Phantom,

Good on you for assisting and very wise words about riding in a group.

 

Phantom, a very rational and intelligent report that is sure to save a few of us from, at least, a major scare, or maybe an injury. Good advice too on the carrying on for a bit after a prang to clear some space. Thanks mate, much appreciated.

good on you for helping....i know what you mean every since my prang i have changed big time on a bike...

Whether in a pack or alone, motorcycling requires 100% concentration 100% of the time. Don't just watch the bike in front of you, car on a freeway style, look as far ahead as you can.

 Riding in a group can be a Blast! ...but as Phantom has just seen, It can be bloody dangerous.

On a ride 2 weeks ago with a bunch of mates I ride with a lot, I noticed a newcomer occasionally riding directly behind another rider. We were all bunched up fairly tight, and at a fair pace. Personally, I hate having others ride that close behind me, unless I know em REAL well! ( may explain why I ride way ahead a lot!)

If your gonna ride like this then you gotta have somewhere to go if a bike in front of you stops suddenly! Thats why you ride in a staggered pattern, not right up the arse of the bike in front of you. You may not respond quick enough.....so make sure you got room to evade that next bike!

all to close to home that story .. we've all see those sort of accidents waiting to happen. personally speaking i no longer go on poker runs , or with groups that ride too close together .... there is too many riders who i belive r unsafe and i like clear road ahead and behind me

A couple of blokes I know had stopped riding comletely since coming off - one who came off trying to avoid a 4WD on a roundabout (mostly collarbone problems but off work for a few months with complications - the cage driver didn't even see him come off so kept driving) and one who was hit by a P Plater running a red light (lots of broken bones - the young girl repsonsible was howlying that she'd killed him and, while he was on the ground, trying to calm her down, he said it was ok and that it wasn't her fault. She used that statement to try to deny responsibility when it went to court). Anyway neither intends riding again but it's interesting that neither were HD riders.

So, serious question: maybe not as committed as some HD riders who have modified their riding style after a smash but are still riding? Maybe riders who are willing to go to all the cost and trouble that owning a HD involves are more "into" it than more casual riders.

 

Onya Phantom

 

 

 Well done Taffy........my sides are splittin!!!!!!!!!!!

Good onya Phantom. I hate seeing a biker down, though I tell ya, seeing some of those boys racers on their Jappers going crazy thru the traffic, you cant help feeling that things arent going to end well for them.