Topic: Guy beefing it on the dragon

[cb350twin]

Ouch

http://jalopnik.com/5168730/stop+motion-motorcycle-collision-on-tail-of-the-dragon?skyline=true&s=i

[HavocTurbo]

at least he had on some gear. i cannot count how many times we have gone down there with guys only wearing short sleeves and shorts.

[DammitDan]

It looks like he misjudged the curve, saw the car coming, grabbed a handful of brake and stood the bike up.  Sent him straight into oncoming traffic.  Fortunately it looks like he wasn't going too fast (he travels farther than the bike does), but it still had to hurt.  And while he was at least wearing a jacket, those jeans and tennis shoes (or at least the one he's still wearing) certainly won't do much for him.  I speak from experience 

[tramp]

looked like he was riding with someone
wonder if his bud turned around?

[1timduke]

Lucky he wasn't a little more to the left, would've been toast sho-nuff.

-Tim

[DammitDan]

Heh, when I "beefed it" on the Dragon it took my buddy riding ahead of me about 5 minutes to realize I wasn't behind him anymore  

My XS850 didn't have its front forks adjusted properly, so the bike was slung about 3" too low on the front to begin with.  Add to that a front-brake and hard dive to the right, and my 3-1 collector dragged and lifted the back wheel off the ground.  I grabbed front brake and got the back wheel back on the ground, managed to keep the bike up but the damage was already done.... I zipped across oncoming the oncoming lane (fortunately no oncoming traffic  !!), put it down in the gravel on the other side and went a few feet down into the ditch.

I added my contribution, broken right mirror, to the Tree of Shame and rode the 350 miles back home with a gerry-rigged broken throttle cable.

Note heavy leather hiking boots, quality riding pants, (and back on the bike) heavy 1.8mm leather riding jacket, leather gloves and full-face helmet.  All of which kept me riding that day.  That gravel would have totally destroyed me if I had just been wearing jeans and a pair of tennis shoes!