Triumphrat

triumpt120rv · 11-02-2012, 10:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Scriber

This is a great video to diagnose the riding mistakes this guy made. So...what could he have done to keep his bike upright?

Trailer the bike with strong ties.

jonkster · 11-02-2012, 10:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Boldor

If "Cool" is in the eye of the beholder, my definition of post-crash Cool is to immediately work on accepting what just happened and having a look around before you move. Sitting still for a while and checking your legs aren't broken and going to spear up your arse when you stand-up to saunter away from the ugliness - that's Cool to me.

You are a better man than me. My best cool one was much more along the lines of his attempt. Only I badly misjudged how fast I was sliding when I stood up to do a cool sort of saunter away.

I did "Walking on the Moon" long before the Police starting singing about it

D41 · 11-02-2012, 10:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Scriber

This is a great video to diagnose the riding mistakes this guy made. So...what could he have done to keep his bike upright?

He could have NOT tried to keep up with the sportbike.

Junipero · 11-02-2012, 10:53 PM

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Originally Posted by DaveM

I thought the bike looked stoopid and the rider was an idiot who also looked stoopid.

Nothing cool about any of that in my book, sorry mate.

Just very dumb.

You are absolutely right, of course. But if I low slide I want it to be pretty much like that, except I'd be dropping a lot more F-bombs. Just sayin'.

leftarmlogan · 11-02-2012, 11:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Scriber

So...what could he have done to keep his bike upright?

Everything he didn't do.

jonkster · 11-02-2012, 11:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Scriber

This is a great video to diagnose the riding mistakes this guy made. So...what could he have done to keep his bike upright?

I think that is a good question. Unlike it seems a few people here, I have been in a corner when I misjudged the corner and my skills and the bikes abilities and things started going pear shaped.

You often here people say "lean more and it will go round".

The reason I think this guy came off though was he couldn't physically lean the bike more - the frame looks like it grounded and unloaded the wheels.

As an armchair critic and with the benefit of hindsight I think what he could of done at that point in the story was shift his weight more - ie hang off the bike on the inside to compensate for the limited lean angles the bike itself could do. (I wasn't there though. And I have low sided at low speed myself so I am no expert.)

triumpt120rv · 11-02-2012, 11:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Scriber

So...what could he have done to keep his bike upright?

Not drag his foot.

Scriber · 11-03-2012, 12:17 AM

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Originally Posted by jonkster

As an armchair critic and with the benefit of hindsight I think what he could of done at that point in the story was shift his weight more - ie hang off the bike on the inside to compensate for the limited lean angles the bike itself could do. (I wasn't there though. And I have low sided at low speed myself so I am no expert.)

I think so too. His upper body is to the outside of the center line of his bike. So it looks like he is squandering his lean angle. With good body position he could have made the turn with LESS lean angle. His initial lane position also looks poor -- needs to start closer to the outside of the lane so he can have a better shot at a delayed apex. As it happened, he apexed the turn too soon beginning with a lazy turn-in. There are also a couple of minor mid turn steering corrections which contributed to losing more lean angle and drifting wide. He never did look all the way through the corner, so when he began to target fixate as he drifted wide his fate was sealed. With all the mistakes he made I still think he would have made the turn with a good inside body position.

Geronimo675 · 11-03-2012, 12:49 AM

Nice bike, I like the contrasting black & white.

What a crappy way to realize his skill level.

Boldor · 11-03-2012, 04:30 AM

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Originally Posted by jonkster

You are a better man than me. My best cool one was much more along the lines of his attempt. Only I badly misjudged how fast I was sliding when I stood up to do a cool sort of saunter away.

I did "Walking on the Moon" long before the Police starting singing about it

Maybe I mixed to many ideas into one sentence.

I feel quite cool sitting still for a while. Under such extreme circumstances, you can commonly loose feeling of pain. Many broken limbed crashed riders have made a simple break into a compound fracture by getting up too quickly.

I have rarely sauntered away from crash.