Back wheel locking up!!!

[ponters]

Kinda freaky given it was Cobba's anniversary yesterday but.....

When I was in Tassie and hooked up with the local fellas down there Albatross told me something that saved my arse today and makes me wonder if it is possible that the same thing happened to Cobba.

I went for a ride this morning and with the week I've had, the weather being stunning, the traffic quiet and riding with my sports bike mates, let's just say that we were pushing on. There was a section of rode that was pretty new just before the slide out of Yarra Glen so there was a bit of loose stone about but if you stayed on the correct line all was ok. Problem was one of the guys in front of me powered out of a corner to hard and ended up drifting his rear tyre across the loose stone, flicking it up at me.

Naturally I breaked to give him space but my rear locked up. As i was virtually straight upright I was ok and I was doing less than 140k but a locked rear is not good. I instantly jabbed the rear brake as I cracked the throttle open HARD!! Exactly what happened to Duncan, happened to me.

This is what you need to know. !!!

What had happened is as I applied the rear braked a little stone flew up under the pedal so as I released my foot pressure it got jammed up and looked the rear wheel. Now if it wasn't for my Tassie brother telling me this is what happened to him and me thinking 'I wonder if this happened to Cobba.?' anyway because I remembered I jabbed the brake allowing the stone to fall free and by wide open throttling it i was able to keep the rear sliding as it was drifting out, then simply just eased the counter stear open and drifted out of it.

If I hadn't heard of this happening. I wouldn't have know what the **** was happening g and wounded high sided down the side of the mountain.

Be aware guys, if your rear locks up after you apply rear brake and doesn't release you've probably picked up some road stone.

Time to weld something to bottom of the peg rail to stop this happening again. Perhaps you should think about doing the same.

I'm lucky I wasn't leaning too far or going to fast to sort it out.

I do seem to have developed a strange twitch in the sphincter though!

 

[TOMCAT]

Quick thinking Amigo .. glad you rode it through !!!!

 

[peter k]

You would not want that happening again .are you gonna weld a quarter inch thick piece of steel there ,just leaving enough room for the brake to operate .

 

[ponters]

yeah, definitely gonna have to do something. i wreckon the chances of it happening again are almost impossible but not worth the risk..will do it when i get around to it.

 

[rocket3jjd]

Sorry to hear that
But I loved that after ya jabbed the brake ya cracked the throttle open to keep the drift going
Most people wouldn't have done that
And that's we're most people would have found problems

When in doubt wind it out

 

[albatross]

G,day Ponters
I have passed this info onto several other riders and onto the fellas at Peter Stevens
In Melbourne and Motorworks in Hobart who replaced the rear disc after my little escapade
I can assure you all that it can happen and if it does,pull the clutch in as fast as you can and hope that you are on a straight piece of road with no oncoming traffic. I have a few ideas in my head on how to fix the problem, just haven't got around to it as yet
Safe riding
Duncan

 

[Huntin Dawg]

NICE save!! I can't get from one place to another up here without at least a couple gravel roads along the way. Thanks for the heads-up!

 

[TOMCAT]

G,day Ponters
I have passed this info onto several other riders and onto the fellas at Peter Stevens
In Melbourne and Motorworks in Hobart who replaced the rear disc after my little escapade
I can assure you all that it can happen and if it does,pull the clutch in as fast as you can and hope that you are on a straight piece of road with no oncoming traffic. I have a few ideas in my head on how to fix the problem, just haven't got around to it as yet
Safe riding
Duncan

Sure i'm not the only one that'd be interested in hearing your ideas to prevent this happening. Is this an issue with the brake pedal design set-up on the Roadsters or all Rockets. Not knowing exactly where the rock got stuck.

 

[CanberraR3]

I think if you weld something just to the bottom there'd be more chance of something getting stuck as it would have nowhere to go - assuming it lobbed in rather than flew up. Maybe wedging some rubber of foam in the space would be another way to go. I'm going to think on it that's for sure.

 

[ponters]

G,day Ponters
I have passed this info onto several other riders and onto the fellas at Peter Stevens
In Melbourne and Motorworks in Hobart who replaced the rear disc after my little escapade
I can assure you all that it can happen and if it does,pull the clutch in as fast as you can and hope that you are on a straight piece of road with no oncoming traffic. I have a few ideas in my head on how to fix the problem, just haven't got around to it as yet
Safe riding
Duncan

mate, you saved what would have been a very sorry arse here today. Thanks again mate.