How NOT to do the mountain ... Pics back on
 

This happened at Cadwell today, the guys ok .....

Ok looking good ...



oooh .. maybe not ...



ouch .....



[Edited on 25-5-2005 by DIBBLE]

How on earth did he manage that??????????????????

Is that first pic part of the sequence?

That is sooooooooooooo wrong :lol::lol::lol:

Sorry, shouldn't laugh :saint:

were did that other bloke come from?:puzzled:

Looks like he jumped on the back brake?

He looks fine in pic 1 :o

Confusing. Glad he's OK though.

Glad to hear the rider is ok!

Hope he destroyed them leathers though :roll:

Just wondering how everybody knows he is OK, was the bloke walking away in the last pic taken out when the FZR rider lost it

Agree with Domski, I reckon he had read that if the front comes up you use the back brake to bring it down-not THAT hard you dummy.:lol:
Looks as though he got someone else to drop it too looking at the other rider, and I don't think the bike lying at the side is his?

John

PANIC makes people do the weirdest things!

RELAX and enjoy.......

I f...ing hate the mountain though.

Loving Cadwell, especially the Gooseneck, weird eh?

Damn this proxy, I can't see any of the photos :(

Skids, I know he is ok as a bunch of my friends were at the day, they were the source of the pics and i checked before putting the pics up .. had he been hurt I wouldnt have displayed them ...

The bloke running away is suffering from shocjk having stared at those leathers too long ...... still they did the job ...

So then Monty...sorry for my naivety but if you "feather" the back brake it will bring the front end down??? But if you are positioned with your weight over the front end doesn't that do the same thing without the loss of speed?....why on earth would you want to brake after the mountain that soon? (yeah I know, I'm being pink and fluffy!):puzzled:

Oh! Yeah...and those leathers are just wrong, diddly, wrong wrong wrong!

Thats alright then although him being OK is a relative thing, probably means a bit of brusing etc but no boken bones. At the IOM it means they are still alive.

:o:o:o

:puzzled::puzzled::puzzled:

:lol::lol::lol:

They are not leathers but a nice 80's Nike Shell Suit surely.

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

I think it's safe to say I could stamp on my rear brake and it wouldn't bring the front end down!

Ade.

I can't see the photo's either... damn them jobsworths in the i.t. department! :mad:

As used by all the top riders-not me then! Yeh babes, the back brake will stop the bike flipping-if you think about the forces acting on the bike, during a wheelie the bike is trying to rotate around the rear wheel spindle. Using the back brake conteracts this tendency, as the wheel rotates forward and the brake is fixed to the swing arm when you apply it it is trying to force the front of the bike into the ground. You lose some power but get to apply what you have so you go forwards not up an over.

John

Same here :(

No photos on my browser either.



This happened at Cadwell today, the guys ok .....

Ok looking good ...



oooh .. maybe not ...



ouch .....


That's all I get.
Tim

Can't see the pics either - what's the problem? :(

It looks as though they have been moved from the website where they were being hosted. I could see them when the thread was first posted but I can't anymore - when I go to the website you can't find them.

Trust me, you didn't want to see the guys leathers anyway!!!

I can see them now........

Look behind you!

I can get this at Christmas with the kids.
Anyone got the web address again please as the link is corrupted?

Tim

I think the funniest thing is the Dibble says - "OK looking good" - he looks like a gimp!!! ;)

The problem was the fella (out of shot) who flipped his Aprilia 250 in front of crazy leathers dude.
He proceeded to panic and use his back (!!) brake to try and stop, and then fell off.
They're both ok, if a little battered.