MagikMan74
03-13-2009, 10:11 AM
OK, so I don't personally have any fun stories and, to be quite honest, hope the ones I develop don't involve plaster and bed rest... :)
However, I have a friend who's fun with counter steering has led to quite a few stories. Unfortunately I can only relay the story as they happened to him and not to me. This friend (we'll call him Joe) has always had the worst luck with the concept of counter-steering. Joe's laid down his bike more times than a lot of people have, yet he's never had any real injury from it. Also, he's never really damaged his bike either. He no longer owns a bike and as a result is still alive lol.
For example, we have a section of interstate here called I-359. To get onto I-20/59 you take the exit (obviously). Now the two interstates form a cross at right angles of each other so the exit/on-ramp combination is a large easy 180 degree left turn followed by a sharp 90 degree right turn as the on-ramp. Joe was riding with another friend of ours (call him Bob) who has plenty of experience on a bike. Well Bob had just gotten some new tires a little while before and was testing to make sure they were finally broke in so he could really enjoy them. Joe was in the lead at the start of the exit setting a nice easy pace. Well Bob decides he wants to really get on the turn and see how it handles, so he throttles it. So Bob passes Joe and proceeds to barrel through the interchange. Of course Joe sees this as a challenge since he didn't really know what Bob was doing, plus he had been practicing his counter-steering so he had this..... yeah....
Well the left turn finishes smooth enough for Joe, but then comes the switch into the right turn. Bob later said that he looked back at one time and saw Joe then when he completed the interchange he looked back and didn't see Joe. Joe was not able to get his bike to make the transition from left lean to right lean and ended up sliding across the grass median. He, and the bike seperately, ended up stopping just short of the I-20/59 interstate. They were clipping a good 70+ mph when this happened. Joe got up with no damage to himself or the bike.
The thing is, things like that happened to Joe all the time, and he never really got hurt or did much damage to his bike. He was working his guardian angel for everything he was worth!
Moral of the story: know your limits and adapt to them, don't try to be part of the group until you know that is where you fit. Joe got lucky a LOT!
However, I have a friend who's fun with counter steering has led to quite a few stories. Unfortunately I can only relay the story as they happened to him and not to me. This friend (we'll call him Joe) has always had the worst luck with the concept of counter-steering. Joe's laid down his bike more times than a lot of people have, yet he's never had any real injury from it. Also, he's never really damaged his bike either. He no longer owns a bike and as a result is still alive lol.
For example, we have a section of interstate here called I-359. To get onto I-20/59 you take the exit (obviously). Now the two interstates form a cross at right angles of each other so the exit/on-ramp combination is a large easy 180 degree left turn followed by a sharp 90 degree right turn as the on-ramp. Joe was riding with another friend of ours (call him Bob) who has plenty of experience on a bike. Well Bob had just gotten some new tires a little while before and was testing to make sure they were finally broke in so he could really enjoy them. Joe was in the lead at the start of the exit setting a nice easy pace. Well Bob decides he wants to really get on the turn and see how it handles, so he throttles it. So Bob passes Joe and proceeds to barrel through the interchange. Of course Joe sees this as a challenge since he didn't really know what Bob was doing, plus he had been practicing his counter-steering so he had this..... yeah....
Well the left turn finishes smooth enough for Joe, but then comes the switch into the right turn. Bob later said that he looked back at one time and saw Joe then when he completed the interchange he looked back and didn't see Joe. Joe was not able to get his bike to make the transition from left lean to right lean and ended up sliding across the grass median. He, and the bike seperately, ended up stopping just short of the I-20/59 interstate. They were clipping a good 70+ mph when this happened. Joe got up with no damage to himself or the bike.
The thing is, things like that happened to Joe all the time, and he never really got hurt or did much damage to his bike. He was working his guardian angel for everything he was worth!
Moral of the story: know your limits and adapt to them, don't try to be part of the group until you know that is where you fit. Joe got lucky a LOT!