about everything changes in a corner. Contact patch, lean angle, braking, slow in-fast out, visibility etc etc etc

    That said its very satisfying when I get a set of bends just right.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hitcher View Post
    50% of accidents happen on corners. Which, by abstraction, means that the other 50% must happen on straights.
    Quote Originally Posted by Solarwind
    You fall asleep on the straight, and don't notice the corner coming up,
    mmm working these two together, you could imply the straight actually caused more crashes then, because while the crash happened ON the corner... it was the straight that caused you to lose attention. If those facts hold true, (and ads must be true ) straights are more dangerous

    oi, McJim... you were passed on a straight... it was the slow suzuki that got passed round the outside
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    Quote Originally Posted by Skyryder View Post
    I thought this was a gay thread.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boob Johnson View Post
    I haven't had sex in a while if that counts?
    Don't beg

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    Quote Originally Posted by pritch008 View Post
    Don't beg

    Sex is like air, it 's not important unless you aren't getting any...
    lol too true
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    Personally i believe i would be the one who messes up a straight .... pushing my limits and bikes more on them (only been riding 6 months).
    I know corrners are not always that nice but at this stage i still take them at a comfortable pace only pushing my self on corrners i know....

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    Sharp table corners can be a bugger when you are drunk.
    I'm NOT Homophobic!! I am not afraid of my own house.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Griff View Post
    Sharp table corners can be a bugger when you are drunk.
    Also the straights that keep curving out from under you when drunk. Makes it a bitch to ride without weaving.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Drew View Post
    Also the straights that keep curving out from under you when drunk. Makes it a bitch to ride without weaving.
    Woah There!

    Are you talking about riding your bike when drunk or another type of drunken riding?

    I'm NOT Homophobic!! I am not afraid of my own house.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Griff View Post
    Woah There!

    Are you talking about riding your bike when drunk or another type of drunken riding?

    I'm drunk right now, are ther3e times I shouldn't be?

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