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Be careful - its still slippy out there

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OlafTuono

Joined Jul 2009
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Co. Durham - England
Came to work on my T today (end of feb).

Roads 95 % dry.

Sarted to overtake a car, wound the power on gently & it started to wheel spin, got a bit sideways.

Nothing scarry, just a nice gradual slide from low revs, more like being on loose dirt than a road.

It certainly made the rest of the journey a bit more gentler than I planned.
 
As I mentioned on another thread, same thing happened to me on Monday on way to MOT station. That torque can catch you out..
 
hes taking the piss fd open the fecker up and hold on and i bet you will have a big grin **** roads or not
 
Yep, went out for a spin on the T a few weeks back, nice dry roads but took it steady, 2 mins from home chucked it in to a tight left hander a bit sharpish and had me ringpiece twitching like a rabbits nose when the front stepped out.

Probably only moved a few mm, but it scared the ***** out of me. Don't forget it's still Winter folks :thumbup
 
all this sunshine leads to a false sense of security, my son dropped his thundercat on saturday doing 60 on a normally easy gradual left hander. he's okay but the bike needs some serious attention, just waiting for the famous words 'dad can you loan me some money' lol! take it easy guys but enjoy all the same.
 
Yep, I know he is ******, and I thrash the living daylights out of the thing. Brooksy's right though, we get all giddy cos the currant bun's out, but there's not a lot of grip in some areas..Be safe kids.
 
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Brooksy, thats a bad start to his biking, but at least he is OK, espacially at that speed.

I can just imagine the lecture he got & all those still to come for you both off the missus.

Where did it happen, was he on his own ?
 
OlafTuono said:
Brooksy, thats a bad start to his biking, but at least he is OK, espacially at that speed.

I can just imagine the lecture he got & all those still to come for you both off the missus.

Where did it happen, was he on his own ?
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the last bend past the quarry comeing from Sherburn to Haswell Plough and he was on his own. must admit the missus has been fairly calm about it but i think that was because he was on his own as i was picking the T up from the garage and he has no patience. just glad he is okay and it hasnt put him off bikes, he even came out for a ride on the back of my mates Z750 on Sunday and that was a good run out :rolleyes
 
That bend can be a bit naughty, I am sure he was not the first & wont be the last to come a cropper there.

To qoute a well used phrase on here, at least he was not injured, bikes are much easier to repair than bones.

And hopefully will have learnt something from it.
 
PS I think a lot of new bikers don't take the right lines though. Left hander 60mph ride in the right hand side of car tyre track.
 
bay_1472 said:
What tyres did he have on there Brooksy???
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fitted with dunlop roadsmart, you are right about incorrect lines though. my thoughts are wrong line, panicked and wound it on to attempt to pull him through the bend as the damage to the bike is all right side (of a left hander ?) so a definite high side :eek
 
Highsider would have happened even if the rear had started slipping and would off the power so then rear gripped and threw him off. Seen it happen to my neighbour at 20 to 30mph as he'd sprayed scottoiler anticorrosion spray on hsi rear tyre by mistake.
 
Obviously only he will know what happened & this is only speculation, its not intended to comment on this accident.

Its too easy to panic at the thought of not getting round a bend, grabbing a hand full of front brake & losing confidence & sitting up.

New bikers just dont have the confidence in their tyres.

Best advice I was given was to look further round the bend & trust the tyres, using less brakes.

Sometimes its the last thing you feel like doing.

Unless there is some **** on the roads, fingers crossed it should work.

Safer lines with an inbuilt run-off factor helps, its an experience thing.
 
I was taught by an ex copper to ride and he said last thing to do is brake mid corner. Pretty much same as you just try and get around it without braking as you're more likely to get around there then scrubbing off speed mid corner as it alters the geometry of the bike. If you have to use the rear brake. On the T though you may as well stick your heel on the floor to try and scrub speed off

Saying that racers use brakes mid corner but they are racing bikes
 

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