Unfuckingbelievable

[Dafe]

I totally agree with everything thats been said, I have noone to blame but myself..
Im constantly trying to better myself and exercise more control..
I know that my days are numbered if I continue to rape it everywhere which is why I dont
But comeon... sometimes when you are out for a ride you open it up
I reckon one contribution was how soft the front suspension was...
Under hard braking on 2 occasions before the bin the back wheel came up when the front suspension bottomed out I guess
..cant lean while doing a stoppie
When it comes down to it I have noone to blame but myself..
totally gutted but I dont reckon i was riding above my abilities..
I totally agree now that speed should only be attempted on a track.

This is your problem!

You're avidly seeking excuses as to why you should go out and do it again.
Blame the front suspension this time.

If you were going slower, you could have taken the corner. Maybe the speed is the problem?
Besides, didn't you say the back wheel lifted?
I'd say you are riding a bike outside of your means. Too much bike for you. Not allowing yourself time to gain a bikes feel.
I hope you give up for the sake of your friends and family and hopefully you'll not take anybody I know with you.

[Ixion]

I totally agree with everything thats been said, I have noone to blame but myself..
Im constantly trying to better myself and exercise more control..
I know that my days are numbered if I continue to rape it everywhere which is why I dont
But comeon... sometimes when you are out for a ride you open it up
I reckon one contribution was how soft the front suspension was...
Under hard braking on 2 occasions before the bin the back wheel came up when the front suspension bottomed out I guess
..cant lean while doing a stoppie
When it comes down to it I have noone to blame but myself..
totally gutted but I dont reckon i was riding above my abilities..
I totally agree now that speed should only be attempted on a track.

What nonsense. You crashed. Therefore by definition you lacked the ability to deal with the situation.

Soft front suspension has little to do with whether the rear lifts under braking weight transference. And even if it did, what of that. Part of a riders ability is to accomodate the idiosyncracies of the bike. If you could not do that then, yes, you were riding beyond your abilities.

And how did a stoppie while braking into the corner mean that you had no choice but to run off the road more or less upright ? What was wrong with putting the back wheel down and pushing through the corner. After all, the fact that the back came up shows that the front was braking hard. By the time you were in the corner you must have slowed considerably. Granted you might have low sided , but it is unlikely.

Your mates, on bikes with less handling performance than yours got safely round the corner. You did not. Either you were going much faster than them on the approach, in which case I would think you showed poor judgement on approach speed, or you stuffed up the corner. In either case the crash is incontrovatably down to rider error. It was not the fault of the bike.

I do not mean to be harsh, and I am certainly the last person to pass judgement of race track style cornering. But as others have said, if you do not revise your thinking you are very likely to kill or seriously injure yourself , which none of us want to see.

Please reflect on this and try to understand that there is only ONE thing that is solely responsible for whether a rider crashes or not. The rider.

[slowpoke]

I'm not sure why but my eyes keep welling up with tears....maybe it's from laughing so hard....maybe it's the sheer frustration of trying to comprehend your attitude. I can't believe you had the gall to criticise an Asian driver...YOU are the sort of person Asian drivers talk about!

Now, I'm off to touch wood so hopefully it doesn't happen to me. I'm working offshore at the moment so I'm guessing "Hey fella's, anybody got some wood?" is probably NOT the right way to go about it considering we've been away a couple of weeks now......

PS: no disrespect to Asians, there are nutjob drivers of all races as proven by this thread.

[mikey]

i think the obvious next step is a gsxr1000. there are more spare parts out there to fix them once you crash em

im about to set up the great KB PRE PAID FUNERAL SCHEME

you might want to opt in.

though like i said earlier, your probably the type that will die choking on a smint not in a big strex channel sport.

[Black Bandit]

So I got my new aprilia rs250 ... gn125 ... nsr ... aprilia ...
should I give up riding?

Those poor bikes, those poor beautiful rare machines. Don't give up riding - just give up wrecking those wonderful machines.

Glad that you survived to tell the tale.

[jrandom]

those poor beautiful rare machines...

What, a GN125?

*I'm* not glad he survived to tell the tale. I've given up caring about human life. It appears to be overrated.

[Forest]

what never fails to amaze me is the number of 250 bikes out there that are built to reach a higher speed than many bigger bikes. the bike in question here is a 250, yet can reach 150k?? imagine if that was a shiney newbie rider, fresh out of the licensing office, with no practise under their belt?? crazy.

A couple of years ago I got a TU250 Volty up to an indicated 150k going downhill on those big hills around Albany (going southbound on SH1).

No joke - a completely stock TU250. I would struggle to think of a more placid learner bike.

I would hate to think what an RS250 is capable of if someone was riding it really hard.

[Black Bandit]

What, a GN125?

Hey - play nice. GN's are bikes too. Perhaps not as rare though ...

[Hillbilly]

Once that RS250 gets fixed, trade it in for something safe like a new '06 CBF250, and get some practice in. You'll lve longer. I really think you need to take a good long look at the this article which was originally posted by spudchuka:http://www.ogrish.com/archives/biker...b_20_2006.html

That's what could have happened to you if you hit the fence, and next time you might do just that! The pictures are all real too! There are other posted on KB about a rider who hit a tree at 200km/hr, not much left of him either. Wake up! If you want to go fast and get some excitement, then do it on a racetrack. That's what organized track days are for.

You sound just like the idiot who killed himself by plowing into a ute doing a u-turn. Was it the driver's fault? NO! The rider was doing in excess of 150km/hr up a hill that was only 300 metres long and that had an intersection at the end of it. He came though a roundabout, gunned it up the hill and "Bang" right outside a dentist's office. Fortunately he broke his neck so he didn't suffer. This was a in a 40km/hr school zone, and in broad daylight.

Don't blame the front end of the RS 250 either. Aprilia know what they're doing when they build bikes. You didn't follow the "three second rule" did you?

[Smorg]

So 8 bins and how long have you been riding................maybe its time to step back and have a look from a different point of view. You shouldn't be doing 150 if you cant take corners. Dont buy an aprillia if your just going to wreck it............give it to someone who can actually ride it.

[cowboyz]

I totally agree with everything thats been said, I have noone to blame but myself..

When it comes down to it I have noone to blame but myself..
totally gutted but I dont reckon i was riding above my abilities..

Translated for other members:


I better say that it was my fault otherwise I will look like a tosser but it wasn't really. The bike wasn't setup correctly and although I had ridden it for 700 odd km It wasn't my fault that I didn't pay attention to how the bike rode on the road and it wasn't my fault I outbraked myself and hit the ditch.

BTW. If you don't think that you were riding above your abilities then why is your bike in the ditch???


Dumb arse.



PS. Thanks in advance for the red rep.

[BNZ]

I see them in front of me at about 120, they start braking, I start braking, they turn into the corner and im still trying to brake as the backwheel comes up which means I cant turn into the corner,

Specially after I have dedicated my life to being a safe more aware rider.

Sorry, cant be fucked reading the whole thread..... Basically you have "dedicated your life to being a safe more aware rider", yet you repeatedly crash, and this time it was all your fault as you came into a corner waaaay too fast?

I would re-evaluate your definition of "Being a safe more aware rider"

Glad to hear there were no injuries this time. Good luck with the bike.

[madkeenandy]

hey come on guys 150km/h is slow... on a RACE TRACK if you want to go that fast come out to a track day and have the same fun only safer and legally...

[ducatijim]

Perhaps you should go back to being a 'scooter boy' as you seem to lack the wisdom to ride even a wee mans bike. Least you didn't hurt any poor innoscent.

[ferretface]

Its a damn shame binning such a nice bike (though I'm not sure about the graphics) but only common sense will stop you making the same mistake again. If you ain't got that - then buy a bicycle instead.