Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > First Road Knee Down, When,Where and what Bike?

[Gaz 748]

02-748-The famous Chobham roundabout.

If you want a good left-hand bend head to the Southern Ind. Area in Bracknell,360 bend, smooth, poss. camber and quiet at the weekend.

[chris.p]

Originally Posted by CK

Off my 250 Superdream in 1979...........unintentionally

unfortunately, then my elbow, my ass & then shoulder followed & the bike was a write off

Damn, I was going to use that one (CB175 1973 I think?)


Chris

[RD]

My first time was during the late 1980's while riding dad's 1941 Harley-Davidson WLC750 (3-speed hand gear change and foot operated clutch ) behind me was dad and my mates in his 1943 Dodge 6x6 Personnel & Cargo Carrier, when we came to a mini-roundabout in Liphook (A3) I made a mistake, I should have rode straight through but I started to turn slowly (10mph) onto the mini-roundabout, dad tooted and indicated the correct direction so while still negotiating the roundabout I decided to go full circle and take the correct road (A3 London) at was at this stage a 17 year old decided to enter the roundabout driving a Metro. Already cranked over I tried to take avoiding action and pulled the front brake, not a good thing to normally but on an old Harley I found out to my horror it doesn't matter as the front brake (cable operated drum) doesn't work!! Apparently this is a common problem on these Harleys and bikes of this age, that is why riders wore boots with platform soles. I also used the rear brake but this didn’t slow the bike enough either so the inevitable crunch happened and unintentionally I managed to get my right knee down for the time, in fact the whole of my right leg. Minimal damage to me, bike and car. Needless to say that dad wasn’t a happy chappy.

[Jon]

Originally Posted by fil2

LOL

Hark at you Mr " lets see how high i can jack the rear of my 583 up" ....lol

come on Jon it was pretty high ..lol

I was only copying you No1

[Glyn]

once when quite young on an fzr 600
never managed it again for years till i got the st2 can get it down on nearly every corner at cadwell but not much on the road just some well known bends
now the 749 is just whenever you feel like it

[CK]

Originally Posted by Gaz 748

02-748-The famous Chobham roundabout.

know that one well up by the tank factory - it also had the nice 'test link road' from the other roundabout on the Sunningdale road with no crossing traffic etc
Was great to spin from one roundabout doing the half mile with a twist in the middle, to the other - untill the council 'fiddled' with the road in the middle bit

But then again, the road was never the same on the bigger bikes, as it was on the 125'5 & 250's in the old days

[Ains.]

Originally Posted by CK

Off my 250 Superdream in 1979...........unintentionally

unfortunately, then my elbow, my ass & then shoulder followed & the bike was a write off

Same here. Eltham High Street, 250K4 in 1980.
Front wheel hit a wet manhole cover, knee, elbow, wrist. ouch.

Ains.

[Gaz 748]

It`s a bit of a mess now, bollards on the roundabout opposite where people used to stand.

[Simon Reed]

Originally Posted by yeti

Bugger, was just about to post the same only 1972 on Suzuki GT250!!!!

jfp,,,,,behave ureself !!!!!,i get told at every track day,by another certain dsc members there,that he taught you how to do it,and you didn't even,know him in 1972 !!!!,isn't that right jon ???????

[itexuk]

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