Highsided tonight

[Thunderbisciut]

I'll make this as short as possible: rear started sliding in a turn in a parking lot, was heading for curb, rear got traction, I've never laughed so hard while flopping through the air, backpack full of groceries airbag worked as expected, my foot hurts, bent clipon, busted peg, scraped can, no paint scatches at all surprisingly, 1/2 gallon of milk can apparently take a lot of abuse, Sweet and Spicy Chile Doritos only break open on the bottom

[Doc]

Frick!! Sorry to here. I had no clue a ninjette could slide the rear!

[mzdagrl]

oooooh, sucky. good thing most of your groceries were safe!


j/k glad you're ok....learn something from it (even at low temps and low speeds, parking lots suck)

[Jenni]

glad you came out alright... bike doesn't sound too bad either and it's not worth crying over spilled milk.

get back on her soon.

[Thunderbisciut]

Thanks folks! I knew I wasn't going to die, so I was laughing hysterically the whole time. I have a habbit of doing that. If you can't laugh about something, then there's no point in living I say.

The bike is still perfectly rideable around town. I picked it right up and rode it home. If I have time tomorrow I might just machine a new clipon, but I have to see what I have laying around.

I know exactly what I did wrong, and I was trying to correct it. I had two choices: 1: try to straighten out and most likely hit an 8" high curb head on, or 2: keep with trying to turn and pray for the best. I chose the latter, and ultimately my Doritos payed the price. I'm still amazed that the milk and bread survived a full force landing.

[Currently]

The typical and appropriate reaction, believe it or not, is to gas it when in doubt.

My brain however has a problem with that concept and I keep crashing.

No, I am not kidding.

[Thunderbisciut]

The typical and appropriate reaction, believe it or not, is to gas it when in doubt.

That is essentially what I did. I initially felt the rear slide a bit and thought it might be a little wet spot that I was slipping on, and would almost instantaneously regain traction. I rolled on the throttle a bit more, and leaned a bit more to try to clear the curb. When I did that the ass end went out and I almost lowsided it, I tried rolling off the throttle a bit in hopes to save it, but that's when the bike got angry and bucked me off.

[seth399]

dude, what are you doing racing around turns in a parking lot! aha

[Thunderbisciut]

It's an odd setup of a parkinglot that is essentially a road on the side I was travelling, and I wouldn't call 20mph before I slowed for the turn racing around anything.

[rocker]

It's an odd setup of a parkinglot that is essentially a road on the side I was travelling, and I wouldn't call 20mph before I slowed for the turn racing around anything.

Glad you didn't get hurt and were going slow.... Thank god those doritos airbags work well

[Tricky Mike]

1/2 gallon of milk can apparently take a lot of abuse, Sweet and Spicy Chile Doritos only break open on the bottom

learn something from it

Sounds like he already did
Glad you're OK, man!

[Thunderbisciut]

Sounds like he already did

[NeverlosT]

im doing a trackday this weekend. I will be taping many bags of doritos and bottles of milk to my suit in preparation for a fall. Better safe than sorry.