Motorcycle Accident - Avenue

[Larry Gude]

Problem is, very few folks know where full on braking ends, and wipeout begins. How far can you really brake before you worsen the situation? Very few riders know that point. Same for car drivers, of course, maybe %10 have any real clue as to how far they can push their vehicle.

That is one of the things my instructors emphasized; get out there, learn your machine and work on simulating emergency stops. Push it.

I can promise this much; however quick the 'busa will stop is what I WILL find out before I ever think of getting off and taking my chances rolling across the ground. I guess dirt bikes and spasms of whiskey throttle that scared the ever loving crap out of me, saved em all so far, have taught me staying with the bike is the ONLY way to control the bike.

 

[glhs837]

Easy to say, as a lot of folks do, that you will be such a cautious rider that you will never be in such a pickle. As Heinlein said,

"A near infinite universe has a near infinite number of ways to kill you, a wise man is appropriately wary". Friend of mine has a new SUV, full size, he was getting to drive it alone for the first time today. Siad he was going to "get on it". I asked if that meant going really WOT, all the way to the floor. "All the way to the floor, I dont know about that".

When we talk again, I plan to explain beter. Somewhere, sometime, not of his choosing, his and his families lives could very well count on knowing exactly how much go he can get when he goes all out. And how fast he can stop, and exactly how far he can push for cornering. Finding those out then is too late. You will likely go too far, or not far enough.

 

[Larry Gude]

Easy to say, as a lot of folks do, that you will be such a cautious rider that you will never be in such a pickle. As Heinlein said,

My approach to getting my license was that the moment I do so, simply as a practical matter and in all likelihood, I am a dead man. From there, developing skills and gaining experience in addition to my judgment of where I ride and when, conditions, etc, are my tools to push back getting killed and minimize the opportunities and situations I can't/won't handle.

Something like 400 miles, one long road trip and 6 or 7 'around town' rides and I am not dead.