Freak Accident
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11-29-2016 | 09:08 PM
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11-29-2016 | 09:12 PM
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11-30-2016 | 12:17 PM
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But I'm already planning a one-week tour in the spring.
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11-30-2016 | 12:20 PM
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Glad you're all healed up.
Curious, was getting to the shoulder the best thing (due to traffic)?
And obviously you eased off the throttle, but what if you disengaged the clutch and slammed on the front brake? It sounds like you were still going pretty fast when you got tossed. Would hitting the front brake have brought your speed down more quickly, less weight on the rear tire and a lower speed before being tossed?
Curious, was getting to the shoulder the best thing (due to traffic)?
And obviously you eased off the throttle, but what if you disengaged the clutch and slammed on the front brake? It sounds like you were still going pretty fast when you got tossed. Would hitting the front brake have brought your speed down more quickly, less weight on the rear tire and a lower speed before being tossed?
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11-30-2016 | 12:38 PM
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"I kept the bike up for a bit, slowed it down some, and got it over to the shoulder before it threw me into a grassy ditch."
While I've not had a flat on anything bigger than a softail, I've ridden on flat tires.. There are things that might help. I've ridden the softail and smaller bikes quite a bit after the went flat.. The thing to remember is not steer quickly and keep you speed up to the side of the road. The tire slip to the sides easily so concentrate on keeping your balance. Dirt riders know this stuff real well from riding soft sand. If you dive for the side of the road and there a ditch there, you'll be in it. When slowing down the tire will fold unders itself and the bike will want to pitch. It's good to be over too one side to keep tire form folding under. This is one those times it's OK to let the bike slide out and get away from it if it starts to get away from and you are off the road.
While I've not had a flat on anything bigger than a softail, I've ridden on flat tires.. There are things that might help. I've ridden the softail and smaller bikes quite a bit after the went flat.. The thing to remember is not steer quickly and keep you speed up to the side of the road. The tire slip to the sides easily so concentrate on keeping your balance. Dirt riders know this stuff real well from riding soft sand. If you dive for the side of the road and there a ditch there, you'll be in it. When slowing down the tire will fold unders itself and the bike will want to pitch. It's good to be over too one side to keep tire form folding under. This is one those times it's OK to let the bike slide out and get away from it if it starts to get away from and you are off the road.
The bike did not go into the ditch, only I did. The bike was on the shoulder when it threw me. I ended up about 15-20 feet from the bike, although some of that was undoubtedly from my tuck and roll.
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11-30-2016 | 05:29 PM
you are a lucky man ! one to have survived the crash and another because you have such good friends. people tend tp throw junk on the roads all over this country. screws, nails, ladders all the time on out the roads. i watched a guy drop a bunch of little tech screws that came out of his truck on the ground in a bar parking lot full of bikes. nitwit didn't even attempt to pick them up.
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11-30-2016 | 06:08 PM
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Were you on tubed tires? When the tube blew, it seems to have created catastrophic and immediate failure--blowout--of the rear tire itself as you can sortof see in the photo. It also does appear that it folded under itself. I did keep it up and moving forward for some distance while I slowed it down and moved over gradually. But the bike was fishtailing as I was doing so.
The bike did not go into the ditch, only I did. The bike was on the shoulder when it threw me. I ended up about 15-20 feet from the bike, although some of that was undoubtedly from my tuck and roll.
The bike did not go into the ditch, only I did. The bike was on the shoulder when it threw me. I ended up about 15-20 feet from the bike, although some of that was undoubtedly from my tuck and roll.
The failure on your bike looks like the tire suffered from some heat.. The only time I've seen the inside look like yours is after riding about 80-100 miles on a flat rear. Most of it was street tho. Dirt bike had 2 rim locks and a rock protector bead lock.. Yours look like it over heated, probably from the air leaking out slowly. I would guess at some point the tire slipped and when it did the tube split wide open and the tire went the rest of the way flat almost instantly.. Did the missing piece get tangled up in anything?
Were you running a tire sealer?
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11-30-2016 | 09:04 PM
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