Laszlo
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Howdy all!
I wanted to get some thoughts and feedback on the following. Which I will start with, I am okay thankfully. I have learned it is a good way to start conversations
On Tuesday, in a parking lot of all places going maybe 15 mph headed to a work meeting from my office to across campus (wearing my helmet, riding jacket and gloves), I high sided, didn’t catch the bike (so much for dirt riding experience being helpful at least for me on pavement), and despite thinking that I cleverly landed, ended up breaking both my bones in my forearm likely b/c I put my hand out. Treatment went well, I now have two titanium plates and some screws, and two months to spend recovering and learning in a different way to prepare for the upcoming season. I used to fence and coach fencing for a couple of decades, and so I’m familiar with my own and athlete rehab mentally and physically to thread the needle of not overdoing it and getting back into good shape.
I’m looking for feedback on possible causes so I can try to avoid this in the future. As best as I can tell, in some way like many events, there was no singular cause responsible for this. Instead, I think it was a confluence of the following events (perhaps mostly b/c of me):
I’m looking really to try to see what if any of this is avoidable, and the first thing I need to do to assess that is to try to better understand what happened. I have no ego or Id in this game, so I’m not looking for a light touch. At 47, in pretty good shape, and hope to keep riding for another 40 so so looking for feedback on what I may be missing from my own perspective. I tried to get footage from public safety, but they delete everything 24 hours later, so I made my request too late given that this is not important enough of an incident to keep the recording.
Be well,
Laz
p.s: champ school grad school at the end of April in North Carolina, will certainly be a different level of event than what I had anticipated, but I know very useful, just a tad different than what I was expecting it to be look forward to seeing any of you there.
I wanted to get some thoughts and feedback on the following. Which I will start with, I am okay thankfully. I have learned it is a good way to start conversations
On Tuesday, in a parking lot of all places going maybe 15 mph headed to a work meeting from my office to across campus (wearing my helmet, riding jacket and gloves), I high sided, didn’t catch the bike (so much for dirt riding experience being helpful at least for me on pavement), and despite thinking that I cleverly landed, ended up breaking both my bones in my forearm likely b/c I put my hand out. Treatment went well, I now have two titanium plates and some screws, and two months to spend recovering and learning in a different way to prepare for the upcoming season. I used to fence and coach fencing for a couple of decades, and so I’m familiar with my own and athlete rehab mentally and physically to thread the needle of not overdoing it and getting back into good shape.
I’m looking for feedback on possible causes so I can try to avoid this in the future. As best as I can tell, in some way like many events, there was no singular cause responsible for this. Instead, I think it was a confluence of the following events (perhaps mostly b/c of me):
- cold tires, was about 40° max, from about 30.
- Me adding slightly too much throttle while still being in the turn. If I had to gauge how much throttle there was, I was probably going from 5% to about 30%.
- Link to short vid of what is a routine and completely unassuming small right hand turn in a parking lot. I high sided going right under the tree at the end of the video: https://photos.app.goo.gl/XAXsfQKP7aBSXX917.
- Doing so in an area of the parking lot that was not in the middle and so there was probably some loose granular matter?, as well as a slight incline and so the tire was more on its side.
- There was no black ice, and it was fully sunny. This was at about 0945 in the morning, after the bike had been sitting for two hours from my 30 mile commute which usually gets me into the office at 0730. This is on a triumph speed triple 1200 RS, running Dunlop mutant tires with about 2700 miles on them, and a good amount of tread remaining. The tires have handled well in wet, as well as cold temperatures.
I’m looking really to try to see what if any of this is avoidable, and the first thing I need to do to assess that is to try to better understand what happened. I have no ego or Id in this game, so I’m not looking for a light touch. At 47, in pretty good shape, and hope to keep riding for another 40
so so looking for feedback on what I may be missing from my own perspective. I tried to get footage from public safety, but they delete everything 24 hours later, so I made my request too late given that this is not important enough of an incident to keep the recording.Be well,
Laz
p.s: champ school grad school at the end of April in North Carolina, will certainly be a different level of event than what I had anticipated, but I know very useful, just a tad different than what I was expecting it to be
look forward to seeing any of you there.
