Gravity is not your friend

martymoose

martymoose

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Took a tumble on the guzzi yesterday on my way home. Guy coming out of a side street, started to move, then stopped half way out when he saw me. I over braked, locked the front and went for the old bitumen sandwich. Not too much damage, might need a valet to park the Jota in the snowies. Know anyone called James?

ABS would have saved me, is it time for a modern bike? 

Steel rod and all the screws are still on the inside of my leg. Luckily I kept my walking stick.
 
Dear Marty,
sorry to read this but it seems you are almost fine.
My first bike accident is was the same the guy went-we stopped- he stopped- we went and he too.....Bad situation.
Hope you can enjoy the snowy run.
 
Damn! Never a good thing Marty. I hate that feeling when you just know it?s going down. Have had three of those car crossings my path from the sidestreet over the decades. Two were relatively  harmless but one was wake up to the sound of an ambulance siren. Glad you?re ok. I prefer to commute by bicycle but that?s not everyone?s cup of tea.
 
I've dropped more then enough bikes and suffered more then enough broken bones to know: "Gravity is not your best friend" ;o(

I rode Motorcycles scene I was a kid up and onto I was 70 years old and barely survived before I realized enough was enough and said: "Did it. Done It. Enough is Enough. Just QUIT."

Doesn't mean your loose of love a 2 wheeler and pass on the knowledge you have learned ;o)

I can't remember loosing a race but when I got married my Wife could not handle my hidden side so I had to give it up for her and my kids. Some 20 years later after their gone, I attempted to get back into it, what a joke to think I could, after a few years of touring and reaching 70, I quit, knowing I would never be the rider I once was.

Something instinctively in me as a racer and dangerous to be a tourour. I had to Quit.
 
That's bad luck Marty. If you'd have hit the car that pulled out, you could make a claim against him. If there was no contact, it's a lot more difficult getting the other bloke to accept responsibility.

I don't reckon I could lock the front wheel of my Guzzi if I used both hands on the lever. It still has the linked front/rear hydraulics so the hand lever only operates one disk.
 
Typical great timing. You're so easy to NOT see, its these idiots scared to be 5 minutes late to work that scare me. That's why tomorrow I will be Insanely easily to the Snowy Meet, to avoid these idiots.
 
Just hobbled to to the shed to take a look at the the lavuzzi, it crashes very well!  Head protector did its work, fold up tarozzi peg looks salvageable, little mark on the staintune muffler, that?s it.
 
That's why I bought a Tuono, got all the nannies, not just abs, but cranked over abs, traction control, wheelie control etc. Like most some of you I've crashed a few times, walk with a limp etc  and my Panther like reflexes aren't quite what they used to be at 72.
Still gotta ride though, but not ready to check out just yet.
Stu
 
Marty, sorry to read about your event, good that you and the bike got off lightly.
Old bikes, double front discs, and a heavy hand.
Twice been the cause of my woes, and always to my left knee.
Wonder whether it would have happened had it been a drummer?

Tom


 
My last time was slowing for a traffic light when 2 kids with a huge dog, Ridgeback I think, where on the side of the road, No lead on the dog, as I almost stopped the bloody dog charged me. So it was get bit or blow the light and hit a car, I hammered the brake and lost the front and crashed instead and the kids and dog just walked away with me abusing the hell out of them. By kids, I meant teenagers, arseholes with no lead on the dog.
 
It sounds like a bit of a could have been much worse scenario Marty. Had he not stopped it could have been far uglier.
How often do we practice these avoidance skills, they are central in all the refresher courses here that I have never done.
 
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