You get loads of warning with pegs and exhausts. They make an obvious noise for the rider and kick the bike back, rather than making you slide out. You've got to be pretty dense to manage to pivot off of a peg. Plus road bikes pegs generally fold up anyway. This dude just had it all wrong.
There's no riding like a beginning in that situation. It would've happened with any bike because of the footpeg He should've thought about that first before going for such a turn
List of things to do before you ride corners at the limit. Ensure your pegs and exhaust are high enough for a significant lean angle. Check your tire pressures and use tires that are designed for BOTH the track & street riding. Learn to limit the lean angle of the bike by moving your head over the inside bar. Never steer always counter steer and use lean to corner, never grab the brake after you've entered the corner, never chop the throttle, always look way down the road through the turn. Do all of this consistently and practice at the track and you'll probably never low side if you don't go right to the edge of traction. Also know your conditions, road temp, gravel, humidity and dampness of road surface.
As far as a crash this is the best possible outcome. You lay it down and slide, no oncoming cars, bike doesn’t flip and goes into a leaf pile for a somewhat soft landing, and you don’t do any flips and just slide. Best way to crash 10/10
Looks like he went on the gas a bit early? Foot pegs can scrape, but if he’s already too fast for the corner that’s not a good thing. Real tidy looking lowside though! 👍🏻
Did he scrape his leg? I've never seen an actual road rash. I thought the pants had maybe an aramid/Kevlar layer under the blue fabric, since there was no blood showing. Or does the blood only show after a couple of seconds?
@@MegaMrDanne actually happen to be a former EMT. This dude just straight up got super lucky. No road rash or actually really anything at all in the tear by his knee. If you've never seen road rash before, imagine someone sanding off all your skin with extra heavy grit sand paper and a power sander and then throwing dirt and rocks on it, then pressing it in hard enough to basically stab the rocks in. That's road rash and it even makes the super tough guys cry lmao.
@@G58 Because this is RU-vid, where people don't know jack shit and talk out of their ass like they are 1000000% right. This guy doesn't know how to ride, horrible form.
I hope you’re not talking about counter weight leaning off the bike. Because thats actually just going to lead to another crash. You lean WITH the bike, go take an advanced riders safety they teach you that..
I seen a guy on a Harley it had to be 90°full sun as he was making a right turn the bike slid from underneath him. But that was blacktop you know how the oil comes to the surface on it.
@@djocharablaikan8601 Don't tell people that nonsense. ALWAYS wear your gear unless you just dont give a shit about your skin and punctures. Stop the cap.
@@veritas17 Everyone, don't listen to this i diot. ALWAYS WEAR YOUR GEAR. It'll stop a lot of things happening to you when you fall, like stopping your hands, arms, legs, skin, and even your balls from getting ripped off. Dress for the slide, not the ride.
yeah the FZ is very peg scrape happy and this was like half way down the tail of the dragon. you can see him just scrape pegs in every corner and this corner he just scraped a little to much. you can scrape pegs but there comes a point where the peg will bend up and then your foot blockingit from going any higher creates a leverage point to lift the bike a little and that's enough to slip the rear.
That corner is very upsetting, it changes camber as assent angle very quickly. Even in cars it upsets the rear. Last time I drove it I was in my s13 and every single time I hit that spot the rear would want to come around.
If you listen closely you can hear the downshift right before the slide, that much lean angle+the forward shift of the weight= loss of traction( in this case rear)
Or a handful of throttle. Or the peg... too hard to see 'cause they slo-mo'd the wrong part. I doubt locking the back wheel momentarily would tuck the rear anyhoo, even at that angle.
It wasn't no he had to lay me down, if you look close enough in a video the swing arm slide may contact with the pavement while he was leaning which then took the weight off the rear tire and caused the rear end to slide out from behind him if you look at the pavement you'll see the mark.
I’m a new rider this is the most terrifying thing to me. I can control the bike well everywhere except a low leaning turn I’m always scared. I turn way better to the right than the left too. I hate left leaning curves
Take it easy learn slowly. No one goes fast out of the box. If you can find a paved area you can safely do figure eights. Slowly first gradually building up speed in your own time but always in your comfort zone. Or find a advance rider coarse.
There are two types of bikers, those that have wrecked and those that are going to. Myself, being of both groups, word of advice.... Trade your little crouch rocket in for a nice cruiser and don't do dumb shit...lol
I hate to see it happen. This I why I get annoyed with all of the videos of guys riding aggressively and not wearing any gear, other than a helmet and gloves (because it looks so cool, right?).
Yeah, I saw that, too, and it made me wince. At least he had gloves, look at the amount of pavement contact his hands had... This is why I'm part of the ATGATT crowd.
@@irvan36mm normal jeans open up instantaneously. Technical jeans have abrasion time limit: 3second max. Trilobite brand is among the most protective. The bike at least went on the leaves
Traffic coming the other way is why I couldn't move to the inside of a curve to avoid a patch of gravel deposited by farm equipment coming off a gravel road. Was not an insignificant amount or distance from the road, either, it was all over down the road and a death trap for bikes and even some cars as it comes out of nowhere with no warning of a hidden drive on a blind corner. Anyways, I think I set a record for world's faster log roll after I went down and stopped a few feet short of a telephone pole. This dude impresses me at the amount of control and awareness he has in his slide, whereas physics, inertia, and a ditch made me their b!t¢h.
If you’re going to ride fast on a twisty road, dress up for it, and don’t wear what you’d wear to buy milk at the shops at the end of the road. I once fell off on some oil at speed on my way to work in my office clothes. No major harm done but I didn’t make that mistake ever again. Suit trousers and office shoes are rubbish in a crash. I was picked off the deck by a commuting couple in full leathers. I’d left mine in the wardrobe. Doh!
The black mark from the front tyre starts about 3feet before the foot peg mark and if keep focused on either of his hands you will see the handlebars turn then the black line appears !! The first thing to scrape on an FZ1 that era is the foot peg then if there is any slight dip or unevenness in the surface the next thing to scrape is the centre stand more so on the RHS before the LHS, this could explain the puff of what looked like dust moments before the h/bars turn & the black line starts to appear I have owned 3 of these early FZ1s 2001-2005
@@veryfriendly111 rear lost traction. moments before the rear slipped you can see sparks in the back and dust kicking up. I would say the theory of matilda_561 is right. Foot peg scraped, then the center stand or whatever else hits the pavement and bike lifted itself up enough that rear didn't make proper contact anymore.
Watch how fast he lets go of his right arm and notice the front tire skid mark. He used his front brakes and once it locked up and got squirrely he bailed rather than just letting the bike correct itself and straightening back up. I might be wrong but thats what I think happened. Awesome Post and really cool to try and diagnose the error with the slow mo going on it was cool to watch.
I agree I'm not a road Rossi but getting on the binders will lighten the back tire loss of traction and wipe out. I don't know if that year /model has break light switch on front or not. But he realized he was drifting out to the yellow
He added throttle at the turn apex when he was at maximum lean instead of as he was standing the bike up coming out of the apex. I think he lost his rear tire first. There are other factors, but that is probably what he actually did to push it over the edge.
The rear tire started to slide before the foot peg hit, agreed to all the other comments here too. 1st, bad bp, and 2nd whisky throttle on the edge, but poor guy nothing worse!
The good old Fazer 1000, awesome bike. Mine did this to me often or with Dunslip tyres. Ground clearance and the OE crash bobbins made that tip over even more exciting.... Jacking the back up from stock lessened the unscheduled dismount, albeit.
If you pause the video enough you can catch a scratch In the pavement from it looks like the rear Footpeg Then the bike leans more and lifts the tire off the pavement, And uses rear foot pag as pivot point to lift the rear tire.And spinds out
Definitely scraped on the ground for quite a bit with a peg or something. It’s really important to get your but off the seat a little bit also put your chest and head where that mirror is at. It lets you counter steer the bike and significantly reduces the amount of lean angle the bike has to go through.
I see what the one guy is saying on the front brake, but at the same time I also see sparks off the peg. Just can't tell if it's the cause, the peg is the cause, or all of the above.
Footpeg scraped and unloaded the rear tire. I would suggest adjustable rear set, but there may be other items that need attention. Glad no one was hurt. ✌️
He wasn’t leaning into that right arm. You can see his back alignment is close to center on that bike and not leaning to the right of that tank either. If he had it would have pushed the bike a bit more upright not causing the peg to catch still taking that corner as fast as he was he would’ve been 100% fine.
In racing that’s called at low-side. “Most likely” the reason he went down is because he realized he was in the corner too hot and grabbed a handful of front brake.
@@Bingbong54not the peg which is on a swivel anyway. You can hear him twist on throttle before his rear tire loses traction. Too much throttle too quickly.
Instead of moving own body (butt, torso and head) off the bike towards the corner, he was only leaning the bike, with his body almost upright. I think it was well explained in the "twist of the wrist".
Yea he needed to have more body lean which would have allowed for less lean angle of his bike while still taking this turn at this speed. His lean angle was too sharp and his legs or something scraped, slipping the rear wheel out.
I thought it was all the small rocks too. I was always pretty sketched out of the Twisties around the smoky range for that reason. Too many bends covered in small rocks even if your pegs are legit this could happen easily.
I have seen some ugly, nasty motorbike mishaps during my active duty days in the military medical profession. It didn't matter how much protective equipment the riders rigged on themselves, the broken bones and road rash still occurred. Reason why it is suicidal to ride with just a bandana as a head cover. Edit: He was lucky there were no other vehicles coming from the opposite direction.
As some one who actually rides and is also a medical professional you are incorrect. Riding gear does make a lot of difference in such crashes. If he was wearing leathers instead of regular jeans, chances of resulting road rash would be significantly lowered, his knees would be protected as well. If he was wearing proper racing shoes, his ankle and foot would be protected as well, as those shoes are stiff especially around the ankles thus resisting any twisting movements, again saving his ankles from fracturing. From the looks of it, this moron isn't even wearing a proper riding jacket, so overall he will be having a lot of road rash, lucky for him. Proper riding gear does make a huge amount of difference, eo such a blanket statement doesn't do justice.
Yeah definitely not true, even more these days, we have literally airbags for both the upper and lower body nowadays. Just look at motogp riders taking nasty slides at crazy speed and getting away with almost no injury
A guy at the dealer ship .got 2 new tires put on his sport bike .as he was leaving leaning it to the left and right .slid in to a row of harleys .guys weren't happy .dont think he relized you have to break them in ..lol o'well
@@Steven-bp8jn yea ofcourse its like that. New Tires alway needs to be handled carefully. But in the Clip, the biker just dragged the bike to hard. Thats why he fell.
My guess would be trying to lean too far, looks like the foot peg grounded and caused the back tire to start to slide. The limitations of the motorcycle are the limitations of the rider.
Intentional low side crash for the video. They piled up a ton of leaves for the bike to slide into. A great demonstration of how a low side crash happens 👏
