On man oh man Rip, this Ozark to Ozone life is beyond my wildest imagination. Here turn Ozark Dare Devils on while i take a nip and delve deeper into how frames feel to me.
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Carbonfiber is making me watch my words so I'm shooting form the hip but not from behind. When one is thrown into crashes of various sorts some are so fast you don't know what hit ya, others extend over time enough to try something, anything as nothing to loose, yet in the cases of high sides or a front impact, fighting it out can magnify bad juju over just giving up and bailing. It take extreme fear or insane guts to fight it out at times, I know I'll lose w/o a fight so best chance is berserk action at times.
'05 I'd just gotten a unicycle to learn on when 1st deer death took out Trixie and L knee/ankle/R hip/neck but still practiced inside to half across room but dam knee was too loose to play catch on, so traded it to a Mt biker for something. I've already designed Ricochet Rabbit Ridding Range and Rifle Ranch. Knee perfect in 7 months no issue since even on new fractures like the Great Pyrenees at 12 mph to dam slow to have a chance.
How dare devil just to take a big black snake in wet sac for a Gravel road trip away and forget about it in a mile d/t the scenery to feel sharp L wrist pain and see arm size snake connected to it so reflexly fling arm but fails to dislodge it so both arms and trunk - > out the pan into fire - instant tank slapper into fence/tree's 10 ft ahead going 30+ mph. Ain't no way a front tire can grip on Grit while oscillating like mad, snapped throttle and used butt muscles to weather vane rear towards fence so its thrust helped both brake and steer back to center while front load was relieved so it could just dolly wheel the drift till in line and settled down - I checked diaper but happened too fast to fart.
Its half the answer to my question, can one drift a unicycle, if scared enough.
How dare devil to have log truck run ya off Gravel LH berm into newly graded marbled ditch with head size junk in the bottom 3-4 ft deep, riding its bank
at 30 mph leaned up hill to slow the slide down to doom, to see grader pile 30 yd ahead so no time to think just react with nothing to lose, nail it so rear weather vanned by gravity down hill unloading front so it don't rudder the bike down, just dolly wheel like flat tracker till bike about to low side then grabs a high side by cut throttle so jerks back up while slinging rear up hill as if to pass front nay shoot back onto grade as frame unwrapped in a sling shot.
Then too much momentum to brake/slow to shoot between the grader and a car pincher so stayed on it gritting teeth with rear spun some to be able to ski right between them and see where I was going out of the clouds of dense dust.
This tore the bottom of RH shock out of swing arm for sense of the side loads a Commando can tolerate while its mostly in unicycle mode. HInged handling was easy on tap the rest of the trip out and back on tarmac so I tippy toed.
To really to press bike till rear slips then front slips then leans foul and combine them on my own terms into tank slap onset and recover is just good safety practice to me, scary as can be but not as scary as losing control accidentally.
I've yet to crash in a harsh turn but have about every other way and find the threshold is way lower on regular Cdo or Al space frame rigid modern.
Its fun to drift and looks impressive but thats a load reliving condition, I too have to do it on regular Cdo or Al rigid frame, to quick save a turn or to have a bit of tire wasting fun in easy spots. I was handy enough on the SV650 to do those tight circle slow drifts but it must scrub off speed to get away with it or it jutters bars and threatens a hi side. No way do I think I can do it on regular springy Cdo. On Peel sharp angled drifts don't trip her down or fling her up, just goes out at a tangent sideways. If I flick forks into straight steering other bikes fling a hi side, Peel just grips like crazy and spins into a tighter spiral while taking more power.
At speed in chicanes Peels sudden straight steer as counter steer lets goes twists frame down into rear patch, this grips so much Peel can lift front side ways against the G's pulling it back down. As soon as front grip lets go the frame unwraps, hell it helps lift front, a cat leap comes to mind, but its in the direction you'd want front to go and then land already aimed into next line. In this state Peel is a leaned unicycle.
I call this phase 3 and it should not have any slips or instant SPLAT. Until I see other examples beside ice spiked speedway bikes or MX bikes with knob tires locked in deep Soft Dirt rut on steep banks, I remain un-impressed with the rest of the world's frame geometry technology. BTW you can not slide a unicycle on tarmac, if surpassing unicycle grip, phase 4 energy handling transition hits. That when Ms Peel really excels, alas no examples to show but crash video of others. Peel has revealed 5 phases, why ain't that part of racer school lore? I'm sucking on life hard as I can till I can't, so bring on the corner cripples and critiques and lets have a blast!
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