Bikers Youtube thread
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My wife tried to do that on a hairpin corner in Italy without any rails that led to a 2km fall off a mountain. I think that was the biggest brown trouser moment I've ever had on the bike, and I have it on video! I'll edit and post it up one day.
I was actually referring to the first video though in my comment.
Eeek! Yeah, it's horrible when it happens. More so when there's a few hundred meter drop
Ah right. That one looks a bit bumpy, tyres might be a bit ****? Either way, it says that he braked... why? haha.
the brake in a turn one given how it seems to instant lock up, i can only think he's done something ith his breaks.
changed piston ratios/wrong pads/bad install something that meant a little bit of break = full lock
yeah you can hear the front wheel locking on the first video...
I sometimes take a pillion, I have a friend that she is the best pillion you can have, you don't feel that you were caring someone and on the other hand my ex-girlfriend was the worst, every time I would try to do a corner she would try to force the bike straight up, one of the reasons she is the EX
I sometimes take a pillion, I have a friend that she is the best pillion you can have, you don't feel that you were caring someone and on the other hand my ex-girlfriend was the worst, every time I would try to do a corner she would try to force the bike straight up, one of the reasons she is the EX
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See, Corsa drivers are all the same around the world...
Good god, those would barely register as corners, how do these people learn to ride?!
That first video, there is 100% no reason at all why he would need to brake.
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Completely pointless but looks like fun.
I recommend you mute the video unless you can withstand listening to dubstep.
I recommend you mute the video unless you can withstand listening to dubstep.
It's easy to pick holes in riding as observers but oh boy does it happen to everyone....sometimes you get away with it, sometimes you do not!
Target fixation is so very easily done, even for experienced riders, the experience comes in drilling yourself into recognising mistakes as you make them and trying to resolve before it all goes wrong.
I've gone into corners too hot and had to tell myself in my head to tip in, keep it smooth and look where I want to go...not at the outside of the corner.
Sometimes mental blocks stop you doing what you know you should, those nagging fears in the back of your mind which mess up what you should be doing. I can do it in the wet for example, taking a bend and see greasy drain covers, your fears can take over (in this case grip concerns) and you are looking in the wrong place, chopping the throttle, standing the bike up instead of keeping it on line etc etc!
I've almost stuffed it into the outside bend on a left hander in Europe, double apex in a tunnel caught me out and I fixated on the wall. Told myself in my head "Look where you want to go you bell!" and didn't run wide. Could have easily gone the other way. It's why I fell the "never ride at 10/10ths" rule for the road is so important, you need margin for error for when you sod it all up! (And you will sod something up!)
Target fixation is so very easily done, even for experienced riders, the experience comes in drilling yourself into recognising mistakes as you make them and trying to resolve before it all goes wrong.
I've gone into corners too hot and had to tell myself in my head to tip in, keep it smooth and look where I want to go...not at the outside of the corner.
Sometimes mental blocks stop you doing what you know you should, those nagging fears in the back of your mind which mess up what you should be doing. I can do it in the wet for example, taking a bend and see greasy drain covers, your fears can take over (in this case grip concerns) and you are looking in the wrong place, chopping the throttle, standing the bike up instead of keeping it on line etc etc!
I've almost stuffed it into the outside bend on a left hander in Europe, double apex in a tunnel caught me out and I fixated on the wall. Told myself in my head "Look where you want to go you bell!" and didn't run wide. Could have easily gone the other way. It's why I fell the "never ride at 10/10ths" rule for the road is so important, you need margin for error for when you sod it all up! (And you will sod something up!)
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