Skidded while turning


2008 Triumph Rocket III. #T2202242: Cover, Airbox, Chromed
 
@jtanc39
Your front wheel produces about two-thirds of your motor's stopping power. What is ironic is that it will only skid a short distance before quickly planting you and the motor on the pavement. Practicing threshold braking with the front brake is especially critical in order to achieve anything close to maximum stopping power. This point alone is one of the huge advantages of ABS!
 
You beat me to it, glad you are okay and the bike can be easily fixed now with all the replies and only one addresses the cause?????? (well two now)
"Jammed the brakes and the front wheel skidded", the front wheel has nothing else to do but skid when you grab/jam the front brake, remember a jerky input to the bike and the bike will throw it right back at you as it did.
This goes for everyone please practice your threshold braking if you do not build up the muscle memory you will do the same thing again and that goes for anyone riding a motorbike.
Not feeling great and riding do not go hand in hand, when riding any thing that can distract you is not good.
 
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Yes.... Muscle memory muscle memory... Gradual brakes, gradual brakes! Gotta chant on this everyday I ride now...
 
@EasTexRIII its really mush cheaper because they provide fixed rate shipping which means it's cheaper if I'm getting more items.

More importantly, I'm really an idiot. Glad that I learnt my lesson but fortunately not with my life.

Went to get my front wheels replaced and kept thinking that was the main cause of my accident. but Guess what... I was actually riding for a few days with a flat rear tyre. I did noticed that the rear looks deflated (yesterday) and thought maybe I didn't inflate it properly last week.

At the tyre shop, was then showed the nail on the tyre and told that it was already totally flat. Never suffered a flat on a motorcycle (car flat totally don't looked like that, it just go FLAT), I didn't even think that I had a flat.

Moral of the story check you tires. I'm not sure if it's practical to check Everyday so maybe this is an excuse to get a set of TPMS. .
 

Normal protocol (at least for me) is before I ride I check my air pressure. As I am a weekend rider it could be a week or two since my last time out and I will be low a few lbs. Any unusual loss of air and it warrants closer inspection. No room for error when you only have two wheels.
 
That's the thing, nobody can learn to panic brake. Because, you know - panic. You're not calmly modulating your brakes, you're grabbing all the brakes you can find and holding on for dear life while expecting to die at any moment, so that's where ABS comes in and saves you from yourself.

Anybody can brake very well when they try "emergency braking" - which really is "braking hard under totally controlled circumstances". Which is nothing like panic braking. So yeah, ABS is a lifesaver. I'm bummed as hell that my 2010 doesn't have it.

Oh - and on my Touring, the bearclaw is absolutely made out of metal, anyway.
 
Old N' Grumpy said:
Normal protocol (at least for me) is before I ride I check my air pressure.
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Yeah, I try to remember but often manage to miss it.

Decided to try to use technology to deal with the issue, have one of these in the mail:

 
cr0ft said:
Yeah, I try to remember but often manage to miss it.

Decided to try to use technology to deal with the issue, have one of these in the mail:

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Lol I'm looking at that too! I'm deciding between this or the Fobo.
 
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