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I Just Wanted To Say... Ya Can't Hijack This!! :-))
Biggles:
This might become a "pinned" thread.
I'm proposing it for anyone to write anything they want that doesn't warrant a topic/ thread all of its own.
Some posts will be replies, but it doesn't matter what trend the topic takes, because THERE ISN'T ONE :grin
The idea came to me when I was riding home thinking about what happened to me on my Newcastle overnighter.
I arrived there at 4:00 PM and thought I remembered where my motel was. It was a very windy day yesterday (was again today!) and I rode along Zaara Street towards the Esplanade. About 20 metres from the corner I encountered wind so strong that it threated to blow the bike over. I stopped and put both feet down and tried to walk the bike backwards. The wind was being funnelled into the street between the buildings and every time I took the weight off a foot the wind would gust from the opposite direction and threaten to blow us both over. Thankfully, three blokes helped me turn it around and I was able to escape.
These 300+ kg bikes are a handful at the best of times, but when they want to act as a sail, they are impossible to manage.
Biggles:
On my way home up the Pacific Highway today I say two wrecks, both involving a semi-trailer and a car. The first was a fatal involving a B-Double that was completely off the road cabin-first into a tree. There were two heavy-lift mobile cranes on site, and thankfully only one lane was closed so traffic was moving. The second one was an 18 wheeler off at 45o into the ditch with a car parallel to it in the canefield.
Gotta feel sorry for truck drivers, as I'm sure a lot of the time it is the car driver who caused the prang- like the family of 4 killed up north QLD in the head-on with a truck while overtaking a semi.
Biggles:
To keep the thread variable...
How the heck do LD riders get snacks into the mouth? I have a Shoei helmet and I can barely push a peanut into my mouth while standing beside the bike, let alone doing 100 kays down the road. This is predicated, of course, upon wearing a full face helmet. Save your electrons and don't tell me you wear a flip-up or open-faced jobby.
That may well be the easy part. I still don't have a system for picking up a Menthos from anywhere to try and feed myself. Do you use a tankbag? A joey pouch (for those who fraternise with Roos)? A bike side pocket?
alans1100:
--- Quote from: Biggles on August 12, 2012, 10:14:24 PM ---To keep the thread variable...
How the heck do LD riders get snacks into the mouth? I have a Shoei helmet and I can barely push a peanut into my mouth while standing beside the bike, let alone doing 100 kays down the road. This is predicated, of course, upon wearing a full face helmet. Save your electrons and don't tell me you wear a flip-up or open-faced jobby.
That may well be the easy part. I still don't have a system for picking up a Menthos from anywhere to try and feed myself. Do you use a tankbag? A joey pouch (for those who fraternise with Roos)? A bike side pocket?
--- End quote ---
If I remember to get those bags of glucose or barley sugar lollies I'll put some in the LH pocket (1100). I don't have a problem slipping my fingers between the raised visor and helmet to put lolly into mouth. I also push helmet down a little as I do so.
Same for breath test, just enough room if I push helmet down a little.
When Heather is with me she'll have some in her pocket and if I want one it will get handed to me so I can see it.
alans1100:
--- Quote from: Biggles on August 12, 2012, 10:04:54 PM ---
These 300+ kg bikes are a handful at the best of times, but when they want to act as a sail, they are impossible to manage.
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I had a triple road train push my bike over one day.
On the way back home from a river where I use go for a swim I had to enter the main highway from a dirt track. It also meant going up a 30 degree slope before getting to the tar which if all was ok if I didn't need to stop for any traffic. One time I had to stop to let the road train go before I could go. One or two trailers would have been fine but the third trailer added more air pressure into the mix and pushed the bike over. No way could I stop it from falling but I tried to lessen the impact by keeping hold of the bike. Had there been a lane width between the bike and road train it may have been a non issue and so it's a live and lean learn thing. Two guys in a small 4x4 saw the bike and me so they stopped and help get it back on its feet.
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