Re: What was your first crash in?
Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2020 8:43 pm
More motorcycle antics
Actually I had an off-road experience the first week I had that moped, having managed to hit the dizzy height of an indicated 40mph on the dual carriageway the big roundabout in front where I had to turn right was clear, I kept the throttle pinned wide open and leaned over, sadly it wasn't enough and on exiting the roundabout I hit the (luckily) sloped curb like the wall of death resulting in me landing it on the grass still lent over missing a lamp post before going back onto the road.....
I was all too cocky riding 250 and 350 trials bikes since I was 12 had given me a false sense of security and a learned a lot about road riding on that moped in that first week or 2.
I had an apparently spectacular trip into the scenery coming back absolutely shattered from a days green laning on my DT125LC, I think I had a micro sleep or lost attention and woke just as the road turned sharp right with a reasonably steep slope dotted with sheep in front of me. I stood up on the pegs as I left the road between 2 wooden posts completing a jump that would have made the grade in the Great Escape, I landed nicely then hard on the brakes and spun the bike round to jump back into the road.
Thank the lord the days of everybody having a camera in the car were the distant future I only had the laughing of those behind to contend with....
On an RD125LC (after the DT was stolen) whilst out doing my training for my bike test I was distracted by the radio cracking frantically in my ear and I glanced over my shoulder to see what was wrong. The instructor was trying to tell me to slow down as there was a sharp right ahead, realising this a bit too late I took it wall of death style and stopped in the next safe place for a dressing down, instructor was more impressed I had kept it together than in giving me a bollocking as no previous pupil had done that....
Actually I had an off-road experience the first week I had that moped, having managed to hit the dizzy height of an indicated 40mph on the dual carriageway the big roundabout in front where I had to turn right was clear, I kept the throttle pinned wide open and leaned over, sadly it wasn't enough and on exiting the roundabout I hit the (luckily) sloped curb like the wall of death resulting in me landing it on the grass still lent over missing a lamp post before going back onto the road.....
I was all too cocky riding 250 and 350 trials bikes since I was 12 had given me a false sense of security and a learned a lot about road riding on that moped in that first week or 2.
I had an apparently spectacular trip into the scenery coming back absolutely shattered from a days green laning on my DT125LC, I think I had a micro sleep or lost attention and woke just as the road turned sharp right with a reasonably steep slope dotted with sheep in front of me. I stood up on the pegs as I left the road between 2 wooden posts completing a jump that would have made the grade in the Great Escape, I landed nicely then hard on the brakes and spun the bike round to jump back into the road.
Thank the lord the days of everybody having a camera in the car were the distant future I only had the laughing of those behind to contend with....
On an RD125LC (after the DT was stolen) whilst out doing my training for my bike test I was distracted by the radio cracking frantically in my ear and I glanced over my shoulder to see what was wrong. The instructor was trying to tell me to slow down as there was a sharp right ahead, realising this a bit too late I took it wall of death style and stopped in the next safe place for a dressing down, instructor was more impressed I had kept it together than in giving me a bollocking as no previous pupil had done that....