What happened when your HT seized?

[HybriDude]

My chain tensioner went into the spokes --so now i have a hole drilled thru the frame and a bolt goes thru it !!

Do you put that down to gear failure or loose chain tensioner?

What do you think of this idea? It's a common freewheel that I took the pawls out of.

 

[Skyliner70cc]

I was going almost 30mph on my HT downhill at full throttle when my needle wrist pin bearing failed. The engine seizure locked up my rear tire. I simply pulled the clutch in and regained the control that I had lost. No big deal if you have an engine seizure but practicing and rehearsing in your mind your immediate action procedures if you have an emergency is important.

How many of you practice emergency stopping? How many of you practice countersteering to avoid an obstacle at a high rate of speed?

 

[robin bird]

Do you put that down to gear failure or loose chain tensioner?

What do you think of this idea? It's a common freewheel that I took the pawls out of.

Looks like a great idea !!!

 

[machiasmort]

I'm still looking to run over my first Little Old lady on her way to get the mail out of her box. I want to have a good buzz on when I do it tho... The bars close to darn early in NY!

 

[HybriDude]

I was going almost 30mph on my HT downhill at full throttle when my needle wrist pin bearing failed. The engine seizure locked up my rear tire. I simply pulled the clutch in and regained the control that I had lost. No big deal if you have an engine seizure but practicing and rehearsing in your mind your immediate action procedures if you have an emergency is important.

How many of you practice emergency stopping? How many of you practice countersteering to avoid an obstacle at a high rate of speed?

Thanks for that Skyliner.

I must admit that I've never thought about until I was chatting with Irish John, but I am much more aware of it now.

Do you participate in any competition to develop your skills?

 

[Skyliner70cc]

Hybri,
Emergency stopping, countersteering are all basic skills taught when you take a motorcycle safety foundation safety course to get a motorcycle license. As a former military pilot, I'm very focused on safety. In flight school, we spent 1/2 our time practicing immediate action procedures for a variety of in flight emergencies.

When I was a teen, I got hit head on by a car. I was very fortunate because I knew to let go of the handlebars and flew over the vehicle. A tuck and roll that I had learned in a martial arts class allowed me to land on the concrete and received only scratches and scrapes. BTW, I was riding on a one way narrow bridge and the driver was a drunk, unlicensed, illegal alien...this was back in 1981.

 

[machiasmort]

I studied Shaolin Kempo for a long time before hurting my back... I'm not sure if it was that or spareing with my good friend,(a near expert in Judo), that saved my hide a few times the same way you describe!

 

[BoltsMissing]

Do you participate in any competition to develop your skills?

Skyliner70cc Hybri,
Emergency stopping, countersteering are all basic skills

Skills 2 cents worth.
Public Go-Kart tracks is a fine and convenient way to practice reflex and basic stuff to.
Lots of split second decsion making. Great fun and ya don't have to own a Go-Kart. I pay for at least 3 succesive rides cos ya just cannot get enough of that type of fun thing. And the fumes/tyre rubber is a fix all on it's own.

One time I drove for a living, from that expirience proffesional drivers progressively develop a "read the traffic" skill thing. It's similar to sports such as football for example, where you often hear a commenatator say, "they read the play well". In a word, providence comes to mind,
( pro evidence )

But in driving, "read the traffic" or learnig to "read traffic" on a MB, many drivers are not yet aware the MB is traveling at a faster speed than a normal bike. A inexpirienced cager will make a decsion to turn based on a approaching object, that from a distance seems to have pedals, but not yet aware it is traveling faster than it usually is, and not peddling. A slight moment of, "huh ?"
It is at that precise point a MB rider has to determine, "have they or havn't they decided this bicycle is not a normal bicycle" where speed and distance is being judged to take the next action by the cager,to brake or go, where if go is decided, then the MB speed may require
"re-negotiations". All this stuff done in nanoseconds.
Hotels get extra attention at their parking exits for obvious reasons.

Same goes with lights on a MB, I've noticed a cager will get the light's attention far more effectively if it's switched to flashing mode rather than just on.
I have arrived to a conclusion that rather than curse and one-finger-salute most cagers, depending, a peace sign works better, they remember for the next time, and GAIN some level of mutual respect.

 

[machiasmort]

People do some stupid stuff to me up here because you don't see to many of these arround yet. I have to expect the unexpected. My bike is really quiet and people don't react until I pass them.

 

[Skyliner70cc]

Bolts,
You are 100% correct. Cagers almost always underestimate our speed and turn into our lanes, cutting us off and putting us into interesting situations. I almost always assume that regardless of how fast I'm going that my right of way is meaningless by a car looking to turn onto my route.