rc51 and fzr400 video/crash
11-08-2006, 05:34 PM
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rc51 and fzr400 video/crash
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxWWbv9XXuA
this a video of my two friends goofing off in a school parking lot
this a video of my two friends goofing off in a school parking lot
11-08-2006, 07:48 PM
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11-09-2006, 07:29 AM
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Rider suffered no injuries, frame slider did its job and bike only suffered a broken brake lever...its a pretty trick bike, fzr600 motor, zx7 front end, zx7 swing arm, gsxr rear wheel, I got a few videos of him riding some long wheelies on an old service rode I will see if i can find em and post it
11-09-2006, 01:50 PM
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Well, my .02 worth, as a road racer who has been winning races for 30+ years: no idea of cornering lines, and fell off because he tried to accelerate and turn in tighter at the same time. There was plenty of tire on the ground.
11-09-2006, 02:00 PM
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Jeff (guy that crashed) is also a very experienced rider and has won some races himself, the front tire washed out because it was worn pretty good and just let go. But then again the most experienced guys crash all the time, just part of riding and pushing yourself to get better.
11-09-2006, 02:15 PM
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Heh heh heh: it used to be said in racing that if you never crash, you're not trying hard enough. But the response to that is that to finish first, first you must finish. (For both, see Valentino Rossi's season this year).
But, seriously, have a look at the lines...
But, seriously, have a look at the lines...
11-09-2006, 04:37 PM
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I think that's part of it. The other part, IMO, is that the guys who are really into it settle with scrubs, heat cycled tires, and ride on just plain worn tires because they can't afford new tires all the time. I've seen this happen more with my friends than anything else. #1 cause of wrecks I've seen are cold/worn tires.
11-09-2006, 05:38 PM
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#1 cause of accidents in my experience is just going too fast and not thinking. #2 is trying to do something you are not ready to do.
Then somewhere around #5 is faulty equipment. I ride around all the time on **** tires, with scrubs and plenty of distraction, and I'm still way more worried about #1 and #2.
Then somewhere around #5 is faulty equipment. I ride around all the time on **** tires, with scrubs and plenty of distraction, and I'm still way more worried about #1 and #2.
11-09-2006, 06:10 PM
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I agree w/ Loco on #1 and #2....#2 keeps me from trying to whip up the front tire....seen too many vids of wheelies gone wrong to risk watching my baby disintegrate on the street in front of me.
I just saw a vid showing a guy in a nice Dianese suit on what appeared to be a Bimota on a clean road, daylight....camera (on an adjacent bike) shows the guy shift, accelerate, then all of a sudden he wobbles slightly, obviously panics....puts his left foot on the street ala Fred Flintstone braking system and shortly thereafter smacks straight into a rock wall. WTF? How do you put in the time and money to get a nice bike, nice leathers & helmet and not have a freakin' clue how to operate your ride???? Not to be unsympathetic to the guy, I hope he's ok, just getting tired of watching people ride beyond their abilities and sticking the rest of us with a reckless rep.....oh wait....this isn't the RANT forum!
I just saw a vid showing a guy in a nice Dianese suit on what appeared to be a Bimota on a clean road, daylight....camera (on an adjacent bike) shows the guy shift, accelerate, then all of a sudden he wobbles slightly, obviously panics....puts his left foot on the street ala Fred Flintstone braking system and shortly thereafter smacks straight into a rock wall. WTF? How do you put in the time and money to get a nice bike, nice leathers & helmet and not have a freakin' clue how to operate your ride???? Not to be unsympathetic to the guy, I hope he's ok, just getting tired of watching people ride beyond their abilities and sticking the rest of us with a reckless rep.....oh wait....this isn't the RANT forum!
11-09-2006, 07:28 PM
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OK OK OK: here's my best crash story, and it is true. In 1971 (speaking of Fred Flintstone...) I was a law student in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand. This is a cold part of the country and snows in winter, unlike the more temperate part of NZ where I now live. But we all rode our bikes year-round.
At that time I had a 10-year-old Triumph Thunderbird, which was the greatest pile of dung yet dumped on me. Nevertheless, it went well enough for me to win a gravel road hillclimb on it.
So, I rode the dungheap down to an 8am lecture one dark winter day, came out of the lecture at 9am and kickstarted. The engine vibrations then caused the Thunderguts to slip sideways on the ice and the oil that had dripped out in the hour. I fell off a stationary motorcycle. Oh how my classmates did laugh. Oh how I kicked that pile of dung.
The lesson is: some bikes are so bad that any speed is too great for safety. The relevant issues, however, are all modification ones. I literally cannot think of any standard motorcycle made in the last 40 years that you could say was intrinsically unsafe.
But, as is clear from the last posting above, there are some riders for whom you can say that any speed is unsafe.
PS I have a great number of friends who do 15,000km-plus a year each on sport bikes and have not crashed on the road for 20 years or more. Crashing is not inevitable, as some seem to suggest.
Sorry about the lecture; hangover from the far-off days when I ran both a road school and a roadrace school.
At that time I had a 10-year-old Triumph Thunderbird, which was the greatest pile of dung yet dumped on me. Nevertheless, it went well enough for me to win a gravel road hillclimb on it.
So, I rode the dungheap down to an 8am lecture one dark winter day, came out of the lecture at 9am and kickstarted. The engine vibrations then caused the Thunderguts to slip sideways on the ice and the oil that had dripped out in the hour. I fell off a stationary motorcycle. Oh how my classmates did laugh. Oh how I kicked that pile of dung.
The lesson is: some bikes are so bad that any speed is too great for safety. The relevant issues, however, are all modification ones. I literally cannot think of any standard motorcycle made in the last 40 years that you could say was intrinsically unsafe.
But, as is clear from the last posting above, there are some riders for whom you can say that any speed is unsafe.
PS I have a great number of friends who do 15,000km-plus a year each on sport bikes and have not crashed on the road for 20 years or more. Crashing is not inevitable, as some seem to suggest.
Sorry about the lecture; hangover from the far-off days when I ran both a road school and a roadrace school.
11-10-2006, 06:40 AM
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11-10-2006, 06:41 AM
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Careful now, you just jinxed your friends. Remember gravity NEVER stops working and your friends are human therefore not perfect (but pretty close!). :-)
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