Tyre sliding around under straight line acceleration.
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LoonR1 said:
Really? You've been to the edge a few times, yet ride like a granny and there are chicken strips and the bike spins when bolt upright in a straight line.
Never heard of Jimmy Hill, and don't understand the meme/pic? Either way my first few posts literally explained that I'm super new to this, not a good rider and I'm not riding it hard at all. Which is exactly why I wanted to know what was causing it to spin out. My very first and second post say it's likely to be me being crap but could it be something else?
Also if you read all my posts you'd see that I explain the timeline between getting more confidence to lean more (this just means improving, getting lower etc, not knee down, edge of tyre action) and then getting my confidence knocked when the slipping started (not driving around at 10kph, but just being more nervous and not overtaking/filtering as I was worried it might spin). Not sure why you're thinking I'm talking about extremes, I'm just new to biking and wanted to know what was happening.
Edited by roboR on Thursday 30th July 10:27
LoonR1 said:
I hope you're Spanish and not British. Jimmy Hill is a British football institution. He's also got the biggest chin ever seen, as well as spouting some utter crap as a footballer, commentator and host
of Match of the Day way back when.
If you're as crap as you say them please don't claim to ride to within a few mm of the edge of your tyre it won't be happening, or if it is on slippy Spanish roads, then I'd expect to see a thread fairly soon about repairing a damaged bike.
I'm British, but don't watch or follow football whatsoever. of Match of the Day way back when.
If you're as crap as you say them please don't claim to ride to within a few mm of the edge of your tyre it won't be happening, or if it is on slippy Spanish roads, then I'd expect to see a thread fairly soon about repairing a damaged bike.
As for the remainder is it really that hard to understand that I was improving and getting better and then freaked myself out. I might be slightly self deprecating but you seem to be taking everything so literally as if I'm claiming I was going knee down everywhere and now drive at 10kph. I simply repeated what the guy from the garage said. For all I know he could have been humoring me. My chicken strips are pretty big as I said earlier, and I'm not at all embarrassed about them or trying to claim I'm anything I'm not. I'd rather be a safe driver than a fast one at the moment (which is why I posted this question in the first place).
Also everything you've asked me about literally has zero relevance to the point of the thread, which was why my rear tyre was slipping out on the straights...
Edited by roboR on Thursday 30th July 10:51
sc0tt said:
I'm going to jump on the bandwagon.
50kph speed limits, you drive like a granny but can get to the edge a few times and yet you can spin the wheels.
I think it's in your head mate.
LOL, well...50kph speed limits, you drive like a granny but can get to the edge a few times and yet you can spin the wheels.
I think it's in your head mate.
Two different countries (Spain with nice winding roads and higher speed limits, Gibraltar with 50kph, blind corners and slow driving).
Spinning wheels was happening in a straight line. Never said I get all the way to the edge, nor does it have any relevance to the issue I first posted.
Ahhhh this thread has gone off on a tangent and I'm just repeating myself, I should probably give up on it and just thank those that actually tried to help a noob out rather than insult me based on the idea that I'm trying to show off about having chicken strips or something?
Edited by roboR on Thursday 30th July 11:37
Haha that is of course not a pic of my bike, I'm not going to go out of my way to get a pic of chicken strips and then try and drive dangerously to get a video of my tyre spinning. My chicken strips are smaller than that but I wouldn't really say by a lot.
Anyways captainslow is probably right, the mechanic was likely just humoring me. The rest of the thread however is not fiction, the tyre spinning out did happen. As a load of other posters have said in Europe they've seen similar I wouldn't have said it's particularly far fetched. It probably was a s
tty road and I just didn't realise.
Anyways captainslow is probably right, the mechanic was likely just humoring me. The rest of the thread however is not fiction, the tyre spinning out did happen. As a load of other posters have said in Europe they've seen similar I wouldn't have said it's particularly far fetched. It probably was a s
tty road and I just didn't realise. Edited by roboR on Thursday 30th July 12:54
LoonR1 said:
100% this.
Since you never once replied to my question (even a 'you're ham fisted') and instead decided to not believe the situation could possibly have happened (why would I make up that I'm stty at driving a bike? Not sure what street cred that gets me) then thanks for leaving. Reardy Mister said:
Very easy to get some wheel spin at low speeds in the dry on some of the slippery, shiny, continental roads (same in the middle east and Oz, I've found). You need to be being pretty ham-fisted with the throttle though.
All it would take is for the OP to have experienced that, with some mediocre cornering ability on some grippier roads to have the breadth of different experiences he's mentioned here. No need for a witch hunt, its not like there would be any benefit in making it up.
That would make sense. I was definitely being ham fisted when I spun it out on the straight wanting to accelerate fast. However in Spain out of town it's always felt so grippy, and I'd read before that under normal acceleration the front will lift before the back spins so was just confused. All it would take is for the OP to have experienced that, with some mediocre cornering ability on some grippier roads to have the breadth of different experiences he's mentioned here. No need for a witch hunt, its not like there would be any benefit in making it up.
As for the last past... exactly. Literally no benefit to making up that I'm a s
t driver with chicken strips who can't even go in a straight line. Was embarrassed to even post the question at first because I realised it would make me look rubbish. LoonR1 said:
I was agreeing with someone else whose only other post was "custard", yet you quote my response and not his. Also you referenced "being insulted by Loon Domingues that makes me a member". Very Insightful for someone so new.
Own up. You're either a WUM, or a kid on school holidays. Either way your story is garbage and who the fk drives or rides round Gibraltar anyway? It's about 3 miles long and most of that is a big fking hill with no roads at one end and a massive runway at the other.
I assumed he was referring to the chicken strip picture and thought it was all a big wind up leading up to that pic or something. I'm not trying to wind you or anyone up, it's not a cool story or anything I'd be proud of. I'd much rather drive properly and be good at driving, which is why I posted up something weird that happened to me and didn't know if it was normal or me being rubbish. Own up. You're either a WUM, or a kid on school holidays. Either way your story is garbage and who the f
k drives or rides round Gibraltar anyway? It's about 3 miles long and most of that is a big fking hill with no roads at one end and a massive runway at the other. As for the joke about being insulted by you I was only trying to be lighthearted. I've been lurking on these forums since early last year long before doing my test or getting a bike, so I've seen your posts etc of course.
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