When the brakes are not strong enough, use a bush...

dude, that was more than lucky.

watch those right hand bends fella.

Oooh boy, you're lucky you got off so lightly. Nice job keeping it upright in the jungle but what was going on there?
Live and learn. On that evidence you need to go back to absolute basics. Riding for fun can't be much fun with that in the back of your mind. Slow right down until you sort yourself out, or get some tuition.

[SoulKiss]

Originally Posted by Seggons

Before I reply here was the route I was on: http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=93564

After adapting it it come to a total of 197 miles of pure riding with no stops.

It didn't help that the tire was just above the legal limit.



Concentration levels dropped and so to did my confidence when getting the bike setup so I never really committed myself to the bend.



It was around the Ramsey area



Totally agree. But I'm sure no matter how experienced or how many courses you've been on it doesn't make a person immune to things like this. Normally if there are people are about I take a whole different attitude to my riding.



Most of the time I look around the bends, but when you get into those situations the concentration moves to braking and keeping the wheels from locking.
If you watch the video very slowly you will see just before hitting the bush I managed to lock the rear wheel, kick the rear to the right so I went slightly side on and missed the main part.
I felt like I was leaning the bike over enough because I got my toe down once and covered 95% of the extremely squared off tire.

Just something I'll put down to experience and learn from.

Point #1 - this is Great Britain, we use tyres in this country young man !!!!

Dont be so defensive you messed up - but you didnt have to put it up on youtube etc, you could have pretended it never happened and deleted the file - you didnt, and you used it to reflect on what went wrong - good on ya.

My only advice would be to get that squared tyre sorted out - the way the bike would tip in on new rubber would have given you the confidence to have made that turn.

Glad you are fine, that the bike is fine and that you have learned something.

Next thing to learn is to never comment on your speed on the internet.....

I cant see why that happend on the second time, you didnt seem to attempt to go around the corner?

[Lissa]

If you'd done that on our rideout I'd have given you such a slap!

She would an all

[Wideboy]

wow respect for posting that up mate, you must have been crapping a brick sideways, i know i would have been

Originally Posted by mototech

I cant see why that happend on the second time, you didnt seem to attempt to go around the corner?

If you get thrown off a horse, get straight back on it. The only problem is I tried to back to my original pace (which was already too quick) with shattered confidence.

thats funny!

lean your dam bike!!!!

you wernt looking at the satnav were you?