Well I f#cked up...

[Reckless]

DB Actually you learn this very quickly when Moto crossing. A lot of MXer's will tell you they where completely stuffed in a certain situation, but they stuck with the bike instead of bailing and got through OK. This happens a few times per ride if your pushing it a bit. There would be no MX stories of survival to tell if this wasn't the case. It tends to be our fear or lack of experiance that is the difference.
The don't panic and look where you want to go the bike will handle the rest theory! Which is fundamental to MX and it works!

DB Katman is over simplifying your theory or just picking out what suits his argument.

[Mrs Busa Pete]

Reido has probley gone to bed by now so why the fu*k dont all you experts do the same. And if you are interested it's not that bad bar and lever only not to mention the leaky fork seal that wouldn't of helped 2000ks old

definitely a honda.

[98tls]

DB

DB Katman is over simplifying your theory or just picking out what suits his argument.

Or maybe as the thread poster is a newbie hes just making it simple."Argument" what argument?This is KB theres no arguments we are all just a happy extended family.

[CookMySock]

Reido has probley gone to bed by now so why the fu*k dont all you experts do the same.

ahh go get a dog up yaaa! LOL

DB

[The Stranger:Me]

Dude, sorry to see you binned.
At least you and man enough to accept responsibility and learn from your error. Good on you.

Just ignore the fuckwits like twatman and his faithful lap dog dipshit, they seem to derive some sort of twisted pleasure from sticking the boot in when people are down.

[jrandom]

What has happened is, your fears about how far you can lean have forced your brain into survival mode, and will not let you lean the bike, because it seems that you will slip the tyres on the road.

NOW, perhaps this is true - you might have skidded? Perhaps you wouldn't have? It is very difficult to tell in hindsight, but one thing is clear...

Beware the grease mud!

It's apparent, though, that the real problem here was one of countersteering technique, or possibly incorrect inflation of the upper half of the tyres.

Fitment of braided brake lines is the obvious solution.

[Ixion]

..came up to a corner noticed the speed bump, decided that i was going to fast (60kmph) to go over it at the angle i was on. ..
Reido

A speed bump actually ON a corner? That is most unusual. Where is that ? I will take it up with the authorities. Speed bumps are never supposed to be installed mid corner.

[oldrider]

A speed bump actually ON a corner? That is most unusual. Where is that ? I will take it up with the authorities. Speed bumps are never supposed to be installed mid corner.

Well spotted Ixion, it just does not compute (or should not) I hope Reido's description was wrong, rather than the speed bump placement!

Disappointing for Reido, bending his baby but all part of learning in the school of hard knocks.

He who falls and walks away lives to fall another day, good luck Reido. Cheers John.

[xwhatsit]

One thing to remember when starting off, especially with a nice modern bike with new tyres, is that you'll almost never be going too fast for a corner; too fast for the rider, perhaps, but not too fast for the bike. If you feel like you're going too fast around a corner, don't worry! Just look further around the corner, lean over a bit more, wind on a little bit more throttle, and clench your arsehole.

You can keep doing this all the way until you start hearing metal scraping (exhausts or footpegs ). Never, ever back off, or hit the brakes -- you want to be accelerating (I know it sounds crazy, but once you do that everything settles down and it'll be much more relaxed).

Sure the bike might get the shits; you might feel it bucking and twisting and squirming underneath you, especially if you hit some nasty bumps mid-coner. But don't worry, it's just complaining, it'll still carry you around the corner.

You just have to learn to trust the bike. It's the classic beginner mistake, running too hot into a corner, then running wide or grabbing the brakes. You solve this by a) reducing the chance of happening, by reading the road and slowing down before corners and b) learning what to do when you do come in too hot -- look where you want to go, keep the bike accelerating, and trusting the bike by letting it lean over a little more.

[Patch]

If the speedhump is in a 20kph zone, hardly matters where it is, does it?


Its a lot safer and easier (on the bike) to pop a wheelie, and ride over the hump or emergency brake (read brake like fuck) and just before you go over the hump release the brakes.

Everybody has a bin sooner or later, learn from it and ignore Katman and/or Dipshit - they're just part of the resident KB fuckwit club.

[CookMySock]

I'm just glad it wasn't at 130clicks running wide on some bit of twisty open road. It would be the exact same thing, but with hugely different consequences.

Rock on Reido, we're glad we're reading your own posting and not some story in the headlines mate.

DB

[Zuki Bandit]

Glad your ok dude!

[Reido]

bikes sorted

thanks everyone