The Motorcycle riders thread

[Martbar]

Ha ha the four strokes were/are a lot more forgiving that's for sure.

 

[Jolls]

Grew up on 2 stroke dirt bikes, jumping on a mates 250 road bike for the first time I thought there was a problem with it, no power and no power band to blow your hair back. Needed to get up into the 750 range for something as perky.

Cheers n Beers
Jolls

 

[BrettP75]

So this fekkin happened to me on Thursday. Too much front brake and the bars dropped from under me. Broke my thumb which I guess is lucky could have been a lot worse.

 

[Jolls]

Glad you are OK and the safety gear did what it was designed to do.

 

[losh1971]

That sucks glad you weren't seriously hurt.
Curious as to too much front brake though? I drop down from 140kph-150kph and reef on the front brakes down to about 40, all in about 5-6 seconds so hard the back wheel can start to lift. Did the forks sack out, because that shouldn't happen I wouldn't have thought? Or was you already in a turn and too much brakes?

 

[markalan1two]

So this fekkin happened to me on Thursday. Too much front brake and the bars dropped from under me. Broke my thumb which I guess is lucky could have been a lot worse.

hope your ok and get well soon

 

[Deuce]

So this fekkin happened to me on Thursday. Too much front brake and the bars dropped from under me. Broke my thumb which I guess is lucky could have been a lot worse.

Good to see a quality shoei helmet.
Glad you are mostly unscathed.
Bike is repairable and you will ride again

 

[J_D 2.0]

Grew up on 2 stroke dirt bikes, jumping on a mates 250 road bike for the first time I thought there was a problem with it, no power and no power band to blow your hair back. Needed to get up into the 750 range for something as perky.

Cheers n Beers
Jolls

I used to have a Yammie YZ85 way back in the day. It used to be an ex competition bike so had a fair bit of power for an 85cc.

Brother in law kept giving me **** about how it didnt have any power because it was only an 85 so I let him have a ride of it. He proceeded to whisky throttle it straight out from under himself! Lol.

 

[Old_Starlight]

So this fekkin happened to me on Thursday. Too much front brake and the bars dropped from under me. Broke my thumb which I guess is lucky could have been a lot worse.

I tend to follow the Pilot mantra when it comes to riding a bike. Pilots say that "Any landing you walk away from is a good landing". You walked away so it was a good day. Look after the thumb and get back in the saddle.

 

[BrettP75]

That sucks glad you weren't seriously hurt.
Curious as to too much front brake though? I drop down from 140kph-150kph and reef on the front brakes down to about 40, all in about 5-6 seconds so hard the back wheel can start to lift. Did the forks sack out, because that shouldn't happen I wouldn't have thought? Or was you already in a turn and too much brakes?

Yeah already at max left lean angle ‍