What happened (long)

You lucky, lucky ****. You live somewhere most of us are lucky to see
on holiday once a year.

Consider your ribs prodded.

 

Couldn't agree more.

Likewise.

 

actually, are you sure it was the tyres? Could have been Des lurking
at the side of the road waiting to shove a scaffolding pole between
the spokes of your front wheel.

 

Champ says...

I like to think positive.

 

GWS FFS. And don't do it again, huh?


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My cousin is 12 months on from a car smash that left her with a
similarly long list of damage. It's a *long* way back from something
like that and you're obviously aware of this.

One day at a time, and glad you're OK ...

.... you clumsy ****.

 

OK so do you think this was a case of target fixation and panic braking?
or was your speed such that it was impossible to carve any line around
the bend?

I only ask because years of SOB and TT100 type tyres had drummed in the
mantra of getting off the brakes before peeling in. Subsequent track
tuition proved it was possible to start heeling in while hard on the
anchors gradually releasing the pressure as you approach maximum lean.
I regularly brake into a corner now, partly a play off with greater
lean, when the corner appears to be tightening. Partly controlling long
travel suspension unwinding quickly.

 

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Unlucky or clumsy, whatever.

GWS

 

Saved your life? Possibly. Saved you from paralysis? Almost certainly.

You're one lucky SOB.

GWS.

 

To survive, maybe. To be spat into an Armco barrier at 50+eek mph?
That isn't what I call lucky.

My thinking too. All of the other times when I got away with it were
the lucky ones.

I also brake into corners a lot, and modern tyres and geometry make it
perfectly do-able. In this case though, I was still on maximum braking
at, and beyond, the turn-in point, so there was no more grip to give.
In fact, of course, I might well have been better of doing so, but
that's only based on what I actually hit. Had I been a bit further
ahead I'd probably have gone right over the Armco, with little more
damage than a few bruises.

 

Damn, I never looked. That's certainly what it felt like, so I reckon
you could be onto something here.

 

Naah, that's not the attitude. I'll be skiing by January, latest.

Yupp.

 

I'd be amazingly surprised if Ace didn't ride again.

 

I'd be amazingly surprised if Ace didn't ride a bit slower, even if
only round that one particular corner.

I do like the detail that they took the opportunity to sort out his
hair whilst he was under sedation - a similar thing happened to one of
my gran's somewhat matted cats. I take it he used to spit and scratch
at people if they tried to cut it whilst he was concious ( and then
piss on their coats in revenge).

 

catman wrote

He can do it again if he likes, in fact he can do it until it is simply
not funny any more if he wants.

 

Ace wrote:
Had I been a bit further

That would have earned a lot more points in 'artistic interpretation'
stakes.

 

Unlucky/lucky - whatever - you're still in one loosely assembled piece.

You're scenario is probably a case for using counter steering. I've over
cooked it a couple of times and got away with it by counter steering - with
a judicious shove of the bars it's amazing just how far the bike will go
over before the tyres let go. [1].

However, I fully expect the racing types will be along in a minute to tell
me I'm talking bollocks.

[1] it doesn't always work #8-(

 

I'm planning my revenge on the Nurses concerned.

 

You're talking bollocks, I'm afraid. Countersteering is just what we
all do all of the time anyway, although being aware of how it works
can help with more precision and control. But it won't make any
difference to the amount of mechanical grip available through the
tyres.

It's clear that there _was_ slightly more grip available, otherwise it
would have washed out instead of stoppying, but I'd defy _anybody_ to
be physically, let alone mentally, capable of dropping a bike into a
bend with 90%+ of front anchors applied. The forces working against
this are just too strong.

IANART, but yes.

 

I was only looking at google's stats last night and thinking about the
drop in throughput here over the last couple of years. If you could
manage say, seven thousand posts a month, we'll be back on course.

Good to see you posting again though, you clumsy fucker.