MSF saved my life
 

Hey Guys, glad to be here to talk about it (rather than in a hospital bed or worse...)

So yesterday I was trying to fix the idle of my sister's Ninja 250. I rode down the hill on 3rd or 4th (bad idea) and I noticed I was going a tad fast and I knew a turn was coming up, so I downshifted to 2nd :icon_doh: while easing in the clutch....

needless to say, the bike started wobbling and it was right at the entrance of a turn.

I was scared as hell, thinking I am gonna down the bike, or worse do a high side when I hit the curb. (there was a parking lot about 10 feet below the road I was on, so yeah... that would've been bad).... and suddenly my training from MSF came back, bikes wanna go straight and don't slam on the brakes.

So I slowly depressed both front and rear brakes while applying progressively more on the rear and straighten the bike (even though i was aiming at the apex of the turn). the bike slowed down and I was able to drag my foot a little (with my boots) to keep myself from over correcting.

needless to say, it was a mistaken in my judgement and I should've kept the revs high instead of being on 4th gear at 2000rpm.

Glad to be alive, glad I took the MSF course, and sure glad that I decided to wear my boot and not my sneakers or flip flops.......


edit: btw chime in if what I did was still wrong =) it's better to look like a fool and get it wrong than to be on a stretcher....

nice save but rookie move... too bad not every one can take a msf class to learn that

Would need more info to offer any informed advice. But good save

gotta use your head. At least you learned something

Uh, I'm not entirely sure what you really did there, quite frankly not sure at all why you tried downshifting instead of braking!?