The story of a young fella thinking he's god and the lowside that followed

[skidMark]

how did a thread about me fucking up a corner completely turn into me being an absolutely useless rider that you all seem to think can't even go round a corner....

as i said itn the orgional post alot of factors contributed to the lowside...

yes i screwed up the corner by going to hard at it... shit happens as we have seen time and time again on here it can happen to any of us doesn't matter how good a rider you are or think you are ....

i'm trying to improve my riding , thus taking corners faster..... if your trying as hard as i am to learn to be better a bin is enevitable....if you nana it everywhere how are you meant to learn.....for example n4cr....aka tristank

his bike has had a few battle with the tarmac now he wouldn't be the awesome rider he is now if he had taken it easy everywhere...

if your pushing hard sometimes you crash....i get over it and move on....

you show me somebody that has never crashed on a corner and that person i can guarantee is not a very good rider....yes i know there are some exceptions....

but the best riders ddn't get to be good by just puttering around .... they went hard.....crashed left right and centre and now have bigger cc bikes that they have gained the skills to ride by giving a 250 hell so now they have $20,000+ bikes which they can ride around on knowing they can ride properly and arn't going to make a mess of thier dream toy....

i would not move onto a bigger bike or reccommend anyone to move to a bigger bike until they have pushed serious limits of a 250...

i know in all truth i am nowhere near ready to have a 600 or thou...even if my license did so allow....

it would just be signing my own death warrent and a waste of money because i would be sure to crash it soon after getting it....

250's are for learning skills on learning skills you sometimes screwed up i screwed up....and ill probably lowside this thing 10 more times.....minimum...

thats what they are for

SM

[R6_kid:Me]

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[SARGE]

C'mon Sarge you much to old to have been a teen tit in 1985.. tell the truth, it was 1975...

ok... i was a POST TEEN tit then.. i was at Camp LeJune North Carolina ..with the twisty roads of the Great Smokey Mountains 10 minutes away.. i could ride Deals Gap and the Tail of the Dragon pretty much whenever i wanted .. Saturday nights, we would hit he town.. get in trouble with the local constabulatory and raise 9 kinds of hell with the hillbillies.. my brand new bike was a total rat in 7 months and i ended up with no license more than once

[skidMark]

Mark.. i wasnt there and i've never ridden with you. i never said you shifted or didnt .. you said you wanted advice and thats the worst thing learners fuck up on.. just thought i'd toss a bit of hard-won knowledge to you but if you are gonna get all pissy about it .. then you need to learn the way the rest of us did .. i just hope you dont take anyone with you when you do..

asshole shit in traffic gives every one of us a bad look.. that includes wheelies where there is the possibility of cross traffic or pedestrians ..

i have a high amount of respect for you sarge

that was not aimed at you...my apoligies for it coming across that way

[SwanTiger]

as much as i'd like to shutup and worry about myself i dont want to be one of those people saying 'i told you so' if he does die... hence why im trying to tell him that the shit he does is needless and wreckless. I tried not to ride with him, but when we slowed down he stopped and waited.

Mark is in his own little world, leave him there until he grows out of it.

[Squeak the Rat]

and ill probably lowside this thing 10 more times.....minimum...

And one of these times you'll highside or slide into the path of an 18 wheeler or hit a curb and sustain spinal injuries and have to eat chicken through a straw.

Good luck Mark, please don't hurt any one else in your next 9 bins.

[skidMark]

And one of these times you'll highside or slide into the path of an 18 wheeler or hit a curb and sustain spinal injuries and have to eat chicken through a straw.

Good luck Mark, please don't hurt any one else in your next 9 bins.

í'm stressing a point it's not like i plan to bin it i'm just saying....SHIT HAPPENS

[Squeak the Rat]

í'm stressing a point it's not like i plan to bin it i'm just saying....SHIT HAPPENS

No, you make your own shit.

[R6_kid:Me]

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[kiwifruit]

I hear what you are saying Mark, kind of, about pushing limits and gaining skills....
but dont you think the road is a bad place to be pushing the limits of your skills?

get on the track if you want push it

[crashe]

and ill probably lowside this thing 10 more times.....minimum

Mark you seemed obsessed to WANT TO BIN...... why??????

Surely the whole idea is to keep the bike upright and not have accidents...
By keeping the bike upright means you are a better rider.

If you want to go so fast around corners... then get your butt out onto the track on track days and learn there.

Going slower around corners means that you do it safely.....

[skidMark]

No, you make your own shit.

but you see from this bin i have learnt something......

don't hard corner on cold new slippery too much psi tyres..... and then fook up a gear change and panic...

[Switch]

Well i'll be damned, this is an interesting thread. I'm sure we all make mistakes (i'll prolly make a whole lot more), and i will prolly get the shit ripped outta me too, but meh, thats forum life
I wrekon mark will learn from this, i think his "broken ego" will make him go easy for a while
Good luck mark, take it easy

[R6_kid:Me]

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[skidMark]

Mark you seemed obsessed to WANT TO BIN...... why??????

Surely the whole idea is to keep the bike upright and not have accidents...
By keeping the bike upright means you are a better rider.

If you want to go so fast around corners... then get your butt out onto the track on track days and learn there.

Going slower around corners means that you do it safely.....

so i should go learn to corner etc....on a track when others are on zx10's etc out there too doing 5 times the speed....i'd fuck up and lowside infront of somebody or something...the track is no place for a noobie to learn to ride....

i don't ride the track i ride the road the track is absolutely nothing like the road...

the fact i can only turn into streets (t sections) holding 50 kph through the apex.... means i still have alot to do before i can take 35 kph corners etc on the open road at 80+.

at present i can do 55's at 90...

thats blardy slow