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Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 5:11 am
by jonnythan
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.
Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 6:07 am
by rugaluga
thanks for the replys! This is not my first bike. I had a 250 for ahwile and feel ready to move up.
Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 6:29 am
by ZooTech
Sevulturus wrote:When I was learning to ride my MSF instructor
Oh geez, Man....keep it in your blog!

Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 6:38 am
by asiantay
There's nothing wrong with lowering the bike. You should consider that.
Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 8:29 am
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...
Cheers,
Loonette
Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 8:40 am
by jonnythan
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

Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 9:02 am
by Sev
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.
Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 9:20 am
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...
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
Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 4:09 pm
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.
