What happened (long)

Blimey,
GWS

Linger

 

I agree we all counter steer to some extent without realising it - however
what I'm trying to say is a deliberate push on the bars can be more
effective than jamming the brakes on and highsiding it.

Ah, as you were then - that scenario is well out of my comfort/capability
zone

 

Ah Sir needs a modern BMW I expect, K1200S perhaps, where braking forces
are isolated from steering geometry.

 

We need more clumsy cunts laid up at home with **** all else to do?

 

I also brake into corners a lot, and modern tyres and geometry make it

Thick I can take, but being a non snipping fucker?

Never said he wasn't competent or quick. We all make mistakes - if raising
the issues of avoiding highsiding helps some of the not so experienced
riders of this parish possibly avoid a similar scenario, IMO it's worth
doing.

 

Hog says...

<waves>

 

When do you expect to return to the fray then?

Have you had a chance to look at the Bindat and assess the point of
failure then?

 

Are you volunteering?

 

I've been participating in The Program for month I'll have you know,
clumsy or not.

 

My brother whilst losing the tail rotor on the jet ranger he was flying
decided to spiral 300 feet to the ground and suffered the same sort of-ish
damage [1]. He was out of work for 6 months, got better and went back flying
without regrets.

When asked if he would fly again, he replied "I'd be a **** not to, I enjoy
it too much and cost me to much to get the licenses"

He remembers the rotor removing itself and getting having to get some
airspeed as he was almost in a hover at the time, then doesn't remember a
lot till he got to the hospital [2]

When his boss ran to the wreck of the chopper he said whilst concussed "What
happened?" his boss replied "Calm down mate, you've had an accident", he
replied "I know I've had a fucking accident, what happened?"

So basically, take it easy, relax and get better and slow down in that
corner next time.

--
Benny

[1] When I drove from Vegas (where he lives) to LA where he was in hospital,
as I went out there for a holiday, when i saw him with the bruises and black
eyes, he look the spitting image of Beetle juice.
[2] Ex-pat mates bought him a toy jet ranger, jumped on it, bent it and
mangled it then hung it over his bed, the nurses were horrified as septics
have no sense of humor.

 

12, twelve? Feck, we set ours to a 5 minute delay!

 

Pretty amazing to survive an accident like that. Choppers do not appear
to have safety cells and most impacts are fatal.

 

But only for personal use?

 

Hog says...

Not a clue, still in lots of pain which is no better than it was two
weeks ago.

It's had no more than a cursory glance thrown at it now it's stuffed in
the back of the garage.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Ace belched forth and ejected the following:

Holy ****, Batman!

You ceratinly are lucky (or not) to be alive.

Who knows, you might not have lived to tell the tale had you not told
yourself to breathe!

Glad you're ok though. I guess you'll be in a car for a while.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Le Dieu belched forth and ejected the following:

Christ. You're like one of those blokes that comes upto you in the
street and says something like "I like bikes but I'm scared of them, my
mate died on one" etc. etc.

Keep the bike. There's no better therapy.

 

I get the feeling he wasn't aware enough to get the most out of the
experience

 

I've tried that one... snapped ACL was the result

 

I am. I could do with a couple of months with very little to do.

Phil

 

Bloody poor show, GWS.
Are you able to Cage it around or utterly grounded.