Crazy Close Call

TX_CBRRIDER88 · 11-10-2008, 11:41 PM

Went on a ride with a bunch of friends on Saturday. Ride was going well until my speed-o-meter cable got caught up on the inside of my fairings. I went into a left curve at around 100 mph - 115 mph, tried to make curve, but instead I ended up going bajaing in the ditch. Jumped a culvert at 85 mph and landed it. All I remember was say "oh sh*t, oh sh*t." I am a pretty advanced rider, so I think that help in staying up on this close call. If this ever happens to anyone else, my advice to you is, keep your bike straight up and down, do not try and lean in anyway.

denzee · 11-11-2008, 12:08 AM

Yes you are very fortunate. Not sure about the cable. Are you saying it kept you from steering the bike?

TX_CBRRIDER88 · 11-11-2008, 12:53 AM

Yes thats what happened. After I got stopped some of the guys stopped with me from FWMR and found the problem. There was no slack due to it being caught up in the fairings, which made the turn very hard. Resulted in me going into the ditch.

LoopyLee · 11-11-2008, 5:49 AM

Very lucky.. thank goodness you managed to walk away from that

TX_CBRRIDER88 · 11-11-2008, 10:12 AM

Thank you LoopyLee, I am very lucky.

TX_CBRRIDER88 · 11-12-2008, 5:38 AM

In the same ride that I posted my almost crash, we had a rider go down about 2 hours later on some tight quick turns. There were several of us that nearly went down in the same place. Land owner right off of the road where crash was at, told us that he was fixing his fence when a datsun slide out of control and smashed into his pickup. That is how tight this curve was. Due to the wreck with the cage, there was quite a bit of sand and gravel in the curve. As several of us had made it through the curve it was to late. His rear tire lost traction and he went down. Thankfully rider was ok, mostly bruises and his pride hurt. Bike was trashed. The whole front top of his bike was desroyed.

Rabidzoomer · 11-18-2008, 4:55 PM

Dang that sucks. I had a close call like that once but it was since i was very unexperianced at the time. I had a dream about it how i would go through the turn only i was using the choke as my throttle in the dream. A few days past and i went to take a sharp curve at about 70 (highway) when it was a 55 mph turn and my choke was still on so it gave me more throttle than i wanted and i went into the grass and started to lose traction but the tire through me up on the pavement again where i could hit the kill switch.

Ive never had that problem again

submaniac · 11-21-2008, 2:53 AM

Hey TX CBR, glad your friend is ok. From pictures of your friend's bike, it actually doesn't look that bad. See my post re: police impound CBR, and you'll see my bike has alot more damage. Nothing a little bondo won't fix!

Too bad he took out his tach (pricey to fix). Hopefully the headlights are OK as that is an expensive item too. Weird as it looks like the headlights ended up upside down and faced towards the rider on the top of the fairings. If he needs a new fork, I have a spare set (bought too many parts in rebuilding my CBR).

TX_CBRRIDER88 · 11-22-2008, 10:25 PM

There's a lot more damage than the pics show. His hydrolic resevor was tore off, and the cluster is pretty smashed up. I will let him know that there are some forks if he needs them. Let me know what you want for them.
Rabidzoomer, my close call wasn't rider malfunction. My tach cable got caught up in the inside of my fairings. Yes a bike check of anything loose or out of place, could of been done a little bit better. I'm just very thankful I was able to stay up and not crash and burn. Bodily damage would of been pretty bad, due to how fast I was going when I jumped the culvert. Of course bike would of been in pieces. I'm a pretty experenced rider myself, I have had several close calls and a couple lay downs. I learned from everyone of them, so I almost have to say it was skill that kept me up. Dont get me wrong, it only takes a second and your spitting gravel out of your mouth.