December 29th, 2012, 10:55 AM | #1 |
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Low sided it on a slippery corner
Check speed, slow down for entry, start counter-steer, tyres loose grip, slide along! - I think their was some diesel on the road or my tyres as they feel very skitty the whole journey.
This shows how easy it is to happen, and how fast it happens when it does, I am just lucky my bike didn't end up in the sea, and a car wasn't coming the other way AND I WILL BE UPGRADING FROM THE STOCK TIRES AFTER THIS! As far as damage, having my panniers on protected the rear of the bike, the front left fairing will need replacing, as well as the indicator and the shifter and clutch lever. Vids after the jump. SIDE NOTE: Anything you would have done differently? Slow speed perhaps? For me, all I can't see I did anything wrong, any advise would help, but remember, hindsight is always 20/20 but looking back it's still a little fuzzy, as dave mustaine would say. |
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December 29th, 2012, 11:04 AM | #2 |
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sorry to hear about the crash,
how fast were you going?
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December 29th, 2012, 11:05 AM | #4 |
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Sorry to read and watch that
Did you get hurt?
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December 29th, 2012, 11:09 AM | #5 |
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December 29th, 2012, 11:16 AM | #6 |
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I believe that the trigger was that pavement's transition which did upset your front suspension.
A better line (avoiding the center of the lane where oil and diesel builds up) may have avoided the fall. Maybe many of those boats have Diesel engines and some road contamination comes from them. Glad that you are OK, Josh.
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December 29th, 2012, 11:17 AM | #7 |
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lost traction in a similar fashion near the end of a cloverleaf on ramp.
the road grease can really cut down your traction to minimal amounts in an instant. glad you are unhurt
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December 29th, 2012, 11:27 AM | #8 | |
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That photo explains a lot, it did literally just whip out from underneath me all of a sudden, hitting a strip of diesel was probably the cause. |
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December 29th, 2012, 11:33 AM | #9 |
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glad to hear you're okay.
only thing that stands out to me, is the line. personally, I'd have taken a different line due to the wall being there. It reduced your visibility of the road surface. As mentioned, on turns I tend to stay out of the middle of the road as well. I'd likely have chosen to take the inside tire path there, staying out of the slippery zone. |
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December 29th, 2012, 11:50 AM | #10 |
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It's funny i've taken that road about 150 times on that bike on each direction as I take it pretty much twice every weekend, always the same line, normally faster.
It was strange how easy the bike was to pick up, I must have been in shock as I picked up up from the handlebars one handed, i'm not a small guy by any stretch but I wouldn't usually lift something that heavy just like that. And I told a lie, I just did a survey of myself and it appears I have pulled my left pectoral and trapezius, and my foot feels as though I have twisted it a little. |
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1. you were on the wrong side of the street
2. full moon low tide 3. huge "L" (loser) sign on bike 4. need I say more?
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December 29th, 2012, 12:43 PM | #13 |
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Were you still applying any pressure to the front brake?
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OK - then slippery road surface it is. Confirm tire pressures to make sure that they are able to give their maximum performance. Keep in mind that those tires that are often considered better (like the Diablo Rosso II's, Bridgestone 003RS's, BT-016's, etc.) might not have any better wet and cold traction than the ones you have now. Their greater performance capabilities are at higher speeds, higher temps, and higher forces on the tires.
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be careful picking up the bike.
it is very easy to pull a muscle if you do it wrong.
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December 29th, 2012, 04:02 PM | #18 |
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Learn to wheelie the bike so you can just lift the front wheel right as it starts to slide out from under you.
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December 29th, 2012, 04:24 PM | #22 |
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Damn.. sorry to hear that.. I get a feeling of Deja Vu
In your case it really blows my mind away.. I would not have done anything differently The bike certainly slid a lot.. Here is my fall
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December 29th, 2012, 04:30 PM | #23 | |
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Looks like pretty much the same thing happened to the both of us, the front just went from underneath us, I was a bit lower than you when it happened to me, I think that may be why my bike just slid, I would have done the exact same as you also. I like your slow-mo, I may see if I can upload a slow-mo. Was yours expensive to repair? My jeans now have a nice "distressed" look to them, oh well, I'll have to wait till I am next in the USA to pick up some Levi 501's from Sears, the one decent thing america makes :P |
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Only counter steer with very very light pressure on wet surfaces. Try to get your weight off the bike and onto the inside peg to help steering.
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I am not too bummed out about this, it's a good excuse to start working on my bike instead of treating it like someone else's, I need to repair the cracks to my fairings, fill them a bit where it slid and paint them, i'll never match the green perfectly so I am thinking it's a good excuse to paint them black, although colour suggestions are welcome! I have a Ł250 excess on my insurance so it hardly seems worth claiming as all I need to do is bend the shifter back, repair the fairings "of which I already own everything to do so" and pop some new indicators on, I have brought a pair off ebay already! |
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Ok, mandatory damage pics, I am going to take a week off work sometime late January to get this all sorted out and fit the Scottoiler.
You can see where the shifter has been ground down to a sharp point at the top, it's a shame the vid didn't catch it but there were sparks galore! I put it in the bench vice and bent it back to a usable shape but it's pointing up too much still, I couldn't position it down as it was an awkward angle. The panel will need a bit of epoxy to raise it by a mm or so for sanding back to shape before paint. New bar ends, levers and indicators are in the post as I tap away! I need to replace the shifter lever, I may just make the dive and buy whole new rearsets, undecided. 2012-12-30_13-57-22_533.jpg 2012-12-30_13-57-40_858.jpg 2012-12-30_13-57-48_178.jpg 2012-12-30_15-10-49_335.jpg |
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December 30th, 2012, 10:33 AM | #29 |
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Another factor in both of those lowsides may have been the temperature. You need to drive a little slower and more conservative when you start out with cold tires and cold pavement. You have to let the tires warm up, for a few minutes at least, for a better grip on the road.
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December 30th, 2012, 10:45 AM | #31 |
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Bummer guys. Glad your good though.
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December 30th, 2012, 01:51 PM | #32 |
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Glad you're ok. You looked pretty cool during your slide! Reminded me of Mirror's Edge and how she slides down roofs and things!
There's some things I do to give me better traction in a corner: * I slide my bum a bit towards the edge of the seat in the direction I will be turning and position my body in alignment with my bum such that my spine is vertically aligned (not twisted up). This lets me get the same turn radius but with my bike more upright. More upright = more grip. * As I enter the corner I don't keep the throttle steady, I slowly and smoothly apply more throttle to load the rear suspension and lighten the front wheel. There is more available grip on your rear wheel than your front, so I increase throttle during the turn to make the rear wheel do more work than the front. Additionally, it seems that if you loose your rear, you have a chance of catching it before it completely slides away. If you loose your front -- unless you're a ninja -- you're going straight down, straight away. So it's better to over-use the rear wheel's traction than the front's. * I use my knees and legs to hold myself on the bike. My hands are on the bars but they don't support my weight at all; I can take my hands off the bars at any moment without falling forward. With my weight supported by my legs, the bars and subsequently the front wheel is free to move as it needs to / to navigate itself over the contours and bumps in the road surface. If the bars are holding your weight and are thus held stiff, then the wheel cannot move side to side as it naturally needs to. If I've said anything nonsensical then I hope someone will point it out! Slipper oil is slippery oil though. I try and spot it before I hit it so I can either slow down before going over it or avoid it altogether. It's not always that visible though In and around petrol stations are obviously more likely to have petrol on the road, so watch out there. |
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Roads were too wet for "sporty" riding.
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December 30th, 2012, 02:35 PM | #34 |
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Then it's ironic that was the slowest corner I took to go down on. My riding looks more sporty than it is as I see a lot of people point their heads up with helmet cams that makes you appear to be more upright, I maintain in-line with the bike which doesn't hide the lean angle and makes everything seem a bit sportier.
I'm happy to say I think I did everything fine, evidently I was going too fast for the level of grip or I wouldn't have come off, I reviewed the video in full length and coming up from the 6 minute mark I spotted about seven blobs of rainbowy diesel on the road so I can only guess it was due to reduced traction from a contaminated road surface. |
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