"Camping places fix themselves in your mind as if you had spent long periods of your life in them. You will remember a curve of your wagon track in the grass of the plain like the features of a friend." Isak Dinesen
smashed the front too hard. easy to do. i've only dumped twice in my life and that was what i did both times. he must have a hell of a big front brake rotor.
Wow.... That deer was awfully small. Guy I worked with hit one coming home from work on a motorcycle late one night. Said he wasn't going that fast; deer came out in front of him as he was swerving and the deer was turning to run the other way. He just glanced off the hip and went through a small ditch and into a field. He was lucky. That guy in the video was extremely lucky. I wasn't expecting to see him be & about right away.
Yep, grabbed too much of the front brake, locked it up, maybe loose gravel on road surface.
Had a deer in front of me at night when I came over a rise one time, everything went into slow motion. I heard the front tire howling on the verge of lockup, deer seemingly ambled out of the way.
I let off the brakes and the bike snapped straight from an angle, unknowingly I had unloaded the back wheel. I ended up sitting on the gas tank after it snapped straight but didn’t go down.
After that I only used the front brake, except when conditions were slick, when I preferentially used the back brake. ABS wasn’t widely known back then.
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
Yep, grabbed too much of the front brake, locked it up, maybe loose gravel on road surface.
Had a deer in front of me at night when I came over a rise one time, everything went into slow motion. I heard the front tire howling on the verge of lockup, deer seemingly ambled out of the way.
I let off the brakes and the bike snapped straight from an angle, unknowingly I had unloaded the back wheel. I ended up sitting on the gas tank after it snapped straight but didn’t go down.
After that I only used the front brake, except when conditions were slick, when I preferentially used the back brake. ABS wasn’t widely known back then.
ABS is an amazing thing. It's saved my ass a couple of times. Unless it was a classic bike, I'll never buy another one without it.
Aim for the coyote/deer, don’t lock the brakes....it won’t be there when you get there! memtb
You should not use a rifle that will kill an animal when everything goes right; you should use one that will do the job when everything goes wrong." -Bob Hagel
“I’d like to be a good rifleman…..but, I prefer to be a good hunter”! memtb 2024
