Impending impact

[Deleted member 17694]

Just for fun, when you feel the bike slipping one way and yourself going the other, what do you exclaim?

I tend to make a noise something like this at the initial onset.

I tend to shout "Oh sheeeeeeeeeeeeet", while airborne and under gravitional pull. Quite why I make the 'e' sound instead of the 'i' sound I'm really not sure, but I am consistent in that respect.

Once I'm on the ground staring up at the sky, I tend to shout "bastards" even though nobody is around and it's my fault. For reasons I also can't fathom I use the northern "basss-terds" pronunciation although I'm a southerner.

 

[JimRides]

F**ckinell, as a single, rapid three syllable word

 

[Deleted member 18370]

I think about what tyres could have improved the grip often.

My last "off" was in June this year. I was riding a 1200 Moto Guzzi in a straight line at 15 MPH. The car in front, some 60 yards away, was driving badly and stopped next to a traffic island for no reason.

My eyes were on this car.

I had ages to stop in. I could see ahead. But I was focused on the back of this car, which was behaving strangely.

Therefore, I did not notice the large amount of engine oil dumped in the road.

I should have done, but my concentration was elsewhere.

Idjut.

I touched the brakes and immediately came off. £5000 damage to the Griso and, because I wasn't going fast enough to lose the bike, it broke my leg.

I was running Metzelers, which I already knew had poor wet grip. If I had changed the tyres, I might have stayed upright-and not ruined my summer.

 

[Gubbins]

Don't say much but if I come home bleeding the wife runs away

 

[anotherkiwi]

Don't say much but if I come home bleeding the wife runs away

Next time marry a nurse!

 

[anotherkiwi]

First ride on my GSM, first rain of the summer. "Stupid b..ch" in French escaped my lips, destined for the "lady" who had just pulled out from the stop sign.

My last serious impact was in a Smart (car) doing nose over tail rolls in the Landes forest and I distinctly remember screaming "I don't want to die!". Apparently I was heard. And @Papa Lazarou watch out for aviation fuel on a wet road. Aviation fuel a.k.a. kerosene is of course another type of more highly refined diesel.

 

[Benjahmin]

Last time I came of a bike it was a Royal Enfield Continental GT and must have been...........1972 I think.
Perhaps I'm just not adventurous.

 

[Will Tinker]

Haven't actually come off my eBike (yet!), but had a couple of very close moments when on slippery ground.

My noise of choice:

"Eep"

 

[Izzyekerslike]

As bike slips away and I anticipate that this could be painful the first expletive is a single aw f*ck after that depending on how bad it gets I add further number of f*cks eg. Aw f*ck.....f*ck,f*ck,f*ck by then I'm on the ground or in a bush shouting B*stard

 

[Gubbins]

My only slip up thankfuly

 

[EddiePJ]

As bike slips away and I anticipate that this could be painful the first expletive is a single aw f*ck after that depending on how bad it gets I add further number of f*cks eg. Aw f*ck.....f*ck,f*ck,f*ck by then I'm on the ground or in a bush shouting B*stard

None of that that is good, and I truly feel for you.

I suspect that the worst of it for you was knowing that you couldn't ride the bike back to the car/home.

I have loads of off's, thankfully most of them are at just a few mph when trying to do stupid things that only someone 30 plus years younger should be trying. My most common injury is hitting the crown jewels.

I guess that wearing a codpiece/cricket box under my lycra cycling shorts, could set a new trend and gain female attention! I'll avoid any rides that take place on the South Downs close to Brighton though.

 

[LeighPing]

If you shout "Aargh!" it opens your mouth so that you don't bite your tongue off.

 

[IR772]

If you shout "Aargh!" it opens your mouth so that you don't bite your tongue off.

Can you add the video where you F the dog as he pulls you in the hedge.

Very Very funny.

 

[LeighPing]

At 5 in the morning, it was hilarious!

 

[Highside43]

F**ckinell, as a single, rapid three syllable word

Plus one...usually pre, during and post crash.

 

[Highside43]

Is this good enough reason to shout out at impending doom?

150mph brake failure at the Hairpin, Mallory Park (after coming through Lake Esses at that speed, then braking down to 20mph for the hairpin - or not as the case may be....)

Enjoy.

 

[Croxden]

I never say anything before or after, not out loud anyway.

 

[anotherkiwi]

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Looks like you were trying to save parking space?

 

[D8ve]

Good responses stand up go check the bike, don't even look around
Referring to highsides that is. Me my reactions are so slow I fall off then it's too late to make a noise when sitting in the gutter.