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I am trying to understand what happened with this brother that went down swerving to avoid a "hose". How can you go down trying to avoid a hose? how big was the hose?
I think it will be great if we can learn more about how people goes down.
I've been riding since I was a teenager-I am 54 now. Went down twice and both times was my fault. There is not a lot I can remember from the first one but I hit a car head on and after some nose plastic surgery and three surgeries on my right knee I was able to walk again (it took me one year to get rid of the cane). BUT, the second time I went down, I can remember very well. I got bruises all over my body but ended up basically in one piece. I was doing 65 miles per hour when an SOB decided to ignore me and cross the road right in front of my path. I panicked and hit the back break and locked the wheel; tried to correct the bike moving my butt to the other side and went down ON TOP of the bike. My head hit the pavement numerous times, so hard that the helmet was cracked. After that frigging accident I started to practice braking all the time. Over the years I learned that two situations probably amount for 90 percent of motorcycle accidents: a) braking b)negotiating curves.
I would like for you guys to share any experience you have that can be of any utility to all of us. I am not talking of "having more lights" or stuff like that. I am talking on what happened to you and what you should have done to avoid the situation.
Like our brother that went down trying to avoid a hose. I would just ride over the hose. I need to know more about that accident.
I think it will be great if we can learn more about how people goes down.
I've been riding since I was a teenager-I am 54 now. Went down twice and both times was my fault. There is not a lot I can remember from the first one but I hit a car head on and after some nose plastic surgery and three surgeries on my right knee I was able to walk again (it took me one year to get rid of the cane). BUT, the second time I went down, I can remember very well. I got bruises all over my body but ended up basically in one piece. I was doing 65 miles per hour when an SOB decided to ignore me and cross the road right in front of my path. I panicked and hit the back break and locked the wheel; tried to correct the bike moving my butt to the other side and went down ON TOP of the bike. My head hit the pavement numerous times, so hard that the helmet was cracked. After that frigging accident I started to practice braking all the time. Over the years I learned that two situations probably amount for 90 percent of motorcycle accidents: a) braking b)negotiating curves.
I would like for you guys to share any experience you have that can be of any utility to all of us. I am not talking of "having more lights" or stuff like that. I am talking on what happened to you and what you should have done to avoid the situation.
Like our brother that went down trying to avoid a hose. I would just ride over the hose. I need to know more about that accident.