what would you do

[Wolfie]

you are riding home tonight, left hand bend, medium lenght radius etc, in the dark roads are wet,covered in shit(why dont the feckin farmers clean up their feckin hedge clippings??) normal speed into the bend, normal lean angle roughly like this \ when the back end slides out and spins??

hold it and pray

shut the throttle off

brake

try to stand the bike up

open the throttle

or whatever


I know what i did, but what would you do and try to be honest.













































































i shit meself,





















froze as i was,




































and made it around the bend and felt like a feckin riding god 2 miles down the road after i had chucked me pants in the nearest bin.

 

[stan the man]

get rid of the AVON'S :dunno: %$fan well,ya didn't expect a serious answer did ya :}

 

[Wolfie]

no mate, not in the free and liberal coffee shop

 

[MickB]

Hold it or perhaps roll off the throttle a tiny bit if it's seems to be going away too fast and pray, a shitter at the time but usually works and you get the buzz afterwards exactly like you say. Then you can brag on here :neenaw: . I reckon on it happening a couple of times over the winter, if you fail you can blame the conditions and still be 'ard..

 

[Scalesy]

Honest answer with luck stay on without it fall off! Would roll off but apart from that probably do something really stupid like sticking me foot down and hold it up(not) think would suffer similar underwear disturbance.

 

[Centaur]

Experience

In my experience it's over before you can react. It either grips again and you sh*t youself or you are off. One exception for me was at Oulton a few years ago on a Firestorm when the back end let go at about 20-30 in the wet and I instinctively stuck a foot down and pushed her back up again. Lucky I did'nt break my freakin leg! Instincts huh. My mate behind me nearly fell off pissing himself at me. c7u8

 

[gerryc]

Recent experience said throttle off sphincter in and hope there were no witnesses. :blush: Have been known in the past to put my foot down maybe not the best idea but it stopped me going deckwards at the time.:dunno:

 

[Jaws]

In my head, sitting here, I would say reduce throttle very slightly and hope the tyre hooks up again..

In reality I would proly slam the fecker shut and promptly fall off !

 

[Jono]

Slam the throttle shut, sit it up, go across the road, thru the hedge, fall softly onto newly ploughed/soaked earth, roll dramatically away from the bike, sit up/visor up, hamlets out and begin humming that well know tune while lighting up. %$fan

 

[Bob Pinder]

In all honestly I would not have had ABBA playing quite so loud in my helmet which would have allowed me to concentrate on the primary job in hand.

Looks like you handled the situation just fine
:bow:

Move south - it never gets cold down my way

 

[D.S.]

In my head, sitting here, I would say reduce throttle very slightly and hope the tyre hooks up again..

In reality I would proly slam the fecker shut and promptly fall off !

yep, agree with Jaws on this one. However, interestingly, whilst at Cartagena in November on a 4-day track event I lost the rear momentarily coming out of a turn. Now I know the circumstances, weather conditions, bike, etc were different, but I'm glad my natural reaction (to shut off! ) was overidden & for once, I put into practice what I'd been taught. Must admit it felt good in a purely masachistic (sp?) sort of way :-:

 

[shaun]

just dont use the bike in winter

 

[Artemis]

One of my (many) instructors recommended leaning even further, as it hurts less coming off then :bang:

 

[D.S.]

One of my (many) instructors recommended leaning even further, as it hurts less coming off then :bang:

This theory is valid :yo: . I once binned the superbargebird on diesel in France. I was going up this mountain pass leaning the old barge over a bit, when suddenly (oops what's that smell of diesel ) down I went without even having the time to put my hand out; knee and shoulder on the ground, barge sliding along gracefully on R&G's and rear soft panniers.
Damage = Pride, stinky jacket, bent rear brake pedal and a bit of damage to the side panel and mirror housing .
Result = Coninue trip :-:

Also binned the track bike at Druids which didn't hurt as much as it should have :}

 

[Wolfie]

but if you throttle off do you not then have the risk of the feckin thing hooking up and highsiding you????


i just shat meself and let ingo what it whated.

AbbA do not enter my head space or being at any time bob it was the dropkick murphys :yo: :yo: :yo: :yo:

 

[MickB]

Yup, but the main replies say roll off a touch, not shut it off - that is being enough to stop/slow the slide from geting worse but not enough to let it dig in and highside. Lumpy got it right by saying you do whatever you do instinctively through experience, training or whatever else you don't get chance to think it through.

 

[blumeeni]

Drop two gears and whack open the throttle








































works for me R#?












































seriously I agree with Bill every time it's happened to me (avons mostly)it's over before I've had a chance to react. I've been lucky and kept upright so far I'm even starting to expect it and enjoy it
I had a moment the other day,to me it felt as if the back shifted a yard or more but Stan was fairly close behind and said later that he didn't even notice it happening.
Mind you he's half 8l1nd :} :}