Glad you only received somewhat minor injuries. Here's to a safe future.

 

Sucks you went down but at least you or the bike didnt get majorly banged up. I did a similar thing after i installed my tuner. Layed in the throttle real quick expecting the car way ahead of me approching a shopping center driveway with its signal on to be long turned in by the time i reached it. Well they decided they needed to come to a complete stop and idle through the turn and i came up to the rear of the car fast. I locked up both front and rear brakes the slid the bike in a 45* angle still going basically straight. I narrowly missed the car and managed to keep the bike upright and ride it out but I have no idea how i did it. I thought for sure I was going down.

 

First, thanks for sharing.

Just curious, were you wearing gloves? I alternate between a pair of Joe Rocket nylon gloves and a pair of non-motorcycle gloves from Cabela's. Luckily, I've never had the opportunity to see which works best in an accident.

 

Nope. It was one of those glorious Oklahoma days - in the morning it was just chilly enough to wear my Leather jacket and light leather gloves and (as usual) my helmet. By the afternoon it was just warm enough to dispense with the jacket and roll up the sleeves on my shirt. And then one poor decision later... heh...

 

I've seen jap bikes go almost vertical at a stop light before. Don't think the guy planned it, but his back end went up about 45 degrees at least, and came back down again with a hard lockup on the front brake. I was stopped next to him and saw the whole thing, could not believe it. From the look in his eyes, it was a unique dump in the pants event.

John

 

Glad you're ok.

 

Glad you are ok and got to love a kids thinking :-)

 

Love your daughter’s comment – that is something mine would say too!

The only time I’ve had ground contact to date was, believe it or not, with a Vespa 50 cc scooter some 25 years ago. I had my brother on the back, opened the throttle to take off and, with all the weight on the rear wheel, managed to do a wheelie and unload us both onto the road at a busy intersection…

I did have a close encounter on my Sporty (a 2007 Roadster) the other day though – similar to your case a car in front of me braked harder than I anticipated (I was obviously following too close) so I put on my front anchor so hard that my rear wheel lifted off the ground. Luckily I managed to keep it under control and came to a stop just inches away from the car… phew. A dramatic reminder about attention and following distance!

 

hhkiwi,
what front tire are you using? I never got rear up with stock Dunlop, it always just locked up. Then I switched to Avon Azaro-ST and now I can get rear up sometimes, sometimes it still locks up.

 

I have the stock Dunlops fitted BUT I was going downhill at the time and my Sporty sits very high - see photos in my garage.