Lesson learned - Okay never ever.....

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Old Nov 23, 2004 | 10:27 AM
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Lesson learned - Okay never ever.....

Hit your kill switch in the middle of practicing a standup no hander......lol..
Wow what a ride ! Everything was good until I had to put my hands back on the bars, didnt realise the bars had moved a bit and BAM hit the old kill switch..

I HAVE NEVER HAD MY HEAD SMACK THE GROUND THAT HARD B4...THANK GOD I HAD MY HELMET ON...

Wear your lid guys please....

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Old Nov 23, 2004 | 10:48 AM
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Re: Lesson learned - Okay never ever.....

suxs man... heh you will learn
Old Nov 23, 2004 | 10:51 AM
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Re: Lesson learned - Okay never ever.....

ill always keep my lid on stuntin,hey smurfkilla,someone on here told me you learned 12's without brake control? i dont have much brake control but im learning,im always wanting to do 12's and slower wheelies,ive been practicing clutching it from a dead stop..but its been raining here so i havent had much practice
Old Nov 23, 2004 | 11:39 AM
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Re: Lesson learned - Okay never ever.....

Well that may have been the way I started out but after crashing awhole lot I said ***** the scraping and worked on brake control and keepin em slow..That was the best move I made this summer cuz when I came back to scraping the shiat was easy..

So learn that clutch, learn to catch it with the back brake, get to where you can keep it on the idle and once you can do that 12vz, parkin em..etc etc is very easy..

Easier said than done but well worth the effort if you are looking to improve in this game..

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Originally Posted by doodle13245
ill always keep my lid on stuntin,hey smurfkilla,someone on here told me you learned 12's without brake control? i dont have much brake control but im learning,im always wanting to do 12's and slower wheelies,ive been practicing clutching it from a dead stop..but its been raining here so i havent had much practice
Old Nov 23, 2004 | 12:39 PM
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Re: Lesson learned - Okay never ever.....

so does that convince you to pin you kill switch yet?
Old Nov 23, 2004 | 01:19 PM
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Re: Lesson learned - Okay never ever.....

haha.. gotta hate that. I have debated putting a pin in my kill switch but that kill switch really comes in handy in certain oh **** moments... you can really minimize damage to yourself and the bike with the killswitch sometimes.
Old Nov 23, 2004 | 01:49 PM
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Re: Lesson learned - Okay never ever.....

Originally Posted by 02redr1
so does that convince you to pin you kill switch yet?
Gotta have the killswitch to make it backfire and scare the **** out of everyone!
Old Nov 23, 2004 | 02:29 PM
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Re: Lesson learned - Okay never ever.....

Wait till you hit it with your foot.
Old Nov 23, 2004 | 03:02 PM
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Re: Lesson learned - Okay never ever.....

smurfkilla,i wanting to get a 12 o clock bar with my xmas money coming up,should i buy the bar and install it because even if i dont learn to 12s yet i want it there just in case i go back clutching it too hard and not having much brake control,i know it can toss me off if i hit the bar sideways but i think id rather have it there than not there,because if you hit the tail on my bike its at like 1 o clock,and it would prolly loop backwards on me.
Old Nov 23, 2004 | 03:21 PM
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Re: Lesson learned - Okay never ever.....

Originally Posted by f4rider
Gotta have the killswitch to make it backfire and scare the **** out of everyone!

:YEAH hahah i love that, esspeaically in underpasses
Old Nov 23, 2004 | 03:25 PM
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Re: Lesson learned - Okay never ever.....

haha mine does it sometimes when im just starting it then i get to call it a "back firing piece of ****"
Old Nov 23, 2004 | 03:53 PM
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Re: Lesson learned - Okay never ever.....

i always hit the kill switch as a safety precaution.....when the bike hits the ground on 2 wheels, if it's on run it might start up and ride away on its own......only when i feel as if it might get ugly is when ill use the kill switch...
Old Nov 23, 2004 | 08:10 PM
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Re: Lesson learned - Okay never ever.....

I hit the asphalt really hard when my bike slipped on an oil patch. Helmet smack so hard and fast. Big gash on helmet. Lucky i had it on also.
Old Nov 23, 2004 | 10:46 PM
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Re: Lesson learned - Okay never ever.....

the kill swtich is for turning your bike off doing long coasters haha
Old Nov 23, 2004 | 11:48 PM
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Re: Lesson learned - Okay never ever.....

damn good thing you had your helmet bro.
Old Nov 24, 2004 | 01:11 AM
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Re: Lesson learned - Okay never ever.....

that sucks at least your ok
Old Nov 24, 2004 | 01:20 AM
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Re: Lesson learned - Okay never ever.....

Samn thing happened to a friend and he had his helmet on too, his helmet got a chip in it right infront of his mouth from where it hit his Scott's dampener.

Wouldn't be a bad idea to take a dremel or something else and sand/grind down the kill switch so that it is flush with the area that surrounds it. You can still use it to turn off the bike but you have to actually push it in like a button so there will be much less chance of killing the motor from just brushing across it again.
Old Nov 24, 2004 | 03:16 PM
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Re: Lesson learned - Okay never ever.....

This might be a stupid question, but how do you make your bike backfire? On purpose of course just to scare people.
Old Nov 24, 2004 | 10:38 PM
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Re: Lesson learned - Okay never ever.....

been there done that. However on the flip side, I always keep mine activated for reasons like the other day at practice. I was doing faster combos in second, went to Ballerina (what we call it, right foot on left peg with left foot over the windscreen), when bam, I clicked it out of gear with my foot on accident. It threw me off the side at 60 mph. I already crashed once like that a couple of years ago, so this time I just pulled in my clutch and hit the kill switch. It took me a good 500 ft to stop (my feet were hott, lol).

Just always be careful not to hit it with your feet too.
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