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General Category => Totally Off-Topic Discussions, Rants, Tire & Oil Threads, Etc. => Topic started by: balibeemer on March 27, 2009, 11:12:18 PM

Title: It's amazing............
Post by: balibeemer on March 27, 2009, 11:12:18 PM: what can fall off a Harley!
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Post by: aussie on March 27, 2009, 11:29:59 PM: Ouch!

Ya know - he just must be thanking his lucky stars that he 'suited' up that morning. Can you imagine the injuries he would have sustained if he hadn't?
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Post by: balibeemer on March 27, 2009, 11:32:16 PM: I think this cornering technique is inspired by Johnny Walker.............
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Post by: montmil on March 28, 2009, 08:07:13 AM: All that blingy chrome throwing lottsa purty sparks. Oh, snap! No Hailwood. [smiley=thud.gif]

Monte fallen off enough times to know better Miller
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Post by: drewboid on March 30, 2009, 11:04:54 AM: Bad cornering technique indeed! However, I see in the first pic that the bike was already throwing sparks - by the second pic the front wheel was on the centerline and headed across, and I don't see a guard rail beyond - I think he bailed out rather than trying to fly. Considering how he was dressed and helmeted it could have been his first good decision of hte day. YMMV.
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Post by: nhmaf on March 30, 2009, 12:35:58 PM: Indeed !

I like bikes that can lean over a few more degrees before grinding, myself.
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Post by: trolle on April 02, 2009, 07:04:22 AM: I've seen a similar situation on video - the bike started tankslapping in the middle of the turn and after trying to control the slapping, which the he should not have done, according to the instructor showing the video, the rider chose to dismount.

As the bike was a Harley too and the rider was dressed the same, I will draw the very scientific conclusion, that this way of riding is a particular Harley rider way.

I should talk having tried the same thing my self, but I chose to stay on the bike waiting to dismount until the speed was agreeable for dismounting. On the other hand if there is a fall at the left side of the road, this, as Drewboid states: could have been his first good decision of hte day

greetings from a warm and sunny north
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Post by: Bengt_Phorqs on April 02, 2009, 12:45:47 PM: Now you boys are all being too hard on that guy. If you look really closely you can see that he has on proper footwear.
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Post by: trolle on April 03, 2009, 04:25:09 AM: I'm convinced that it is some sort of initiating rite as you have to be tatooed to be a real Harley rider.

greetings from a wam and still foggy north
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Post by: Ed Miller on April 03, 2009, 11:51:31 AM: Maybe ritual scars are the new tattoos, as tattoos are so common now.
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Post by: Lucky_Lou on April 03, 2009, 05:09:59 PM: I refer you to my earlier post "why we hate Harleys" ill bet he whent home and had a warm beer after that......
Lou