n10sive
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Today...I was ONE LUCKY BASTID!
The following is a short clip of my ride today and a near fatal mistake. I was riding my BMW R1200RT on group ride today on some new to me roads. I was following a GSXR 1000 and a busa to get them a little 'film time'. When we came to this particular corner, I fixated on the BIKE ahead and NOT THE TURN. The Gixxer got on it around the corner and me, being the dumb ass was fixated on the bike which pulled me into the corner too hot for my type of bike. Sometimes it's hard to go from a track bike (my SV650) to my street bike and not forget that my street bike does not do what my SV does. In the video you can hear the scraping start. I tried not to panic or chop the throttle or hit the breaks but tried to gently coax the bike around the corner and slow down gently. The apex tightened before I could accomplish this and the bike wound up sliding across the lane on hard parts instead of the tires. I was freaking LUCKY there was no oncoming traffic and that there was a hill there instead of a cliff (the next corner). It was a weekend and there was plenty of traffic this day. By all rights I should have been on the ground, and lucky not to be a hood ornament of one of the many 4X's pulling boats that we passed in the opposite direction.
My lesson? Ride my own pace and don't loose your concentration in corners.
FYI, this is Ice House Road between Wentworth Springs and Hwy 50 above Placerville.
So enjoy my OH FACK! moment :teeth
youtu.be/y-01JB0zsu8
The following is a short clip of my ride today and a near fatal mistake. I was riding my BMW R1200RT on group ride today on some new to me roads. I was following a GSXR 1000 and a busa to get them a little 'film time'. When we came to this particular corner, I fixated on the BIKE ahead and NOT THE TURN. The Gixxer got on it around the corner and me, being the dumb ass was fixated on the bike which pulled me into the corner too hot for my type of bike. Sometimes it's hard to go from a track bike (my SV650) to my street bike and not forget that my street bike does not do what my SV does. In the video you can hear the scraping start. I tried not to panic or chop the throttle or hit the breaks but tried to gently coax the bike around the corner and slow down gently. The apex tightened before I could accomplish this and the bike wound up sliding across the lane on hard parts instead of the tires. I was freaking LUCKY there was no oncoming traffic and that there was a hill there instead of a cliff (the next corner). It was a weekend and there was plenty of traffic this day. By all rights I should have been on the ground, and lucky not to be a hood ornament of one of the many 4X's pulling boats that we passed in the opposite direction.
My lesson? Ride my own pace and don't loose your concentration in corners.
FYI, this is Ice House Road between Wentworth Springs and Hwy 50 above Placerville.
So enjoy my OH FACK! moment :teeth
youtu.be/y-01JB0zsu8