CAUGHT ON CAM : friends rams into....
last sunday went for a nice ride...untill
last sunday went for a nice ride...untill
Damn man. DAMN! Really glad she is ok, this summer there seems to be way more motorcycle fatalities (maybe it is just that I am paying attention more to the news). Thank god she was wearing some gear!
I will assume she is a new rider? If so, what was she thinking leading? I completely understand why you were trying to chase her down. I am a noob myself, and the very few group rides I have been on, I let everyone know that.
Glad she's OK! Seemed like quite an impact!
One of my riding instructors (who used to be a racer) told me that when inexperienced riders take one or both feet off the foot pegs, it often lands them in trouble. Feet on the pegs allow the lower body security needed to ensure that your upper body is loose and you're smooth to counter steer and roll on the throttle. When an inexperienced rider start putting feet down, they teeter side to side on the seat and become ineffective at the controls. Not to mention they usually look down towards their feet to see how far off the ground they are. Feet up, chin up, etc. Just what he said.
Also, I don't mean to sound critical, given that I am a relatively new rider, but is it such a good idea to remain so close to (and sometimes straddle) the median, particularly coming up to and through left curves? Particularly when you add lean into the equation? All it takes is one boy racer or a driver with little experience/cold tires/excessive speed/FWD under steer/all of the above to run wide around one of those. Just a thought.
Happy to see her walk it off. It could've gone a lot worse.
Deff agreed. Always got to take pre cautionsit's part of advanced road riding to move outwards from a curv so you see more around the bend quicker, but yes your line has to be sacrificed for oncoming traffic, on a straight im usually just off middle closer to centre, so im away from things running out into the road and have a few more split seconds to react, again if a truck came or anything i'd be back to centre(and for a truck brace for potential wind blast from the trucks side after it passes)
it's all hazard perception isn't it, if i see water i slow down regardless if i know i can get over fine, you never know, what if loose sand is under the water, or a big hole that the water has filled...