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Moto Board => Riding Techniques => Topic started by: Slide Panda on October 23, 2012, 04:04:42 AM



Title: Look where you want to go...
Post by: Slide Panda on October 23, 2012, 04:04:42 AM
Or, you get to be this guy

(http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/182v3wt284kkkgif/original.gif)

Cheesing for the camera on 129/ The Dragon, he runs wide, into a Vette.


Title: Re: Look where you want to go...
Post by: Spidey on October 23, 2012, 07:33:00 AM
It seems like he looks exactly where he wants to go:  into the Vette. 


Title: Re: Look where you want to go...
Post by: dk1six on October 28, 2012, 07:36:25 PM
I've seen a lot of that in the on line videos, riders distracted by those filming and taking pictures on the side of the road.  I guess he made the mistake of being distracted coming into a turn.


Title: Re: Look where you want to go...
Post by: Duc796canada on November 18, 2012, 02:06:12 PM
Ouch!!! I hope he was okay.


Title: Re: Look where you want to go...
Post by: ungeheuer on August 23, 2013, 04:36:27 AM
..the rider made his situation worse once he began to stray over the double yellows when he panicked and hit the brakes (you can clearly see the bike lift out of the turn and straighten up). 

A better "oh make the beast with two backs" strategy is to try to learn to go the counter steering and lean.. lean..lean.. stay the make the beast with two backs off the brakes.. or the bike will do just as this guy's did.



Title: Re: Look where you want to go...
Post by: swampduc on August 23, 2013, 09:58:56 AM
..the rider made his situation worse once he began to stray over the double yellows when he panicked and hit the brakes (you can clearly see the bike lift out of the turn and straighten up). 

A better "oh make the beast with two backs" strategy is to try to learn to go the counter steering and lean.. lean..lean.. stay the make the beast with two backs off the brakes.. or the bike will do just as this guy's did.



You're right about the correct response, although I suspect he'd have been in deep shit regardless. Not much lean to be had on that thing, particularly when sitting upright in the middle.


Title: Re: Look where you want to go...
Post by: ungeheuer on August 24, 2013, 03:38:12 AM
No lean at all once he's crossing yellow lines though  :-[


Title: Re: Look where you want to go...
Post by: Mundman on September 14, 2013, 08:57:01 PM
He looked cool right up to the time he didn't!  [bang]


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