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14-02-12, 12:21 AM | #31 |
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Re: A very close call
Let`s face facts .... this happens , we`ve all done something silly and you hope that you learn from it all . I have ridden with Berlin and a quite a few others on here and they have witnessed me having a good day and then all of a sudden I will drop back and retire myself further down the pack . I know when my limits of concentration are being exhausted and I am likely to have an "incident" . You have to push to know where your limits are , then stick to those limits and back off and ride another day .
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14-02-12, 12:26 AM | #32 | |
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I also feel during these times, my chances of an 'incident' are greatly increased. |
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14-02-12, 12:36 AM | #33 |
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They are , I nearly got beheaded by a trailer because I went "off the boil" and didn`t pay attention . Even wrote it up on here a couple of years back .
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14-02-12, 01:58 AM | #34 | |
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"At 32s he misses the car by a cat **** hair, and then has fighter pilot composure to miss steer around the truck. I say he's done fantastically." I second that. we all mess up so give him a well done...
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14-02-12, 05:26 AM | #35 |
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Not on the public road you don't, leastways not into a blind bend where your mistake could involve others. "Accidents" if I could be permitted to use an old fashioned term, don't just happen, they are an obvious consequence to an often chosen course of behaviour and this was a classic example. I know that some motorcyclists like to push it along a bit, myself included, and I'd like to think we all know and accept the risks we are putting ourselves at when we do so, but none of us have the right to include others in that risk. If you want to look for your limits do it somewhere that isn't going to ruin somebody else's life when you find them. Sorry, I know I sound like a right boring fart sometimes but this "didn't he do well" attitude really gets my goat.
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14-02-12, 05:33 AM | #36 | |
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i'm just prasing his skill and his LUCK to pull it off.
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14-02-12, 05:38 AM | #37 |
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I didn't see to much skill there. Luck, well yeah, I can't deny him that, but you can't praise someone for something they have no control over.
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14-02-12, 05:41 AM | #38 |
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Agree..............and now he's got 8 left.
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14-02-12, 06:00 AM | #39 | |
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+1 I see nothing but poor riding here. Bad lines and lean angles, obviously trying to ride beyond his skills to keep up, no evasive action towards the first car, locking the rear wheel, nearly taking out another rider and that's just the highlights! Lucky idiot.
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14-02-12, 06:47 AM | #40 |
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Bill you got right Lucky idiot. lol.
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