Ducati Monster Forum

powered by:

December 22, 2024, 12:49:44 AM *
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
News: Please Help
 
   Home   Help Search Login Register  



Pages: [1]   Go Down
  Print  
Author Topic: How *not* to prevent a crash  (Read 4090 times)
Slide Panda
Omnipotent Potentate
Post Whore
******
Offline Offline

Posts: 10137


Personal Pretext


« on: July 09, 2012, 07:15:38 AM »



Reportedly rider was uninjured. Guessing the grace of god(s), aliens, tribbles (hmm those are aliens) saved his hide.
Logged

-Throttle's on the right, so are the brakes.  Good luck.
- '00 M900S with all the farkles
- '08 KTM 690 StupidMoto
- '07 Triumph 675 Track bike.
rsoffar
Sr. Member
****
Offline Offline

Posts: 402


« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2012, 12:16:04 PM »

so did this happen because he put his hand down or was he already going down anyways? I dont see anything really looking like he was going down till he pulled off his inside hand and the bike tried to stand up...
Logged

'00 M900s
stopintime
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 9043


S2R 800 '07


« Reply #2 on: July 11, 2012, 12:29:37 PM »

Oooh - I think he deserved a save after that  waytogo
Logged

252,000 km/seventeen years - loving it
Triple J
Guest
« Reply #3 on: July 11, 2012, 01:05:13 PM »

so did this happen because he put his hand down or was he already going down anyways? I dont see anything really looking like he was going down till he pulled off his inside hand and the bike tried to stand up...

Looked to me like it happened because he put his hand down, which created unbalanced pressure on the bars, making his problem worse. There's no reason to crash otherwise, as his little wobble wasn't a big deal.

You can remove your outside hand from the bars in full lean if you're planning on it...but unexpectedly removing the inside hand is asking for trouble.
Logged
cokey
hey take a look @ my
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 2085



« Reply #4 on: July 11, 2012, 02:15:52 PM »

His peg/foot dragged/rubbed the floor.. he jerked a bit n put his down anticipating a slide it seems..
Logged

I WIN
Quote from: my wife
Ok babe I surrender to u.  U may work me out till I drop

About the goat...
 His name was Bob, but the family called him BeelzeBob. 
make the beast with two backs goats.
Ducatamount
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 1153



« Reply #5 on: July 11, 2012, 02:42:23 PM »

He lost his front end and then "instinctively" put his hand down.
Logged

half fast
Triple J
Guest
« Reply #6 on: July 11, 2012, 02:50:18 PM »

I didn't mean his hand started the whole thing. He had a wobble before...putting his hand down just sealed the deal.
Logged
cokey
hey take a look @ my
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 2085



« Reply #7 on: July 11, 2012, 03:01:31 PM »

Wonder how that felt in the morning. 
Logged

I WIN
Quote from: my wife
Ok babe I surrender to u.  U may work me out till I drop

About the goat...
 His name was Bob, but the family called him BeelzeBob. 
make the beast with two backs goats.
rsoffar
Sr. Member
****
Offline Offline

Posts: 402


« Reply #8 on: July 11, 2012, 04:47:26 PM »

Looked like his shoe got caught up pretty good between the rearset and road, surprised he went without injury
Logged

'00 M900s
Slide Panda
Omnipotent Potentate
Post Whore
******
Offline Offline

Posts: 10137


Personal Pretext


« Reply #9 on: July 12, 2012, 05:55:21 AM »

Looked like his shoe got caught up pretty good between the rearset and road, surprised he went without injury

There is injured and there's hurt. He's lucky he wasn't injured - but I'm sure he was hurt the next day.

My read - he touched down the peg or other hard part and panicked. His panic reaction was, for whatever reason, to remove his hand from the bar. As a result he wasn't able to do a couple things that would have prevented the crash
1) More throttle - controlled addition of throttle would lift the bike suspension and tend to right right the bike
2) Use bars to right the bike - He had plenty of road on his side of the the dbl yellow and was nearing the exit of the turn.

He could have saved it. bike never lost traction - you can see in the slow mo version that the bike quite happily rights itself and might well have made it he'd actually fallen off.
Logged

-Throttle's on the right, so are the brakes.  Good luck.
- '00 M900S with all the farkles
- '08 KTM 690 StupidMoto
- '07 Triumph 675 Track bike.
Pages: [1]   Go Up
  Print  
 
Jump to:  


Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 1.1.21 | SMF © 2015, Simple Machines
Simple Audio Video Embedder
Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!
SimplePortal 2.1.1