MSF saved my life
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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 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....
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 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....
Last edited by cybaster; 08-20-2010 at 12:22 PM.
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