I recommend that everyone crash at least once, after years of ridding without crashing you start feeling invincible and then is when the bad stuff happens. I have been lucky to only crash on track a few times and not on the street, but since then my 'spirited' street riding has calmed down by 80%.
Crashing on the track wakes you up to reality.
Crashing on a public road is far scarier because there is so much stuff to hit, or run over you, and a crash informs you quickly how you have literally no control when things go wrong, and even low speed is enough to really F you up.
Post by Riceburner on Apr 11, 2015 16:37:02 GMT -5
Locking up the front at around 80 km/h scrubbing the brakes and testing the new tire.....squeal, head shake, release...phew....wonder if the back got air?
Doing 200kph all the way from Brantford to the 401 on the 403 is more fun than dumb I think. (pre street racing law)
Believing my brother in law when he said to do a wheelie you just rev it up and dump the clutch was dumb (first bike-360T-almost looped it)
Not thinking that the black SUV could be an unmarked cop was dumb. I was beside him doing 129 in an 80 when I realized it WAS a cop. Although he followed me for a while (yeah I was committed so I followed through on passing him)he never turned on the cherries.