Just seen a guy come off his bike..

Originally Posted by Welsh_Wizard

Nah, i works in the city centre mate - i meant the sainsbury's at the end of queen street. I think you are on about the Sainsburys on Colchester avenue - by the petrol station we were going to meet at ??

Brunel House??

Originally Posted by Nostrils

Brunel House??

aye, that'll be the prison..sorry, workplace.

Originally Posted by ThEGr33k

I would tend to argue DON'T use front brake at all if it can be helped in winter, and never, never in corners!!!

A brakes thread again...

I don't agree with either statement. I always use the front brake, often alone. I used never to use the brakes in corners as that's how I came off, but I've discovered that you can use them - the front one included - with care - although I prefer not to.

Originally Posted by Ed

A brakes thread again...

I don't agree with either statement. I always use the front brake, often alone. I used never to use the brakes in corners as that's how I came off, but I've discovered that you can use them - the front one included - with care - although I prefer not to.

Im well aware you can Ed, and i do, when the weather is nice and you can tell there isnt much chance of the wheel locking up. But in winter with wet cold salty roads, with maybe a splash of desiel or a sheet of ice its a bad idea risking it. Thats what i was meaning.

Its happened to me in the bad weather, and that was going in a streight line . So i try to limit the chances of it happening again, as you do.

Id still recomend not using the front in corners as it tends to stand the bike up and make leaning in harder work than it need be. Infact i think it was in a mag, Ride i think, said that you get smother faster corners if you brake then turn in... Everyone to their own though

I suppose the only consolation is that he didn't fall off his bike today. It would have been a toss up whether he'd have drowned or frozen before he stopped rolling.
God, I love the winter.

Indeed it is a little chilly out side!

Poor chap...

Anybody ride today? I did, and more to the point to my eternal surprise I didn't drop it . The bike and me have only done just over 100 miles so the tyres are still not scrubbed in at all and the roads were greasy as hell. One corner felt as if I was doing a 20mph 2 wheel drift . Rode like Miss blooming Daisy but it was still fun to get out on it

Destination was Powersports up a chesterfield where the lovely hubby bought my Christamas pressie - one of these:



Mine is black where the red stripes are on this one though. It is waaay

Keep them sunny side up folks!

Trace

Knowing that corner, it was probably a **** in a cage who couldn't be bothered to queue up to go down the road by the railway station and went round the outside, happens to me all the time.

aye wiz yeah, i think thats the one i'm on about. Where theres always loads of people crossing the roads and the bus shelters on the far left?