DOES ANYBODY HAVE CRASH BUNGS!!!!

hi internet webby thing people guys.
has any one stuck decent crash bugs on the 3ln before, where'd you get them from (did you make them) and where's the best place to mount them ensuring nothing touches the ground in a crash? im sick of cleaning up damage to my bikes this is the third crash Ive had n its getting expensive when it doesn't have to be. Ive already ordered fold back mirrors so the originals will stop bending the crap out of my front sub frame.

you won't believe what happened to my poor bike. was trying out some led wheel lights you screw on your wheel valve n they light up and do pretty things when your wheel goes round. had all my riding gear on except my leather jacket (which im kinda glad of now) and these little things weren't working so i pulled back in, took my gloves off and fiddled round with them cos my gloves were to clumsy. jumped back on and did one last run down the road cos i didn't realize the time i was almost late for work. my mate gave me the thumbs up as i went past at about 50km/h (to say they were finally working sweet) so i braked quite firmly in a straight line with my front brake but nothing my tyres couldn't handle (the lights are illegal so wanted to get back in the drive before a cop came round the corner) when all of a sudden for no apparent reason my front tyre just locked up and collapsed out from under me and i went over on the left side sliding down the road for bout 12 meters. scratched up my hands, forearms and left shoulder while sliding (o joy) quickly got up first things first look round to see who saw that <!-- s --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s --> don't we all. Then picked the bike up and parked it on the side of the road almost dropping it on the other side cos i slipped on the oil spilling out (id shredded a hole in a cover but it was due for an oil change anyway) and went storming off back down the street like a pissed of SS trooper cos i knew i wasn't to blame. Amazingly i was oblivious to all the blood running of my arms but there was something weird bout this crash i could feel it in my bones and sure enough exactly where i went down would you have guessed it (an act of God is all i can put it down to) lying innocently in the gutter was a flattened scratched up long handled teaspoon!!
the mighty Yamaha brought down by a tiny little cutlery utensil. the frigen road was four lanes wide and i just had to run over the exact sport where it was lying didn't i. the bikes not insured so now i need left wing mirror left indicator and new left body fairing. one funny thing that did come out of it, the wounds on my arms have scabbed over now so my arms are roughly stuck in the position that you're on the motorbike in cos if i bend to far in either direction it cracks them open again.
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well the jacket was brand shiny new so because it was a slowish crash i didnt mind cos my skin will heal back free of charge. have you got some on your bike if so where did you mount them

 

were on the bike do you mount them???

 

hey dontz thanks ever so much for that really interesting information you gave. makes me appreciate these sites so much more

Ive never thought of it that way. Ive always thought lateral and driving forces (the latter for the back wheel only) through a corner do all the tyre warming so if you wanted to really heat your tyres good and proper you'd have to accelerate harder and progressively get faster round corners. Forgot about braking forces heating the respective tyres also. As for which forces (driving , lateral and braking) do the most amount of the heating well i guess that's completely dependent on how you ride.

i have seen people go over the bars a few times before but that was mostly affected due to things like bike design (eg not being use to a high seat encouraging a very forward body positioning there for weight biased forward encouraging the back wheel to lift off earlier) also not pushing your weight rearwards while emergency braking to also help keep the rear down, and of course the old enemy inexperience ! never having been in that situation before, panicking and grabbing a massive hand full of brake to fast then when the wheel comes up not releasing in time.

PLEASE correct me if im wrong dontz i must respectfully disagree with your statement

i know of 2 reasons for high siding in a corner. 1 to much power causing the rear tyre to slip and step out, rider not able to control slide lets go of the throttle tyre re-grips while the bike is sideways causing high side.
2 rider applies to much back brake in corner rear wheel to locks up skids sideways rider unable to control the slide releases rear brake making rear tyre re-grip causing high side. (this is the one i disagree with)
to my knowledge the only reason the high side happens in this situation is because the rider took his foot off the brake. if he hadn't the tyre would have never regained traction in a sideways stance causing a high side. i am in no way implying that the rider would have saved the slide and lived to ride another day that's completely dependent on skill but he definitely would not have high sided.

also i think romantix must drive round town quite a bit where you can mostly get away with that type of riding style. open road riding though i would respectfully disagree with you romantix. but in a way you did made a subtle point because locking up the rear is easier to save than collapsing the front which you pretty much have no time to react. it is possible have seen it done before but only once.

and lets all not forget who's fault and who started this whole conversation to begin with...... it was a ninja named roger who disguised himself as a teaspoon. dam ninjas there everywhere <!-- s --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s -->
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holy cow romantix do you seriously ride an hour to work and then an hour home everyday! (well how ever many days a week you work.) that's insane. if it was epic hill roads and bays and mixture of scenery's and fast curves i wouldn't mind but me thinking you probly not that lucky or could i be wrong. i bet u stuck on long boring highway.

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you wont believe it i found another one of them little bastards while i was biking over to a friends house today lying innocently near the gutter. but this was the big brother to little roger. this was a proper spoon already been flattened by numerous vehicles so watch out you fellas rogers out there everywhere and waiting for you to slip up!!
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