First Dragon death of the year

[dReWpY]

was trying to tell a cliff notes version of this

so after riding all day with jeeps, nighthawk, my gramps and my uncle we soon ran out of sun light and were about 3 hours from our camp site and on the other side of the gap, two of our riders decided to call it a night and stay the small town we had stopped for gas in, two decided screw that we can ride home, and jeeps was real close to home and just said his peace and left, night hawk and i started on our way to the campground and i cant remember if we got lost or what the deal was but it took longer then i remembered to get back, we pulled into the CRoT and took pictures, counted our blessing a few hail marrys later we got on our way up the dragon, this was my first night run, and what a night run it was, we would hit patches of fog that made even seeing the next 15 feet infront of you impossible, at one point i had pulled ahead of NH and didnt relize it until i was a good distance ahead, i stopped and pulled off and waited... and waited... and no lights, no sound for a good 5 mins, all of a sudden i could hear the bmw, no lights the fog was so thick, he was coming around the corner i got back in saddle and coninued threw the dragon with only limited visibility at best and pea soup at worst, lesson learned, never mess with a smoky dragon, in hindsite, it was fun and a story to tell but prolly woulda been safer to sleep at CRoT in the lot then play on the dragon

[Smittie61984]

Someone said it looked like a 7" wide 230ft black mark(Thats roughly 76 yards or 24 yards short of a football field). Just curious but how wide of a tire would you need for a 7" wide contact patch skid.

Someoen talked to the guys father and brother/cousin/etc. Said he got the Hayabusa for his 21st for a suprise from his father. Apparently his father and son did everything together. I'm guessing since they rode ATVs(As mentioned before) that the father felt he'd be fine on a Hayabusa or the bike his son drooled over.

But yeah I'm fairly inexperienced(Been riding since last July) and almost nailed a deer the other night. I was on the FRONT brake so hard I was doing an endo higher than I've ever done before. Never did I think "Rear Brake". I made a mistake by not shifting my weight back and pushing down on the pegs but the deer bolted out so fast I didn't have much time to react. I may have brushed the deers tail when going by.

And after a month of two or riding on my old SecaII I almost hit a deer and was on the brakes very hard. That time I did both front and rear brakes and never jabbed on them.\

Still a sad case but needs to be evaluated so others can learn from it.

[dReWpY]

hearing about the rear brake makes alot more sense
being from the atv racing background we almost always use the rear to "steer" the bike, its first nature, makes a hellva 'lot more sense now, this is why its nice to come from the dirt, but its a whole 'nother beast

[Mr Lefty]

still even if he got on the rear brake that hard... locking it up... 74 fucking yards?! didn't think there was a stretch in the gap long enough to build up enough steem to lock up the rear for 74 fucking yards and still leave enough un spent energy to kill ya

[dReWpY]

its not teh sudden stop that got this one i think, it was the long drop that followed

[Mr Lefty]

Originally Posted by drewpy

its not teh sudden stop that got this one i think, it was the long drop that followed

well as my uncle always said... it's not the fall that kills ya... it's the sudden stop at the end