Highside

[tinysmall]

My Mrs Highsided her Hyosung Cruise 2 today. Luckily there's nowt on her broken but she is very heavily bruised and sore. That'll teach her to plan ahead eh However, it now means that my days off are going to be spent looking after her rather than riding my bike. Surprisingly little damage to the Korean piece of crap though. Foot peg, mirror, one of the clocks and a dent in the tank Ambulance and police were superb Just very lucky she didn't hit anything else other than the road surface.

[Jazzscot]

Glad she is ok matey.
You will need to get some new marigolds and a apron, cause it looks like you will be on tea making duty for the rest of the week .

[Miztaziggy]

How did it happen mate?

Hope she gets well soon...

My mrs nearly had a head on the other day. We were coming up Woodhead pass on the way home, and there are some hairpin turns. She was behind on her CBR125. I wasnt going fast as I knew she was behind, but was trying to keep a steady speed so she could follow my line. Anyway, it was too fast for her and she went onto the wrong side of the road on a left hander. If there had been a lorry coming, she would have had a head on. If it was a right hander, she would have been over the edge of the barrier and down the cliff.

[tinysmall]

Was on the duel carriage way. I was quite a way back after stopping to fill up in the cage. Roadworks had it merging to one lane with no reduced speed limit (50mph) and an arctic slammed it's anchors on in front of her. Her road positioning didn't leave her an escape route and she was probably a bit closer than she should have been, she grabbed a handful and stamped on the rear, got a tankslapper then highsided. By the time I got there she was already over on the side of the road in sh1t state. Soon as she passes her test Im going to get her booked onto the bikesafe course. She really needs to learn to plan ahead, observe better and think about 'what if'.

She had two doses of morphine in the ambulance then spent the next few hours waffling nonsense (no change there then) and then threw up out of the car door on the way home

[Miztaziggy]

A duel eh?




Sounds like she was lucky...

I know what you mean about wanting to get her to a course. I dont know what to do about Sarah now, she is the type who wont take advice from me, so whether I tell her to stop riding, or hope she learns from it and can improve

[Kev L]

Sorry to hear about your better halves knock. Send her my best wishes for a speedy recovery.

[tony.mon]

Not good news, hope she heals up ok.
But you know what, I learned where the limits are by finding them, and ended up as I am now, hopefully safer but certainly better at anticipating problems and leaving myself escape room.

No one is born a good rider, it's something you have to work at, seems to me that people learn by trial and error; the key point is to learn well from your errors!
The pain and cost of repairs helps to lock it into memory......

[tinysmall]

A duel eh?

Lol. Im tired. Leave me alone. It's not my fault etc etc. Ok, so that was deserved.

I hope she does learn from her mistakes

[vtryorks]

Glad she's ok mate. Under the circumstances, cleaning puke off the car could almost be described as a pleasure.

[tinysmall]

Glad she's ok mate. Under the circumstances, cleaning puke off the car could almost be described as a pleasure.

You're supposed to clean it off? To be honest... I just left it! Lol. After all, it's only a car.

[Furrybiker]

Sorry to read about these incidents, hope it doesnt put them off, unless it should (you know what i mean).

My wife isn't one to take advice from me but when she was learning to drive i was in the passenger seat when she went round a blind lefthander on the wrong side, she thought it was funny. Then I told here that if the car that came round the corner seconds later had left home 10 seconds before, we would be dead.

She never did it again, odd thing was she learned to ride bikes years before this and would never do this on the bike...

Women

[pariah]

Sorry to her about the missuse. Mine now rides a 600 hornet and from day one I,ve told her that when she hits the start button on the bike, treat every other road user as an idiot and she wont go far wrong, my dad bless him taught me that years ago when i first started using the roads. Never let me down yet . There simple mistake can cause me major grief , even if I know the person Istill treat them the same when on the bike

[sirch345]

Sorry to hear about your better half Tinysmall. I hope she gets well soon,

Chris.

[Flatline]

I echo all that has been said before

Get well soon to your other half

[AMCQ46]

Glad she is OK, and I hope it doesnt put her off, but that it does help her learn.

Cant be easy being a motorcycle learner these days with so much traffic and such poor driving standards, so Training, paractice and good instruction is more important than ever.

I reccomend off road [ie dirt] riding as the best way to learn how the bike will react when grip is low...........falling off is the best way to learn how not to fall off [if you know what I mean!] Also how your body position & where you are looking can make big changes to the outcome.

so may be worth getting them onto an off road experience somewhere near you