ogri Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 [video src=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JMWaUweH1o] STUFF EVERYTHING - I'VE ALWAYS GOT MY BIKE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ogri Posted October 21, 2015 Author Share Posted October 21, 2015 Per the rider: I just could not brake (unknown reason) and did not react in the proper way to avoid the crash. Instead of pulling down the motorbike and do the turn I stood straight looking just in the direction I was crashing. Bike and myself flew and roll for about 10 mt and land where the big tree is (you see it just before the video stop). See linked picture Listening to the audio, the engine seems to rev without a load as the bike steers to the right. Could be an anomaly. From my experience with crashes, it is often hard to remember exactly what happened. STUFF EVERYTHING - I'VE ALWAYS GOT MY BIKE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member wessie Posted October 21, 2015 Premium Member Share Posted October 21, 2015 The rider has made at least 2 comments admitting an error. I guess he was distracted by the car going around the right hander and turned too late for the left corner so ran out of road This signature is left blank as the poster writes enough pretentious bollocks as it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
advman Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 Wow that's took the newness off it, glad your ok Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ogri Posted October 21, 2015 Author Share Posted October 21, 2015 Listening to the audio, the engine seems to rev without a load as the bike steers to the right. Could be an anomaly. From my experience with crashes, it is often hard to remember exactly what happened. Not from mine. I watch and listen to the video and see the same classic errors as nearly every other video. Couple that with statements by someone that was there... Head-butted a cage once...out of it for 6 weeks...complete memory wipe! Explains at lot, I know.... STUFF EVERYTHING - I'VE ALWAYS GOT MY BIKE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
com3 Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 daaamn.... snapped the swing arm! don't see that happen very often with ANY bike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redfjniner Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 That was too bad, I was liking the video. May have touched down with the center stand causing a laps in concentration, with a WTF was that? I did that once, it was enough to distract just long enough to run wide. Ken, Candy Ass L.D.R. Sleeps 8 hours (2)2005 FJR1300abs: 230,000 m 2015 FJ-09: 114,000 m (Replaced engine at 106K) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member keithu Posted December 16, 2015 Premium Member Share Posted December 16, 2015 The best example on the boards I frequent is Edward's Corner near the end of The Snake on Mullholland near Los Angeles. Multiple wrecks every weekend. Is that the sweeping hairpin visible from the lookout? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member keithu Posted December 17, 2015 Premium Member Share Posted December 17, 2015 I used to be a regular up there in the early 1990s when I was stationed at Pt. Mugu in the Navy. I don't recall anyone calling it Edward's Curve back then. Someone had painted a big bullseye on the rock at the downhill exit, but I see in the videos that it's long gone. For a while CHP presence up there was really bad. Some politician's kid killed himself up there, so the CHP actually closed the Snake to motorcycles on weekends for several months in 1990. Even after it reopened they would permanently station 1-2 cars at the lookout every Sunday and they'd cite about 50% of all motorcyclists coming up the road for something. If it wasn't leaning slightly over the centerline or exceeding the speed limit by 2mph, they'd hit us with equipment violations for aftermarket pipes, flush mount turn signals, chopped fenders, you name it. I got hit for the Yoshimura pipes on my Interceptor. It was pretty bad for a while. This was at the tail end of the "superbike ban" craze where politicians thought any motorcycle with 90hp and full fairings was a death machine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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