Why I ride a big engined bike !!
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Picture the scene its 7 am I am 2 miles from Canary Wharf on the A13 heading east at the junction for the Blackwell tunnel, I am following a class of vehicle that is dangerous, its a old Toyota Carina driven by someone from the sub-continent.
The road has 3 lanes, right hand lane to turn into the tunnel the other two for straight on A13, the queue is big on the right so move to the inside lane the Toyota in the middle lane.
Then it happens a blinged up rude BMW 3 series driven by who you expect decides to wheel spin out of the right hand queue to the middle lane to drive and cut in at the lights, the Toyota brakes but will never stop in time and swerves into the inside lane where yours truly was, I glance right and see the Toyota heading straight into the side on me and begin evasive action, I swerve left and grab as much throttle as I can but the toyota bonnet is within inches of my leg.
Then the wall of torque kicks in and the K1200s starts to edge me away, as it does I received a nudge on the pannier which wobbled the bike.
In a second I was 30 metre away and sat up at 40 mph and throttled off, sat up, adrenaline surging to my surprise both cars braked and crawled at 5 mph behind me refusing to catch up. It was just aswell for them because I would have lost the plot.
No damage to bike or rider but it was oh so close
The road has 3 lanes, right hand lane to turn into the tunnel the other two for straight on A13, the queue is big on the right so move to the inside lane the Toyota in the middle lane.
Then it happens a blinged up rude BMW 3 series driven by who you expect decides to wheel spin out of the right hand queue to the middle lane to drive and cut in at the lights, the Toyota brakes but will never stop in time and swerves into the inside lane where yours truly was, I glance right and see the Toyota heading straight into the side on me and begin evasive action, I swerve left and grab as much throttle as I can but the toyota bonnet is within inches of my leg.
Then the wall of torque kicks in and the K1200s starts to edge me away, as it does I received a nudge on the pannier which wobbled the bike.
In a second I was 30 metre away and sat up at 40 mph and throttled off, sat up, adrenaline surging to my surprise both cars braked and crawled at 5 mph behind me refusing to catch up. It was just aswell for them because I would have lost the plot.
No damage to bike or rider but it was oh so close
It also highlights the fact that often, real-world shove is as useful as ultimate bhp on a graph.
Highly-strung engines, be them in a car car or bike, might be good for theoretical performance figures at the bar, or on the track, but are often of little use on the road when the only real go is tucked away above N,000,000,000 rpm.
Highly-strung engines, be them in a car car or bike, might be good for theoretical performance figures at the bar, or on the track, but are often of little use on the road when the only real go is tucked away above N,000,000,000 rpm.
I'm glad to hear that it all ended OK. You really have to have your wits about you all the time and having the option of accelerating out of trouble is a big help.
Beemer-5 said:
It also highlights the fact that often, real-world shove is as useful as ultimate bhp on a graph.
Highly-strung engines, be them in a car car or bike, might be good for theoretical performance figures at the bar, or on the track, but are often of little use on the road when the only real go is tucked away above N,000,000,000 rpm.
In the real world, on real roads, torque rules!Highly-strung engines, be them in a car car or bike, might be good for theoretical performance figures at the bar, or on the track, but are often of little use on the road when the only real go is tucked away above N,000,000,000 rpm.
Schmeeky said:
Wow! Very lucky! But Observation, reactions and having the right bike made a difference as well.. Give me a big, torquey engine any day over a revvy screamer; it's one of the reasons I love my Bandit 1200 so much.
I hope it is naked 
Naked Bandit 1200's are cool - FACT!
smack said:
Schmeeky said:
Wow! Very lucky! But Observation, reactions and having the right bike made a difference as well.. Give me a big, torquey engine any day over a revvy screamer; it's one of the reasons I love my Bandit 1200 so much.
I hope it is naked Naked Bandit 1200's are cool - FACT!
The fairing is pretty good and keeps most of the wind off, and IMHO makes it look a bit like the old Suzuki Katana
smack said:
Schmeeky said:
Wow! Very lucky! But Observation, reactions and having the right bike made a difference as well.. Give me a big, torquey engine any day over a revvy screamer; it's one of the reasons I love my Bandit 1200 so much.
I hope it is naked Naked Bandit 1200's are cool - FACT!
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