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Post by beaupre716 on Jan 23, 2014 1:42:03 GMT -5
Looking back, it was a questionable habit. But I got away with it for a long time ... until the day that I didn't. I used to loft my bike off the drop shown below and float to the transition where my bike is landing in the photo. It was a quick and fun way to get down the cliff, just before you chose a new way up and repeated the process all over again. The questionable part was this: I'd approach the cliff in first gear -- going too fast off the edge would send you too far into the transition below -- but shift to second just as my bike left the ground. Shifting to second allowed the bike to ride away from the landing at a sensible RPM. It never occurred to me that there was any unusual danger in this, as shifting on the face of jumps is something you tend to do a lot in race situations (and I still raced back then). The difference is that you're typically shifting from second to third or third to fourth on a regular jump -- not first to second. The problem with first to second is the gap in between otherwise known as neutral. I don't know if my bike's gears hung up slightly or if I simply didn't get enough boot under the shifter. All I know is that when my transmission stopped moving me forward as my front wheel hung over the face of the drop, something had gone terribly wrong. To read the rest, stop by the home page ... and don't forget to share your own scariest moment below.
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Post by 82NoMe on Jan 23, 2014 23:15:03 GMT -5
Racing Superbikes and stalling on the front row at Sear’s Point with 75 bikes behind me. Needless to say when I got hit it was someone much further back and in third gear.1984 Turn 10 Sear's Point
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Post by Larry63r on Jan 23, 2014 23:54:46 GMT -5
I was on my gsxr 600 and was stopped at a stop light. I was hit from behind by a Cadillac. It pushed me out into cross traffic at the intersection.
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Post by beaupre716 on Jan 24, 2014 0:23:07 GMT -5
I've clearly got nothing on you guys with asphalt experience!
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Post by 82NoMe on Jan 24, 2014 23:39:17 GMT -5
I've clearly got nothing on you guys with asphalt experience! Coming from motocross to road racing... motocross is racing, roadracing is a video game. (motocross is physical & cerebral / roadracing cerebral} Roadracing for me was an easy trasition from mx b/c you could be successful off the couch. as always, cheers... j~
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Post by beaupre716 on Jan 25, 2014 15:30:14 GMT -5
I've clearly got nothing on you guys with asphalt experience! Coming from motocross to road racing... motocross is racing, roadracing is a video game. (motocross is physical & cerebral / roadracing cerebral} Roadracing for me was an easy trasition from mx b/c you could be successful off the couch. as always, cheers... j~ I love the superbike photo above. Road racing from that era looks so gnarly. It's gnarly now too, but I imagine the tires and brakes are probably a better match for the engines today.
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Post by jacobs437 on Jan 25, 2014 18:05:19 GMT -5
Dislocating my femur,breaking my collar bone and bruising my heart and lung at Fernley back in 04'. I also had a real good one here in Alaska 2 years ago. It was a 90' table out of a corner. you were on the gas all the way out. The sun was in your eyes on the take off and I was unable to see the kicker at the lip. It was a full blown panic rev. My buddy hit it the very next lap and crashed hard dislocating his wrist.
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Post by bkrblood on Jan 25, 2014 19:08:28 GMT -5
ive had 2 different O s*** moments, luckily i was able to save both of them and ride away without loosing it...first one was blowing turn 1 at Reno Fernley Raceway on my gsxr600 doing over 115 into the dirt and then the next was at Thunderhill blowing turn 5 jumping into the dirt and riding it down the hill.
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Post by Kash Mcpartlin on Jan 25, 2014 21:53:46 GMT -5
Scariest moment i had was i was at 28 before the finish when you had to hit the step up and the sky jump. Some kid fell on the landing of the sky jump and i jumped right over the top of him. If i clipped him at all i would have smacked the lip of the finish.
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Post by gregg86n on Feb 1, 2014 6:43:10 GMT -5
I broad sided a taxi cab that turned right in front of me in front of the Fitzgerald's Casino downtown Reno. I did a superman over the truck lid. After I woke up the tourists were saying that was the gnarliest thing they ever saw.
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Post by jbrown62r on Feb 1, 2014 12:02:17 GMT -5
First time ever riding. Was following my dad across a dry lake bed and hit a little mound of dirt and rode the front wheel for what seemed like forever. Don't remember the crash, but do remember the "now what do I do" thought.
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Post by evans66 on Feb 1, 2014 16:16:03 GMT -5
I've had many scary moments on my dirt bike, including multiple kicks on jump faces that seem to turn into slow-motion panic revs and over the bars "endos" that I would like to forget..... But one that stands out in my mind the most was at a Loretta Lynn's regional qualifier at Glen Helen. 3rd Moto of the 250 B modified sitting second overall behind a fast Suzuki rider named Dayton Beavers heading into the moto. All I had to do was finish in the top 10 realistically and I was on my way to Tennessee.... Got a great start, riding a bit over my head and got into second behind beavers... Followed his exact line off the top if "mt St. Helens" when he hit a kicker right I. Front of me that hit hit right behind him! As I watched him swap out and high-side directly in front if me, I knew what was in store! It was so scary, and nothing I could do about it! I ended up hitting his bike about a 3rd of the way down and proceeded to tumble to the bottom Ruined my shoulder, never had been the same since Couldn't wait to get back on my bike after surgery
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Post by beaupre716 on Feb 3, 2014 20:36:16 GMT -5
I've had many scary moments on my dirt bike, including multiple kicks on jump faces that seem to turn into slow-motion panic revs and over the bars "endos" that I would like to forget..... But one that stands out in my mind the most was at a Loretta Lynn's regional qualifier at Glen Helen. 3rd Moto of the 250 B modified sitting second overall behind a fast Suzuki rider named Dayton Beavers heading into the moto. All I had to do was finish in the top 10 realistically and I was on my way to Tennessee.... Got a great start, riding a bit over my head and got into second behind beavers... Followed his exact line off the top if "mt St. Helens" when he hit a kicker right I. Front of me that hit hit right behind him! As I watched him swap out and high-side directly in front if me, I knew what was in store! It was so scary, and nothing I could do about it! I ended up hitting his bike about a 3rd of the way down and proceeded to tumble to the bottom Ruined my shoulder, never had been the same since Couldn't wait to get back on my bike after surgery Gnarly story. Glen Helen's hills are no joke! I wonder where Dayton Beavers is today.
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Post by evans66 on Feb 4, 2014 9:40:43 GMT -5
I don't know, but he sure ripped back then.
Goes to show how much more than talent it takes to make it to the next level.
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