December 8th, 2017, 12:46 PM
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Name: Bill
Location: Port Huron, Michigan
Join Date: Mar 2017
Motorcycle(s): 2007 Kawasaki 250 Ninja, 1982 Honda Ascot FT500
Posts: A lot.
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Originally Posted by csmith12
Awesome luck you had there. Projectile debris, isn't something to be messing around with if it can be avoided. Kinetic energy is a killer... literally! Take any given mass and speed it up enough and it can equal the power of a nuclear device. On the flip side of that is what us bikers have to worry about often enough every day, aka for a given mass, a velocity coming to a very dramatic reduction. That is going from 100mph to 0mph in an instant. Or in layman's terms, it's not the fall that kills you, it's the sudden stop at the end. I believe there is a Mythbusters episode (linked here somewhere iirc) that shows a tire tread impact to a human. I also remember seeing a piece of debris hitting a track rider and knocking him out cold, causing a down. It's worthy of your time to watch either as a possible preventative action on your part. As riders, one of our main goals while riding is to have "plan b or an escape route on tap." Now we just need the reaction and speed of Superman to avoid such things. lol
Good luck out there, glad you got some new plastics and stay safe as possible.
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To this day I WILL NOT travel tucked-in behind a tractor trailer truck. Nearly all of them run recap tires.
Bill
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Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results each time.
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