So Dale ..... what's gone and happened then?

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D-Rider · #1 Post by **D-Rider** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 11:45 pm

Falcopops · #2 Post by **Falcopops** » Sun Sep 27, 2009 10:11 pm

Where is that from? Facebook? twitter? or some other similar site?

Deffo not me, I don't do those sort of sites, although it's been so long since I rode the comment is likely to be accurate.

D-Rider · #3 Post by **D-Rider** » Sun Sep 27, 2009 10:21 pm

'tis the other Dale from this Forum. One of the clues is that whilst you are a Dale, you aren't a Mckeown.

Since you emigrated to OZ we had to re-stock the Dale contingent.

.... and it is Facebook

Falcopops · #4 Post by **Falcopops** » Sun Sep 27, 2009 10:27 pm

Not too sure about this other Dale malarky, I'm not used to sharing, so in my best John Wayne drawl

This site ain't big enough for the both of us!

Just to keep the record straight I didn't move half way round the world 'coz I was scared, honest.

Aladinsaneuk · #5 Post by **Aladinsaneuk** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 5:14 am

would that be honest injun?

Dalemac · #6 Post by **Dalemac** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 8:46 pm

Just the usual trye spinning when setting off from a set of traffic lights and all the way through a right hand turn. I could feel the bike trying to go straight on as i was trying to turn anf the squeal of the cold tyre.

just waiting for the front wheel to pop up now and then the nasty surprises are over!

D-Rider · #7 Post by **D-Rider** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 9:53 pm

Not quite sure how you managed that - don't think I've ever had the rear spin up pulling away - but the front has come up on many occasions - one of my sons often reminds me of this happening when he was on the back .... in the pouring rain .... front wheel riding way up as we went past the cars

#8 Post by **Kwackerz** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 10:07 pm

Yooligan!

HowardQ · #9 Post by **HowardQ** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 11:15 pm

Did you forget to let the front brake off Dale ??

Seriously, it's not always fun. Theres a hill near us with a quarry site at the bottom, gets lots of crap on the road. It's also just as you come out of the 30 into unrtestricted.
The Council makes em clean it, so they send out a truck with large rotary brushes and and tiny water jet, so it sort of spreads a fine film of mud all over the road rather than just in the lorries wheel tracks where you can see it. It's usually OK unless you can really see the mud, but sometimes there is just a damp film of mud and I have had the Falco spin up at about 70 in 4th on a slight bend up the hill and you have to catch pretty quick.
Worst one for me was on a dual carriageway on a bit of the A57 just outside Worksop. I was on the old CBR Thou, (big heavy lump, long with 135 bhp). Flash boy racer in front sees me coming up quick behind about to overtake and decides to have a go, so I pull out to the right and opens up in 3rd or 4th at about 70, I must have hit a patch of diesel, as the rear spun up instantly and went right, I try to correct it and starts to fishtail, keep correcting and steady braking, until it eventually stops then goes into a tank slapper on the front. Must have been in one or the other for neartly 200 metres.
Gradually got it out of this, but leather jeans were scrap after that probably filled the boots as well.
Looked behind and boy racer had mouth and eyes wide open!
I felt the same mate.

Not always a fun thing, believe me, so take care.

Dalemac · #10 Post by **Dalemac** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 1:18 pm

i still havent had the front pop up yet, and its not like i havent been giving it any!

im sure its restricted, need to get around to checking it out....

paddyz1 · #11 Post by **paddyz1** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 2:33 pm

I had a nice suprise through a left hander in the rain a few weeks back. The back wheel started spinning up and i was effectivly 'drifting' through the corner. It felt excellent (and i like to think it looked good too) but in reality it happend so fast that it was over before i could react. If i ws to try it deliberatly i will defo fall off or highside at worst.

Felt good though

D-Rider · #12 Post by **D-Rider** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 2:43 pm

paddyz1 wrote:I had a nice suprise through a left hander in the rain a few weeks back. The back wheel started spinning up and i was effectivly 'drifting' through the corner. It felt excellent (and i like to think it looked good too) but in reality it happend so fast that it was over before i could react. If i ws to try it deliberatly i will defo fall off or highside at worst.

Felt good though

Know what you mean about the feeling it'll all end in tears if you do it deliberately. I guess when these things happen by accident you're going at a speed/throttle opening you expect to be OK so are only just above the actual limit. Try to force it and you probably push it much too far.
Had the front slide a bit on a slow corner going to work the other morning ... was not far from home & think that as it's a bit cooler and the tyre not having warmed was not quite as grippy as it has been the past few months. No big deal but I'd not be keen to try to recreate it.

Falcomille · #13 Post by **Falcomille** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 4:03 pm

Rain?? What's that?

#14 Post by **mangocrazy** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 4:11 pm

Hi Pete, I presume the weather in the SofF is still perfect for riding bikes? I was over at the end of September (working on the house) and we had temps in the high 20s C all week long and flawless blue skies.

Now I'm stuck here in grey and gloomy England with a dose of Man Flu...

Falcomille · #15 Post by **Falcomille** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 7:38 am

Hi Graham.. sorry I missed you. We had a bit of rain last week, enough to make the weeds wake up, but it's the first we had since probably the end of May. Getting a bit chilly some nights though, had to light the woodburner last week.
Had a short ride on saturday.. I was starting to enjoy it a bit as well. Did Spanish border a few weeks back when my mates came down from the UK. Anyhow - enjoy the weather.. Eamon Holmes tells us you're in for an Indian Summer...