Close call, but lesson learned!
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From: Taylor, MI and Munith Michigan
The video with the cop, the back brake light shut off just before he went down. He came out of torque or friction zone. That is why he fell. You can run hard frame on the ground in a turn and bring the bike back up if you have good torque and a little momentum.
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On our ride down to the BRP we were going through Ashland, KY on Rte.23 going around a hill and a pretty good bank downhill to our left. There is a traffic light in the apex of this curve, we caught the red light and had to tilt the bike over to the right foot board to keep the bike verticle. The guy in the car in the right lane was shaking his head at this piece of highway engineering. The light was added for a service road down to a Wal-Mart. That's one of the worst road anomaly I've seen in a long time. Glad you got out of it.
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Don't mean to be a kill-joy, but if you aren't a very experienced rider why are you carrying a passenger? I wouldn't think that would be a very safe for either of you.
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It's exactly the same as when the front wheel folds on you when doing really slow maneuvers without enough power to the rear wheel. If you don't know what that is, find out before it happens. In essence, I was caught in an unintentional "slow maneuver." The bike rolled forward under the power of gravity before I had sufficient throttle up to handle it.
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Too much cannot be said about the value of engine guard and saddlebag rails as they can prevent a lot of damage as well as perhaps preventing your bike from rolling over on you.
Another issue, especially with dressers that have ride floorboards is that IF you're going down, DO NOT get your foot between the floorboard and the pavement.
I was watching a guy making some practice turns (like the officer in the video) and when the bike went over his RH boot was trapped between the RH floorboard and the pavement. A few of us quickly lifted his bike.
Had I not been for his "brand new" boots, his foot may have been crushed.
Another issue, especially with dressers that have ride floorboards is that IF you're going down, DO NOT get your foot between the floorboard and the pavement.
I was watching a guy making some practice turns (like the officer in the video) and when the bike went over his RH boot was trapped between the RH floorboard and the pavement. A few of us quickly lifted his bike.
Had I not been for his "brand new" boots, his foot may have been crushed.
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I've been riding since I was 13, I'm 71 now, so that's 58 years, and hundreds of thousands of safe riding miles. Admittedly, I'm on my first Harley, with only 3,000 miles under my tires on it. But, your post has made me think. Maybe there is some difference in Harley handling that contributed to the scare. I'll be watching for that.