Dropping the bike in MSF...

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nike_soccer · Wed Nov 23, 2005 11:19 am

...from exsessive braking. How does that happen? The lack of speed make the bike lose it's center gravity and the driver flies off? I can't picture it. Can someone please explain so I don't do it on my MSF course.

#2 Unread post by **Sev** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 11:37 am

There are a lot of ways this can happen, usually it's the result of the back tire moving forward faster then the front one...

omar · #3 Unread post by **omar** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 2:53 pm

Well, if you brake in a turn without straightening out before braking you will most likely fall right over to the side.

That's how it happened to folks in my class. Good thing they were only going 15 mphs

Shenanigans7 · Thu Nov 24, 2005 7:28 am

i know one guy in my class was doing the slow speed turns, and he grabbed the front bake thru the middle of it...he fell. that was after they told us to never use the front brake while slow turning...such as the figure eight, use only the back brake.

another guy locked out his front tire on a quick stop, then accidentally rolled on the throttle...the bike jumped a little, then fell on top of him.

New_R · #5 Unread post by **New_R** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 4:44 pm

A woman in my class didnt put her kickstand down...

peterman · #6 Unread post by **peterman** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 10:11 am

man, I wonder how my times those bikes have been dumped?