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Re: Rachels 78 CB400...Scary stuff. Wear your gear, no exceptions
Saturday, Rachel and I had our first big ride of the season.
Didn't go well. For a split second she lost confidence in her tires and slowed going into a curve.
Front tire hit the soft shoulder, she and the bike went down.
Rachel is OK, bruised up and tender, After 5 x-rays in the ER thankfully nothing broken.
The bike did an in air end-o and landed on its tires. Broken windshield, mirrors, front brake line, headlight bucket, bent rear rack. Nothing too serious.
Sunday morning we got online and got all the replacements ordered to fix it back up.
Including a new helmet as she landed on top of her head, then flat on her back, knocked the wind out of her pretty good.
Re: Rachels 78 CB400...Scary stuff. Wear your gear, no exceptions
Damn, hope she heals up quick. best thing to do is get back on and ride again. If I didn't rebuild the GL so I could ride as soon as I was allowed I wouldn't have recovered as fast or as well from my crash. The rebuild was all part of the therapy. Let her know we're glad she's ok!
Re: Rachels 78 CB400...Scary stuff. Wear your gear, no exceptions
Teach her to lay off the front brake in that situation, please sir. Front brakes and dirt, especially gravel and down grade, don't mix well. You can flutter the brake, but a hard pull is going to dump even the best of riders.
Re: Rachels 78 CB400...Scary stuff. Wear your gear, no exceptions
irk miller said:
Teach her to lay off the front brake in that situation, please sir. Front brakes and dirt, especially gravel and down grade, don't mix well. You can flutter the brake, but a hard pull is going to dump even the best of riders.
Yes sir, however, braking wasnt the issue in this particular instance.
When you roll off the Hondamatics throttle its engine braking. (no clutch to finesse your speed).
She lost confidence in the tires.
So she rolled off the throttle entering the turn, The bike slowed to about 10-15mph (give or take) quickly as the corner seemingly came at her quickly.
Then she had to make a snap decision (because she was now going to slow to lean through) she chose to "steer" around it too wide. Running into the soft shoulder her tire sunk about 3 inches into soft muddy soil then hit the steep face of the ditch.
She either could have locked up the brakes. Or she SHOULD have gunned it and leaned aggressively and made the turn.
her tires were good on the hard packed chip and tar surface. We had just ridden through that very turn, got to the end of that road and made a U-turn to come back through.
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