Well it happened. All my fault. Just leaving a parking lot accelerating to about 35ish around a really easy corner cold tires, cold pavement, little to much gas and a little bitty rock and i was done with. skidded for a good 5 feet until the rear caught and I high sided rolled the bitch on my ankle probably broke the bastard all cut up on the knees bike is bit messed on the left side im pissed i suck full gear though

 

That sucks man, sorry to hear about that. I hope you heal right up and that the bike is very fixable.

BTW, did you lock the rear end or was it just the traction wasn't there?

 

Sorry that happens to the best of us, just join the club

 

zero traction to much throttle (but i wasn't being a ****tard)

 

ROFLMAO!!! Not AT you, but with you, painful though it may be.

Best wishes for a speedy recovery for both you and the bike.

Mostly, I just had to respond to a post with that title. LMAO!!!

Funny, because it's true.

 

Welcome to the club dude. I went down about a week ago on some gravel and hurt my foot. NOT FUN. But you know what is fun, is fixing and upgrading your bike while you're healing up. Going down is a fact of life and good on ya for wearing your gear.

Come to think of it, I've read so many posts now about people going down because of cold tires, maybe a small burnout before each ride is in order. OK not really, but it would be funny. "Really officer, I was just trying to warm up my tires."

 

i think you all should practice some riding in wet grass...then when things like this come up...it's all good!

 

What's the proper way to correct this skidding?? (I'm a noob).
MSF told me to keep rear locked and try to keep bike straight then re-apply rear brake.
But they didn't tell me how to keep the bike straight.
Should I turn the bar toward the direction of skid? or would that make the bike to lean other way (countersteer)?
Thanks~

oh... should I practice on wet grass? or was it a joke?

 

This may not help, but here is what I know (which amounts to a pile of dung ):

If you are in a turn, the contact patch on your tire is busy negotiating the turn, and there is notalot of roomfor braking, too. Keep in mind, if you let off the gas, the engine compression acts the same way as the brakes, and uses up your contact patch that is busy gripping the road. In a turn, you have to stand it up, make sure your tires are tracking in a straight line, then you can apply the brake to be safe.I thinkthe cold tires and cold road are also a bad situation. If you hit some gravel or sand, there is really nothing you could do about that. Cold tires, cold road, gravel...sounds like you know what happened. Hope you feel better, and get your baby fixed up soon.

 

MSF told you that w/out clarification!??!?? I can see that method working if you slide on gravel or something if coming out of or going into a turn or even going straight but in a turn that method that doesn't make sense to me .. and the "reapplying" part can even possibly cause a highside if you're coming into it with a lot of speed. The basic logic behind that method is like how ABS brakes work and it will straighten out the bike in a turn but it's a dangerous method imo ... NEVER use the rear in a skid imnsho.

Tahoe is only half kidding .. this is why we always recommend dirt bikes if at all possible before street. Things such as sliding around a turn on dirt can help on street as well ... varies depending on the exact situation (amount of speed/lean etc...) but for the most part if you're in a turn of any significant amount and there's loose debris and you feel it going out from under you, common judgment applies in that if you use the rear brake you're going to lose the little traction left. It's actually better to throttle out of it (SMOOTHLY) if there's room to do so ... main thing, as always, is to look where you want to go.

[ smart *** remark ] Best advice is to stay off gravel in a corner. [ / end smart *** remark ]