My first tumble

[FJRider]

most bins wins

BOTH of us have ALREADY agreed you are a loser (in a previous thread)

[Gizzit]

I ALWAYS found it works... here I am riding down the road... I see a big sign advertising a pub just down the road... I stare at it... VOILA... I'm IN said pub...works every time...concentration is the key

Yes .... but that's different. ..... Thats like the centrifical force exerted by counter steering .... a pub exerts that kind of pressure ..... one of those laws of physics ........ apparently

[carver]

BOTH of us have ALREADY agreed you are a loser (in a previous thread)

oh no, whatever next!

[Atlas shrugged]

Trashed my bike last weekend too drove into a ditch, bit of the same what’s it called “rider fixation” but also it was my first long ride and I got a bit tired and lost concentration, then fixated on side of road instead of around corner. Few of you probably noticed me sitting waiting for the tow truck just out from governs bay lot of bikers out that day.

Also a big THANK YOU to the fellow bikers, nice two people that noticed and stopped to help me pull the bike out and gave me a phone number to a tow truck.

So much for the nice new pant job! Snapped the Shift pedal off too and a few other bits.

I have crashed a car and damaged other expensive things before but its funny how much more upsetting it is with a bike. You really get to like the dame things!

[dangerous]

pulled out of the drive in an unfamiliar fashion - wide, then onto the other side of the road where I seen the drain at the side of the road and couldn't get my bloody focus off it.

thats pathetic! i've had better falls in my lounge!

Also had a change of handle bars this morning too.

and i spose ya going to blame me for that huh.. aye, aye? na look ya cant blame the bars they IMHO are beter than the trail bike ones you have, but hey pop round and we will sort.

who I thought quite experienced, and a bit crazy

so you had to perform to impress??? the Duc guy yeah?

I understand the handle bars are not a major factor (not a huge change) but a factor none the less.

na, target fixation, a very hard thing to over come, even with the miles I have riden over the years I sometimes do it, mainly on the race track... so hey shit can happen. Now I know your drive and ya road is only 3-4m wide, its narrow as so Id say the main factor was speed/fixation, dont worry we can tide oll blue up.

as I don't have decent protective pants, got a nice graze on my knee and hip and my very pretty helmet has a graze too.

I do worry about your jeans and shoes, I know its a money thig at the mo and all ya wana do is ride, but you must look into this.

see ya soon aye