Roadster down

[Gary1945]

Get well soon for both of you,the bike will fix easier than your backsides,stay safe keep the rubber on the road.

 

[bruce aussie]

Hope you both heal quickly.....

From what you've written, it sounds like you do a lot of peg scraping.

The more you scrape em down the less warning you get till the hard parts hit.

With a pillion's weight, the clearance is lessened.

So as I understand this, a hard part of frame hit and removed your traction and you low-sided.

The question that comes to my mind is how do you (or do you) shift your body weight while riding?

Do you lean weight into the corner...which keeps the bike more upright (and gains traction)?

Do you lean to the outside of a corner...which creates more lean, more chance to scrape (and reduces traction)?

Or do you keep body centered with bike, (which falls between the two above)?

If you already are leaning into the turns (left for lefts, right for rights), you may have no choice but to slow down (well you might file your frame down a bit in critical contact spots..... I'm not recommending that but I've seen others do it).

But if you're not already leaning body weight into turns, you have the potential to gain clearance and minimize scraping by shifting body weight.

Footpeg rail scraped up the front lifting the front tyre of the road.I just ride the thing don't bother getting off the seat . Now I know were the limit is I'll be right. Just ease of a bit.

 

[bruce aussie]

Went into Triumph to check on progress today. not much action yet. I'll be back in there Monday. QBE are a bit of a pain with jacket and helmet claims they want us to post damaged gear to Melbourne for claim.

 

[CanberraR3]

Went into Triumph to check on progress today. not much action yet. I'll be back in there Monday. QBE are a bit of a pain with jacket and helmet claims they want us to post damaged gear to Melbourne for claim.

Mate of mine had to do that too. In fact I parcelled them up for him while he was still in hospital. They came through no worries though.

 

[Ogremeister]

Footpeg rail scraped up the front lifting the front tyre of the road.I just ride the thing don't bother getting off the seat . Now I know were the limit is I'll be right. Just ease of a bit.

You do not have to "drag your knees" or "get off of the seat".

Relatively small shifts will greatly enhance your cornering clearance.

Many riders tend to keep their body upright as the bike leans....this REDUCES your cornering clearance.

The way some people discribe proper weighting to enhance cornering clearance has been called "kissing the mirrors".

As you approach a left, your body moves a bit as if you were going to look at your lips in the left mirror (you don't actually look at the mirror or kiss it).

So approaching a sharp left, you would roll onto your left butt cheek....not leave the seat or move position but your right butt cheek would be up a bit or at least unweighted.

You will develope a feeling of the left butt cheek pushing the seat towards the right.

And, of course, this is all reversed for the appproach to a sharp right turn.

 

[zimtuff]

Went into Triumph to check on progress today. not much action yet. I'll be back in there Monday. QBE are a bit of a pain with jacket and helmet claims they want us to post damaged gear to Melbourne for claim.

Thats good to know though,I wasnt aware they covered the jacket and helmet.

 

[STRIPES]

Glad you survived. As I get older, now I find every time I drag one my putt buckers.

 

[Groove]

Don't worry

Don't worry, we've all done stupid stuff. I tried jumping mine one wheel at a time over a pretty high curb. Didn't work out so well... Surprisingly heavy bike when she leans...and leans...and leans some more....

 

[bruce aussie]

Thats good to know though,I wasnt aware they covered the jacket and helmet.

QBE cover all safety gear helmets, jackets, gloves, boots, draggin jeans I'm not sure about ordiary levi's I have to check that out.

 

[HansO]

So Do Shannons, they cover riding gear, very good to deal with to, mate has had two claims with them no problems