When I was teaching, I heard a lot of stories about laying the bike down...in 1000 crashes, it was deemed to be the right thing in two of them, and of course people would ask why the CHP was taught to lay their bikes down..because they get behind them for cover..like to keep from being shot...most of us aren't faced with that scenereo.
Crash bars will reduce damage to the bike, and will make it easier to rock it back up on its tires, but they really aren't for you.
James Franklin
2411 Pine Summit DR. E
Jacksonville, Florida 32211
808-225-0994 (cell)
From: "nige_1959" <nigel.denton1@...>
Reply-To: W650riders@...
To: W650riders@...
Subject: [W650riders] Re: Bored here at work...so...
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 08:13:43 -0000
Hmmm...I wasn't thinking about me...I was thinking more in line with
save the engine!!
My uncle was a despatch rider/ convoy outrider during the war; the
first thing he was taught to do was slid the bike and dismount, thus
saving his legs. No, I tell a lie the first thing he was taught was
how to swim when he was stationed at Cattrick, this involved being
lobbed into the deep end; I suppose this is where the term 'sink or
swim' comes from.
--- In W650riders@..., "Captain Jake" <jake@...> wrote:
The practical nature of crash bars is to reduce the number and
severity of lower-body injuries while increasing the number and
severity of upper-body injuries, according to the HURT report. Good
reading.
Jake
----- Original Message -----
From: "nige_1959" <nigel.denton1@...>
Crash bars - not yet, still un-decided. I hate the look but can see
the practicalities
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