Author Topic: Ouch (Read 5811 times)

stevee_p · « **on:** March 26, 2014, 19:45:09 »

Silly riding with predictable ending...

Jacko · « **Reply #1 on:** March 26, 2014, 20:22:01 »

Target fixation. I'm not condoning his riding, but the way he was riding previous to the off he could have easily tightened that turn, he saw the car and panicked, lucky chap.

It looks a lot like The Cat and Fiddle, complete with average speed cameras.

macvisual · « **Reply #2 on:** March 26, 2014, 20:29:55 »

wOw he got that wrong big style, that could have been a fatal.

Lucky boyo......!!!!!!

Sharpy · « **Reply #3 on:** March 26, 2014, 20:30:42 »

I know that road and the corner well, its tightens and is easy to get wrong but agreed target fixation... But the riding was quick but I have seen (and done a lot worse).

In the end he made the right decision to go on the road, low wall (relatively) soft landing.

It is indeed the cat and fiddle.

UK_Vstrom650 · « **Reply #4 on:** March 26, 2014, 20:33:08 »

He's lucky he didn't kill himself and the car driver... ride like a twat, die like a twat...!

Hugo Magnus · « **Reply #5 on:** March 26, 2014, 20:36:02 »

He made the right choice

Sharpy · « **Reply #6 on:** March 26, 2014, 20:36:40 »

Quote from: "UK_Vstrom650"

ride like a twat, die like a twat...!

that's me told then...

tallpaul · « **Reply #7 on:** March 26, 2014, 20:43:03 »

Complete pussy that I am, for some reason I always watch videos like this with a sense of terror! I don't know why either because you know from the title that he's going to bin it! The white and green rolling over bit looked the the special effects from an eastern European 'b' movie. Bloke gets on bike. Bloke rides bike like a nob. Captain Predictable strikes again...

UK_Vstrom650 · « **Reply #8 on:** March 26, 2014, 20:49:33 »

May have been harsh but hope you learned a lesson

Sharpy · « **Reply #9 on:** March 26, 2014, 20:54:23 »

I am older and wiser now... I got lucky many times.

Although I never overtake on white lines... even when I was a rebel!

PHIL FAT · « **Reply #10 on:** March 27, 2014, 03:59:01 »

looks to me you are still a rebel but maybe a little bit wiser now so ride safe and keep off the white lines you know it makes sense rember a cat has nine lives you only have ONE

Jacko · « **Reply #11 on:** March 27, 2014, 06:43:52 »

Thank God none of you lot have ever seen me ride the mountain section on the TT course, I'd be in for one hell of a telling off...

The CAF is a challenging road, you up the stakes if you ride like that, but you could see the line that bend took by following the line across the field, he should have been ready for that. He'd actually negotiated tougher sections earlier in the clip. The cameras are now on up there, they weren't for the first year or so, but over the really bendy sections you'd have to be a bloody good rider to even average 50mph. The cameras look like they've been positioned by a biker. :D

Sharpy · « **Reply #12 on:** March 27, 2014, 07:37:54 »

Quote from: "Jacko"

The cameras are now on up there, they weren't for the first year or so, but over the really bendy sections you'd have to be a bloody good rider to even average 50mph. The cameras look like they've been positioned by a biker. :D

This is definitely the case, certainly if you don't go flat out on the straight bits 50mph+ would be very difficult, a number of sections 40mph+ would be a challenge for most average joe's, I include myself in that.

I did wonder how much they would actually deter people.

stevee_p · « **Reply #13 on:** March 27, 2014, 09:09:25 »

Just to clarify, it's not me on the video, I just saw it on another forum and reposted it here for your thoughts etc.

He was going too fast for his ability / that corner, no other explanation needed.

Mel · « **Reply #14 on:** March 28, 2014, 06:01:03 »

Scary! But I loved the monkeywalk in the end... ; )

SimonW · « **Reply #15 on:** March 28, 2014, 20:10:48 »

Jacko - have you ridden the TT course? In anger? What's it like?

Jacko · « **Reply #16 on:** March 28, 2014, 20:53:33 »

I haven't ridden a closed course, no, an ACU licence is required. I have, however, ridden the course in March, when no events are on, so it's quiet. Outside of the towns there's no speed limit, the mountain section from Ramsey to Douglas is limit free, I have ridden that with carefree abandon, quite a few times, two way traffic and the Police will still nick you for being an arse though. Through most of it you can see if there's anything coming so you know you can wind it on and use all the road, blind left hand bends you need to back off a little for in case you can't run out wide on the exit.

It's very liberating to just be able to concentrate on not killing yourself without the added worry that there might be a copper sat behind a hedge. The Shell grip at The Bungalow was a highlight, and the run down to Creg with the bump that lifts the front if you're knocking on too, takes some stopping to not end up in the bar though

Here are some pics.

http://s123.photobucket.com/user/Jacko ... t=3&page=1

The bloke with the Panigale on the ferry was Adam Child, we met him on the way over and chatted with him for a while about the Island and how going over to ride the TT course on one of the only Panigales in the country wasn't a proper job. He passed us a few times on the mountain too, following Milky Quayle on a Fireblade, doing about 150, he was learning the course for his debut as a TT racer that year in the supertwins.

SimonW · « **Reply #17 on:** March 28, 2014, 22:33:57 »

Nice!

Jacko · « **Reply #18 on:** March 29, 2014, 07:30:49 »

I'm running out of challenges as far as road riding is concerned Simon, there's still loads of Europe I've yet to ride but it'll not present anything new really, more mountain passes, more snow etc. as spectacular as Western Europe is, of course.

It's why I made a, timely it seems, move to the increasingly popular adventure bike scene, it's like I've started again, I'm a noob, I know nothing, it's great. A whole world of new challenges have opened up since I bought my Glee and met folk on here, I'm grateful for the opportunity.

SimonW · « **Reply #19 on:** March 30, 2014, 00:00:31 »

I don't have the courage or skill to ride sports bikes (but I do enjoy watching them). Part of the fun of "adventure" biking for me has been exploring loads of Kent's tiny roads, rediscovering places I'd forgotten and discovering amazingingly pretty new ones, all within a 50 mile radius of my house!