Essential to be able to flat foot a ss bike

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jonnythan · Thu Sep 14, 2006 5:11 am

jrdudas wrote:I followed the post that was mentioned earlier about the experienced rider who moved to a bike that he could not flatfoot and died after dumping the bike at a stoplight.

It's a good example, but I believe that situation was hypothetical.

rugaluga · #12 Unread post by **rugaluga** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 6:07 am

thanks for the replys! This is not my first bike. I had a 250 for ahwile and feel ready to move up.

ZooTech · #13 Unread post by **ZooTech** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 6:29 am

Sevulturus wrote:When I was learning to ride my MSF instructor

Oh geez, Man....keep it in your blog!

asiantay · #14 Unread post by **asiantay** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 6:38 am

There's nothing wrong with lowering the bike. You should consider that.

Loonette · #15 Unread post by **Loonette** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 8:29 am

jonnythan wrote:
jrdudas wrote:I followed the post that was mentioned earlier about the experienced rider who moved to a bike that he could not flatfoot and died after dumping the bike at a stoplight.
It's a good example, but I believe that situation was hypothetical.

Re-read the original post.

Lion_Lady wrote:Supposedly this really did happen to the friend of a member of one of my other forums.

Doesn't mean it's absolutely a true situation, but why question it if the orginal poster was told that it really did happen - do you think that these sorts of things don't really happen? Truth is stranger than fiction...

Cheers,
Loonette

jonnythan · Thu Sep 14, 2006 8:40 am

Loonette wrote:
Lion_Lady wrote:Supposedly this really did happen to the friend of a member of one of my other forums.
Doesn't mean it's absolutely a true situation, but why question it if the orginal poster was told that it really did happen - do you think that these sorts of things don't really happen? Truth is stranger than fiction...

Cheers,
Loonette

Thanks, I missed that post. I saw the post that said:

Lion_Lady wrote:The originator wanted to 'prove' that no one should ride a bike they can't flat foot.

and thought the guy from the other forum made it up.

Who knows, maybe he did anyway

Sev · #17 Unread post by **Sev** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 9:02 am

ZooTech wrote:
Sevulturus wrote:When I was learning to ride my MSF instructor
Oh geez, Man....keep it in your blog!

You have to much free time.

Loonette · #18 Unread post by **Loonette** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 9:20 am

jonnythan wrote:
Loonette wrote:
Lion_Lady wrote:Supposedly this really did happen to the friend of a member of one of my other forums.
Doesn't mean it's absolutely a true situation, but why question it if the orginal poster was told that it really did happen - do you think that these sorts of things don't really happen? Truth is stranger than fiction...

Cheers,
Loonette
Thanks, I missed that post. I saw the post that said:
Lion_Lady wrote:The originator wanted to 'prove' that no one should ride a bike they can't flat foot.
and thought the guy from the other forum made it up.

Who knows, maybe he did anyway

Oh, ya - I guess that does make it more of a possibility that it was made up. Still, I've seen some strange things happen in my life. A girl I knew back-in-the-day stabbed a fork through her middle finger while trying to open a pineapple. The two middle prongs of the fork went directly on either side of her middle finger bone, yet though the skin entirely. I was only 8 years old and it totally freaked me out (in an almost humorous way). At least her experience taught me how not to open a pineapple.

Cheers,
Loonette

Dragonhawk · Fri Sep 15, 2006 4:09 pm

Never get a bike you can't flatfoot.

I don't care if you have 20 years of experience; You're gonna have a hell of a time parking on a hill or duckwalking out of a parking spot if you can't flatfoot your bike.

Lots of people will disagree with me.

Lots of them have bought a lot of clutch levers.