Target fixation is BAD....VERY bad

[tommymac]

Originally Posted by TIGGER

Ah the ever present gravel excuse. My favorite!

Maybe I will use that as my excuse for crashing on the skyway.

yes there was a lot of gravel that caused my crash

better than saying I messed up

Tom

[Amber Lamps]

Originally Posted by tommymac

Maybe I will use that as my excuse for crashing on the skyway.

yes there was a lot of gravel that caused my crash

better than saying I messed up

Tom

Yea, that will work! I'm totally cursing myself but I can't tell you how many times I've heard someone use that excuse for a single vehicle crash. Although in your case it was more of a ran into a gravel lot and used the front brake situation, was it not? Anyway, I've led rides where 10 bikes will go through a corner and the 11th bike crashes and blames it on gravel.

[tommymac]

Originally Posted by TIGGER

Yea, that will work! I'm totally cursing myself but I can't tell you how many times I've heard someone use that excuse for a single vehicle crash. Although in your case it was more of a ran into a gravel lot and used the front brake situation, was it not? Anyway, I've led rides where 10 bikes will go through a corner and the 11th bike crashes and blames it on gravel.

that was MMFJM, I fixated on the skyway ran across the road onto some grass and locked up the front on the grass. But will still blame gravel in the road

Tom

[Mr Lefty]

Originally Posted by tommymac

Maybe I will use that as my excuse for crashing on the skyway.

yes there was a lot of gravel that caused my crash

better than saying I messed up

Tom

ahh me too... lots of gravel in the intersection... that's why I looped it.. shit...

maybe I should go the other way with it...

so I was on a gravel road... and went to leave the light but unbeknown to me... my tire was setting on a patch of pavement... and I hooked up and looped it...

it had nothing to do with pushing my limits and riding too many miles in too few days... but a rogue patch of asphault on a gravel road...


yeah I like that... THANKS!

[Particle Man]

gravel my ass

since they're ok (thankfully) one of 3 things will happen:

1 - They'll sell the bike because they're now scared of it
2 - They'll actually learn something
3 - They won't learn anything, crash again, and there'll be cheap VTX parts on e-bay in the next 18 months or so.