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Old 06-18-2009, 12:33 AM   #1
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I just got off the phone with my brothers friend who just bought and subsequently wrecked his bike today (he owned it for less than 6 hours). It was a rebel 250 so not really a big loss, and it only cost him a few hundred. He also has never ridden a bike before today. Anyway he calls me up and says that the bike is broke and it steers wrong. So I ask what he means and he says that he tried to turn left and the bike went off into a field on the right. He said he's alright but the bike broke (I'm guessing the frame cracked?) in half.

I told him to look up coutersteering.
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Old 06-18-2009, 12:42 AM   #2
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wow. umm, this sounds like someone who DOES NOT belong on a motorcycle...
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Old 06-18-2009, 12:42 AM   #3
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Id also suggest looking through the turn or target fixation (to not do it next time).
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Old 06-18-2009, 01:22 AM   #4
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Tell him to leave said bike where it crashed, be glad he can walk away and then do so. And that it would be best if he never revisited the idea of owning a MC ever ever again!
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Old 06-18-2009, 01:31 AM   #5
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Tell him to leave said bike where it crashed, be glad he can walk away and then do so. And that it would be best if he never revisited the idea of owning a MC ever ever again!
Yea, if you can't handle the awesome power and razor sharp handling of a Rebel 250, maybe you should take up quilting or something...
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Old 06-18-2009, 01:36 AM   #6
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From talking to him it seemed like he got a quick parking lot lesson and drove home, the first turn he encountered over 10mph he just tried to turn the bars into the turn, countersteering away from it. At least he was smart enough to gear up
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Old 06-18-2009, 08:27 AM   #7
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A friend of mine called night before last to tell me his brother just bought his first bike, a Hayabusa. My bud has a ZZR1200 and he said the Busa was OMFG!!
I hope his brother remains OK.
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Old 06-20-2009, 02:50 PM   #8
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MAybe tell about the MSF course where he learn about countersteer??????
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Old 06-20-2009, 04:26 PM   #9
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Sounds like a good time to take someone young and inexperienced and help them out to me. He's asking so that's a good start. We all had to learn somewhere...
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Old 06-20-2009, 07:59 PM   #10
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Actually I am thinking it might be the bikes fault. I took a look at it today, and he broke an engine mount, but the forks were also loose in the triple trees, the head bearings were prolly missing because there was a good amount of play, and the front wheel sorta moved freely. The guy that sold him the bike told him it was normal, and helped the bike turn.
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