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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Stig / Major Tom on February 27, 2023, 01:57:54 PM
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"single vehicle" = just you, on two wheels - not touched by another vehicle.
I ask because we just had a day of warm weather - and then it was reported that two HD riders 'left the roadway' in separate single vehicle accidents.
Riders do not like to admit to "rider error", but I think it happens, often.
My example: I had one 'off' in 1968 when a senior turned left in my path. I over-braked and low-sided my Honda motorcycle. Nothing since.
Stig
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Just the one Stig, which I've reported on here before when I hit a patch of diesel on a bend whilst cranked over and doing around 60 mph. Ouch, multiple bruising to both me and my ego. Walked away owing to ATGATT. Take note all you shorts & flip flop riders.
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I've had a few. My first was hitting a rock in the road and the bike went into a tankslapper. Another was braking for a light in the rain and I stayed in the center of the lane. When I got near the intersection and hit that oil that often builds up there I went down at low speed.
Let's see, I hit a deer at about 65 MPH.
I leaned my Super 8 too far and levered the tires off the ground and slid into a ditch.
I have gone down a bunch of times in the dirt but those don't really count.
So far I have walked away from every accident I have had.
Except for the deer they were rider error on my part.
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I've had a few. My first was hitting a rock in the road and the bike went into a tankslapper. Another was braking for a light in the rain and I stayed in the center of the lane. When I got near the intersection and hit that oil that often builds up there I went down at low speed.
Let's see, I hit a deer at about 65 MPH.
I leaned my Super 8 too far and levered the tires off the ground and slid into a ditch.
I have gone down a bunch of times in the dirt but those don't really count.
So far I have walked away from every accident I have had.
Except for the deer they were rider error on my part.
Very honest of you Klav! Then with the number of miles you do each year statistically alone you have to expect the odd whoopsie.
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couple lowsides for me, but nothing I couldn't ride away from
my first, I was in Roanoke VA, going east on a controlled access toward the BRP entrance, waaay over speed limit, I passed a 1ton truck and suddenly I see the entrance, the pavement surface had more asphalt than aggregate, a big wide tar snake, I was drifting at a good lean, when the granite curbing caught my eye, and I said to myself that curb is gonna turn this lowside into a highside, I stood it up and hit the wet grass median, and immediatly sliding on my side, I had a huge U-bag strapped to the back, I slid over 150ft, grass stains on my stitch and a little road rash on my front turn signal, headlight out of aim. The incident was more like a carnival ride than a crash
my other lowside, closer to home, I just leaned too far taking a left turn from a light, rainy and plenty of oil in the road. I broke my shifter on that one
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Two slow, low sides in the first two years of riding, 1960 and '62. One low side in 2009 on the Yager. Got slow in a U turn and fell inside.
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Didn’t list the walking pace get offs Karl. I’ve had one or two embarrassing drops down the years, the most excruciating being on the Isle of Man outside Laxey Wheel during TT week. Triumph Sprint and I set off with the disc lock still in place 😳 About 200 witnesses…
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All my offs have been single person offs.
My personal favourite was crashing my C90 (passport 90) into a flower bed in front of B&Q
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Very honest of you Klav! Then with the number of miles you do each year statistically alone you have to expect the odd whoopsie.
Oops, I forgot one from a couple of years ago. I was riding my Versys 650 down one of the steepest roads in Georgia. I wanted stop and get a pic of my friend coming down the mountain. I pulled off on a gravel area next to the road. It was steep and uneven. When I tried to stop my tires just slid. I managed to get the bike stopped and then for some reason I leaned to the right and when I put my right foot down I found nothing but air and I just toppled over. I put a few scratches on my bike but the only injury I got was a blow to my ego.
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Thought this might fit well with this thread?
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Thought this might fit well with this thread?
....'time he gets done sliding in all that leather - he'll smell like a grilled steak!
Stig
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I pulled off the 4 lane at a pretty low speed to get out my cell & make a call. I didn't realize soon enough that the shoulder was freshly graveled and deep. The front wheel sank in far enough it wouldn't roll and down I went. Very embarrassing.
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I guess a soft landing though eh?
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I pulled off the 4 lane at a pretty low speed to get out my cell & make a call. I didn't realize soon enough that the shoulder was freshly graveled and deep. The front wheel sank in far enough it wouldn't roll and down I went. Very embarrassing.
I remember someone telling me a story similar to this. He pulled off the road onto the soft shoulder and his bike just sank into it. He didn't fall but he was stuck and couldn't get out. A cowboy came along and pulled him out with his horse!
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A cowboy came along and pulled him out with his horse!
Which goes to show there are times when 1 HP is enough!
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I remember someone telling me a story similar to this. He pulled off the road onto the soft shoulder and his bike just sank into it. He didn't fall but he was stuck and couldn't get out. A cowboy came along and pulled him out with his horse!
I remember watching a short video of a young gal riding out 50 yards, and then back on a brand new Vespa .....locked the tire in small area of grit and down it went...clanging & sliding onto it's lovely metal side!
Stig
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I have slid off my bike a couple of times, Once was when I hit an oil patch in the road and another was when the road was Icy. I learned the hard way not to apply tire shine to motorcycle tires; I ended up sliding off while going out to work, luckily for me no damage was done to my scooter and I escape unharmed other than a couple of scrapes on my riding gear.
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One time I tried going into a parking garage. Took my ticket and waited for the gate to go up; started to enter the garage and saw the gate drop down too early. It caught me in the upper chest and I did a back flip off my scooter. Fortunately, rider and bike we fine. When I left the garage, I walked the scooter past the gate just to be safe.
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Just posted on another group about one of my other emabarassing get offs:
"Think the question asked and answered now. My only contribution being "We've all been there" whether we care to admit it or not! My own whoopsie in the work car park back in the 80's was trying to U turn a BMWK100RS with a cold engine. It stalled, the transmission locked solid and 220kgs of Bavarian engineering dropped on my leg. Much embarrassment 😬 as I waited for colleagues to come along and lift it off me."
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A memorable 'off' involved the WidowMaker - that 1960's Kawasaki Mach III. 499cc's, 60 HP. No brakes and a flexi-frame -
I watched a fellow medic trainee at Ft Sam Houston drop the clutch and put his new III onto the hood of a car in a parking lot!
I recall that dealers were cautioned to give some instruction to new owners.
2 strokes of excitement!
Stig
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I've had a couple, in Roanoke VA, I had an oh sh!t moment, that's my turn, then a curve where the pavement had more asphalt than aggregate. Low side, grass stains on my gear, headlamp out of aim
my next, intersection in Barrington, NH, turning left in the rain, leaned to far for the amount of oil dripped from cars/trucks, I was sitting in road, bike at curb with broken shifter
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A couple of years ago - my youngest son stopped by to pick up his Honda CB500X from my garage.
It was his first spring ride after a cold winter.
He was back in about 8 minutes....rear of his riding jeans and palm of one glove and leather elbow scoured. Some shifter stuff bent. Accessory pegs took the hit - not the bike.
"Sand in the intersection!"
Right.
Youth, actually - with too little imagination....trying to GP a turn.
Embarrassed - sitting in the middle of a large intersection, watching his bike slide down the road.
@ $35 for some new Honda parts - readily in stock (so unlike any brand of scooter!)
Stig
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2 strokes of excitement!
Stig
A 500cc 2 stroke? Puts me in mind of a neighbour where I lived in the 80's who bought a Yamaha YPVS RD500 LC which was a legendary, high-performance, two-stroke V4 motorcycle produced in the mid-1980s, designed as a street-legal replica of Yamaha's 500cc Grand Prix racing machines. (This while I was riding a very pedestrian Honda CX500 based Silver Wing.) Oh boy did the ear-splitting crackle from those exhaust pipes sound sweet! Never actually saw him ride it...
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Two years ago, I was rolling slowly in a parking lot and sideswiped a drainage grate. I laid my X-Town 300 down easily on my leg. Luckily, I was able to get up with no damage. The problem was I was 80 years old and could not pick up the scooter. That's when I traded for the smaller and lighter People S 150 I now ride.
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I can empathise Mike. Those X-Towns weigh in at some 430 lbs / 195 kg dry and that's no mean lift at any age! Fortunately I never laid mine down. I've watched all the videos about how to lift a 500lbs motorcycle, but never had to employ those techniques so far and hope I never do.
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Two years ago, I was rolling slowly in a parking lot and sideswiped a drainage grate. I laid my X-Town 300 down easily on my leg. Luckily, I was able to get up with no damage. The problem was I was 80 years old and could not pick up the scooter. That's when I traded for the smaller and lighter People S 150 I now ride.
I remember my reaction when my new Burgman was rolled off the trailer onto my driveway. I went to roll it into the shade....and, "man this thing is heavy!"
My Kymco is @250lbs - and a 'wet' Burgman is right at 500lbs!
I wondered how many of those 400cc's were needed just to haul itself around!
Stig
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my AK550 is a few pounds heavier than my V-Strom 1000 dry, but V-Strom holds more fuel, wet the Vee is heavier 525 more or less