Essential to be able to flat foot a ss bike

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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.
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thanks for the replys! This is not my first bike. I had a 250 for ahwile and feel ready to move up.
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Sevulturus wrote:When I was learning to ride my MSF instructor
Oh geez, Man....keep it in your blog! :x























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#14 Unread post by asiantay »

There's nothing wrong with lowering the bike. You should consider that.
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#15 Unread post by Loonette »

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...

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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...

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


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You have to much free time.
Of course I'm generalizing from a single example here, but everyone does that. At least I do.

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#18 Unread post by Loonette »

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...

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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.

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#19 Unread post by Dragonhawk »

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.

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