Mud THE Gravel and real reason for knee down antics

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tag video first and enjoy a bit of my trips traveling though magical life.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UItRRh9Cfiw[/video]

Mud THE Gravel and real reason for knee down antics to avoid front tire steering.

i've been forced learning to ride THE Gravel, Ice, snow, wet grass and leaves
in various slopes and either end blow outs, but Mud is always instant
Crisis.!

I ABHOR the knee out and down riding style but am a half fast
expert on when and why its usable, Only as a method to save or
stave off a crash but not much use to actually go around faster.

Last pm returning from after dark hitting THE Mud Trixie went nutzo
on me to point she low sided then hi sided off my L then R knee with
luggage sways aggravating the recovery too fast for fear to hit till
afterwards. I was going like 25 mph at the time.

I avoided touching ground in rain suit the whole miserable and multiple investigations of Wes's failing '71 Cdo as knew I'd be a wetter colder critter if got a hole in it. Wes would stretch out on ground or kneel to diddle bike
but not me longing in seat against luggage so long a go almost fell off
napping. Just reality checked rain suit to see hole at L knee to match
the thump I'd felt but R knee only hit mud w/o a stone so just scratched.

I told Wes how close I'd come to calling him back out to retrieve
me and he told me he also almost lost it to point of almost getting off
to walk it last leg home up muddy Mt path.

Kenny Cummings also told me he's gotten too low on his racer it
pogo'd off peg so used knee puck to lift back on tires in nick of time.
guarantee his race track ballistics made his save a piece of cake compared.

I also use knee stuck out when something shoved me onto berm crest
at edge of ditch to balance bike away from edge w/o having to use
any fork action that would slip out into the ditch. Its a crash save
action not a go faster method duh, so not very concerned to take on
the balloon tire elites track times once ole Peel is up and able.

I felt Trixie's Isolastic dong their chassis twist compliant wonder
and have gone down on my highly respected handling SV650 in
way less servere antics, so state again in case ya miss understand
me, I have nil respect for the elite moderns handling but highest
respect to those risking life and limb on such unstable unpredictable
dangerous things. My goal is to gloat on proving the isoloastic
Commando is the fastest way to travel Around, short of mental projection
the Moody Blues sings about. I'm hi as a kite having cheated
crashes twice this week. hobot
 
Dude, sounds like a LOT of damned drama just ridin' a moorsickle. Maybe you're doin it wrong? :oops: :mrgreen:
 
:D
On more than one occasion while reading the "adventures" of wes and hobot,
I have thought to myself "maybe these guys have somehow pissed off the motorcycle Gods".

I have ridden more than 500,000 miles in my life and haven't had near the mishaps,
crashes and breakdowns that these two have experienced. (knocks on wood).
 
I'm still in flabbergasted surreal shock on what happened on Trixie so much so I had to examine suit as so padded didn't feel the sharpness just blunt impact on LH knee and reflex straight steer that hi sided a save but mud instantly let go to low side on R knee then reflex-rebound straight steer so Trixie stayed up right as if nothing had happened so freaking dramatic in a flash. This happened going perfectly upright straight ahead on locked-dampened handle bars peering in fear at side line shadows in hi beam, WHOOP>SPLAT>SLURP>SPLAT putt putt putt putt putt putt as nothing to it again.
How does one - should one - could one rationally emotionally react to this?

Conditions here fuck with our minds and bikes to the core. We are sick puppies w/o much else to distract us from work a day chores or reason to mingle. Someone mentioned there is a masochistic element to this hobby, Duh and is a sore subject between me and hillbilly flavored curmudgeon philosopher Wesley. How many times you've hit a public road that was just too much to take and turned back, Wes and I have, often enough solo only later admiting defeat to the other then finding out the other turned tail too, but in mean time each of us depressed thinking how wimpy we were not to finish seeing how it came out. There is a real sense of pain in the groin riding where we must, its only 10% fun the rest is nerve wracking athletics. We know dam well there will be another out the blue take down no matter how careful we are.

If we'd left gas station instead of waiting to see if rain would slack up instead of tornado level sideways dumping we would of had to pull over and stand in it, like we done before or risk hydroplaning in the axle deep riveretts in all directions on the roads. Trixie Combat is mere interim bike to me as she's so vulnerable and not as capable as Peel who now has crash cage to survive daily use through thick or thin, the thinner the better. Come on out if ya dare.

Wes sums "THE" Gravel so eloquently here...

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cmK8dCX5ug[/video]

Mud THE Gravel and real reason for knee down antics
 
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