Originally Posted by givuhcky22

you might not realize that a deer is shooting out from the side of the road.

Originally Posted by pizzot

you should never let anyone ride your machine i dont care if its your father ,its not a car it dont get fender benders ,,they get completely wrecked ,,so i see it this way if you dont posess or are in posession of a bike of same value or equal value and you dont have some thing i can take from you right them and there your never even sitting on my bike .well as for mine its just a straight go fuck yourself your not riding it ,,itslike my wife your not borrowing her either ,,if you dropped or wrecked mine at all i now own yours ,,and im not asking im taking it or ill ghost ride that shit itno a tree for you..basically if you dont own one you dont belong on one .so go take your chances like i did buy your own and ru the risk or learning ,wrecking on your own ..its not worth our friendship

Originally Posted by lil636

many different things can.

a) low tire pressure at high speeds.
b) your tire comes of the ground during high acceleration and comes down at an angle.

those are the most common I've seen.

Originally Posted by sirgilbert

In the above vid, I think his upshift caused it by momentarily allowing the front tire to hop. That's happened to me before as well...you clutchless upshift and the next gear grabs with a slight jerk and unloads the front suspension as you go over a slight bump and voila! a tankslapper. This guy got really lucky as he was able to reign it in and get off the track to change his underwear.

Firming up the rear suspension can help sometimes too, but only if your suspension isn't set up properly to begin with...

Originally Posted by LoboZX

so i bought my first bike a month ago and i pretty much learned to ride a crotch rocket on my own with the knowledge of the MSF course. 2 weeks after i was already riding almost comfortably, my brother kept asking me to let him ride my bike. Now, he is really stubborn and he kept saying, "Man, i can ride that shyt better than you...i know how to ride already..i watched some youtube videos...it's EASY!.." i was like "WTF? lmao" anyways, kept asking and asking but i kept saying NO! i usually work in the day time and one day i find my bike parked not at the same spot i had left it. When i saw this I was so FURIOUS(im so anal about my things sometimes). I went to him and asked why was my bike moved. he said, "i rode it" WTF? i didnt believe him and i thought he was playing with me. the next day he did the same thing and again i was FURIous. so the next day, he starts he grabs my helmet and gloves and takes my keys from my room as it were his. i was like O_O, "WTF is he actually gonna take my bike?" anyways, he was serious. I wanted to see if he can really ride it and him being 5'6 tippy toeing it. he turned it on and i told him if he dropppes it and breaks anything he would have to pay it beacause it would not pass inspection. so i convinced him to not to ride. I felt bad beacuse i saw his face down. i thought about for 15 mins and i told him we would go to a parking lot where it's safe. So we went. so he got my bike and he actually rode it. i gave him some pointers and he was doing fine until he was making a turn and had the throttle revved up and clutch in. I was like OMG...he's gonna wreck.. he ended up pulling the front breaks really hard and dropped my bike. the throtle spun the bike as he let go of clutch and ended up scratching the bottom fender. it was a small scratch but i was okay with it. he bought me Chipotle afterwards. this is my story bit boring.

Originally Posted by sirgilbert

Pretty much sums up how I feel. Even if you own a bike I don't feel youre qualified to ride MINE. And please dont even touch my bike. I hate it when people just walk up and start looking with their hands. I let someone sit on my Ninja 650 once and he foolishly stood it up off the kickstand and almost dropped it. I had to tell him "Yeah, they are heavier than they look huh, K, get off now."

Originally Posted by givuhcky22

dude youre like a motorcycle god. you should like... race professionally. like.. oh my god you blow my mind with your mad skillz bro.

Originally Posted by clwither

Aha I got my bike up to 40 on the street after having it a week (still working on the low speed stuff in the parking lot) and thought that was to fast.... I'm just sayn...

Originally Posted by givuhcky22

haha thats the way to do it.
when i got my ninja 250, i spent the first couple weeks in a parking lot til i could hang off my bike and take tight corners. the high school near my house has a drivers ed course which helped tons.