Re: Engineering 101 - Was:[ST] New Member

["Dan Wallander" <triumph99@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes I do that too when stopped at stop lights.  It's saved my butt a couple
of times  However, I was going 35 when I got rear ended.  The truck behind
me was going a bit faster...  He never stopped so I can't say whether he
was high, drunk or asleep.

Dan Wallander
Albuquerque, New Mexico
www.danwallander.com 
Triumph Sprint ST :: BMW R90/6
TSRA-VP, ABC#6313, IBA, HSTA


> [Original Message]
> From: Al Garvin <agarvin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 2/5/2004 7:44:30 PM
> Subject: Re: Engineering 101 - Was:[ST] New Member
>
> Dan Wallander wrote:
>
> >
> >I was rear ended at 35 mph a few years ago on the Sprint.  I was
instantly
> >thrown from the bike to the left and the bike went down on its left side
> >like a sack of potatoes sliding to the right.  As I was doing my best
> >Superman imitation I, too, thought what a nasty sound, the plastic
grinding
> >on the pavement.  Anyway, the damage done was similar to yours, the peg
> >twisted, the shifter torn off the bike, mirror and passenger peg scraped
> >and the fairing broken and scraped, all the left and front pins and
holders
> >for the fairing cracked, bent or broken.  
> >
> >  
> >
>  I read a report by a CHP motorcycle officer who said he never puts his 
> bike in neutral at a stop light. He alwasys keeps
> it in gear and looks in his rear view mirrors. He also said he stops 
> back a ways from the car in front of him to give himself
> some place to go in case someone  dosen't stop behind him.  Which this 
> may be a good case for splitting lanes at a stop light and
> moving to the front to get ahead of the cars behind you.  Just have to 
> watch out for that guy running the red/yellow light when you drop
> the hammer.
>




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