a riddle for the clever ones

[frenchuk]

Here we go. You're on your bike, doing about 40mph, going straight. Road condition: cold but not freezing, no diesel patch, no ice, dry. Your tyres are warm. You power a bit because the traffic light you are about to reach just turned to orange. you have a sharp right turn coming in about 100 yards or so. All of a sudden the back end of your bike slides on the left, dropping you on the right side. You chain isn't broken, your rear brake didn't jam, nobody hit you. You don't remember what happened between the moment you powered out of the traffic light and the moment you skid and dropped.

The riddle is: what happened? what triggered the back end of your bike to slide remembering you were going straight? All answers welcome.

(please all jokers wait until answers have been provided before imposing your very funny humour on us, thanks)

 

[Codbasher]

Manhole/drain cover?
Metal stud in the road
Old cats eye
White line that was damp.

Guess the tyre pressures were OK and the rear wheel was in tight.

Are you sure nothing clipped you? Dark car, bike etc.

I take it the Police are none the wiser?

Will the bike be back on the road soon.

 

[Zoffo]

Something very similar has happened to me a couple of times but never had me off. I've blamed the rut you sometimes get in the road caused by cars rucking up the tarmac over long periods of time. You get a little ridge that the bike just don't like to be on and it squirms about if you happen to be right on top of it.

Maybe the combination of a squirt on the gas and the back wheel squirming of a ridge in the road?????

 

[Punchy]

Road Camber?
A friend of mine had a serious off when the bike dumped coolant in front of the rear wheel.

Roy

 

[derek kelly]

I once had a similar thing albeit on a Honda C90, I went over a bump in the road the force of the bump meant that my foot applied the rear brake, the bike just folded in half, the swinging arm had corroded through,
A colleague had a similar thing on a CG125 he told me that when he applied the brake the bike pulled to the right, when I had a look part of the weld on the swinging arm had come away

 

[gerryc]

Was it a box junction with raised yellow paint?

Possibly:

power + low coefficient of friction of painted surface + diagonal lines = backwheel sideways

 

[frenchuk]

no bump, no coolant, no manhole cover, no catseye, no white line, no rim, no metal stud. Haven't heard from police so far, bike fixable but I won't be able to ride her before about 2 months, got off quite lightely. Thanks for the guesses though, keep them coming ta! :bow:

 

[Coggy]

Black ice on a cold section of road?

 

[Coggy]

Ran over a dead and squashed furry animal?

 

[gerryc]

What condition was your clutch in?

If youre powering on and the clutch is slipping slightly, instinct tells you to power on some more to get through the light. the friction plates heat up and bind causing the tire to break traction with the cold road surface and the back end attempts to overtake the frontgoing sideways in the process.

Possibly clutching at straws here but for the bike to go sideways it would make sense that the wheel was spinning had it locked up while traveling straight it's likely to throw the rider forward before going deckwards.:dunno:

 

[Gatso shy]

Pi%%

Can we take the piss yet or is too soon ?

 

[D.S.]

Can we take the piss yet or is too soon ?

I can't contain myself anymore..................two words.............

DING DONG :} :} :}

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carrera, shoei, gone R#?

 

[Gatso shy]

OK best guess....

I reckon the most likely thing too have happened is

that you accelerated hard in 2nd , then shut the throttle

quickly, just as you turned right , this on cold tyres caused a loss

of adhesion on a worn road surface, thereby causing you and

your Blackbrd to part company. 8l1nd

 

[Punchy]

Sounds like ferk all wrong with the bike then...

must be a medical problem....

or over wanking thus draining all yer energy.....



8l1nd 8l1nd

 

[Codbasher]

Another thought, you say that the lights were at orange, could it be that you powered away to beat the lights, and you spun up on the diagonal bits in the road that house the induction loop for the lights, these are normally slightly raised and can be as slippery as white lines.

Did you come off at the lights or the bend? :dunno:

 

[stan the man]

GOING STRAIGHT well that's bert fooked then.... man8um

 

[Murt]

Was it a windy day ?
Gust of wind was forced between two buildings, making it even stronger.... cought back end of bike just as you put the power on :dunno:

Murt.

 

[RHINO]

Were they AVONs :dunno:

 

[Zoffo]

no bump, no coolant, no manhole cover, no catseye, no white line, no rim, no metal stud. Haven't heard from police so far, bike fixable but I won't be able to ride her before about 2 months, got off quite lightely. Thanks for the guesses though, keep them coming ta! :bow:

Fook I didn't realise this had actually happened to you. You havent recently done a track day have you. Once did one on my old GPZ (don't laugh) Wore the back tryre to fook but only on one side. Felt like it kept wanting to turn on me all the way home.
Glad there's no serious damage to you or the bike BTW.

 

[El Diablo]

Attention seeking.....

A: Did you throw yourself up the road, just to get attention ?


B : Did you ride under overhead electricity cables and your gay gloves

were magnetically attracted and pulled skyward along with you.......?


C : None of the above