Well, as most of you know myself and 3 others from this area went down to south texas to ride the 3 sisters/holy trinity section of twisties and let me tell you it was truly an awesome ride if you get the chance to ride it i'd highly recommend that you ride it. Anyways, i'd rate it at probably a medium skill level area most of the turns rated for 45mph you can take at 80+ not to say that we did that
of course the sections had all types of curves the long sweepers and the really tight 1st gear ones as well. However as I mentioned before about the 45 mph curves...we were nearing the end of the ride less than 30 miles from the hotel we were staying in so we turned it up a bit trying to get back as we had ridden 250+ miles and were basically ready to just get off the bikes for the day.This was the running order, gixxer1k,busa,busame,honda 954 and that's the way it had been allday and everything was fine....Until the guy on the 954 started riding pretty aggressive and decided that myself and my friend on the busas weren't fast enuff for him and he wanted to see if he could hang with the guy on the gixxer. I had only ridden with the guy on the 954 one time before and he was a towards the back of the pack type rider, the guy on the gixxer is active at trackdays and a really good rider, so, he passes my and the other guy on the busa and the guy on the gixxer starts really turning it up they are quite a way ahead of us as we were just kinda rolling along not really pushing anything...Well then I see a 45mph right hander coming up so I position myself near the yellow linr for my entrance into the corner, however this corner was different from all the other 45mph corners we had been on all day and I didn't realize it but I was on the crown of the road that would eventually push me off the left side of the road becaus this was a decreasing radius turn which means for the layman it gets sharper as you go thru it. So, now the drama begins, I start to lean the bike and it just doesn't feel right so I increase my lean expecting to head towards the white line to my right, however to my dismay I start sliding towards the white line on the left I realize there is no way I am going to be able to prevent leaving the asphalt.So I start coaching myself to remain calm and don't make any sudden moves...So, I leave the road surface and enter the tall grass that is also got alot of loose gravel in it, when I first entered it I was mentally preparing for the crash looking for a place to jump off if the bike started to go but it remained extremely stable considering the terrain.I look up the road a bit and see my friend on his busa on the right side of the road watching my from a stop and I tell myself then you have got to make it through this, right about that time something catches my vison to the left all I can recal seeing is a red blur cuz of course I didn't take the time to turn my head and look. Well, anyways I get her back up on the road surface and pull up to my friend who is smiling at me and glad to see im ok, then the guy on the gixxer comes back down the road cuz my friend and the guy on the gixxer were using collet communicators and he had told him I was off the road, then the guy on the gixxer asks what happened to the guy on the 954. I recall that red blur I rode by and said he may have lost it in that turn back there, we went back and sure enuff there he was laying motionless his bike tangled in a bobwire fence.he was wearing full gear but was unconsious when we ran up to him but when we started calling his name and stuff he woke up. He was carted off to the hospital where they ran catscans and all kinds of tests and he was very lucky no injuries at all but his brain did swell a bit there was a huge chunk missing from the helmet that no doubt saved his life.
Lessons learned from this..
Never assume that all speed rated corners are the same as the others you have seen.
Never go beyond your limits.
Always wear your gear, which I always did anyway this just enforces it.
Don't watch the rider in front of you, watch the road..This is what caused my almost wreck. If I had been looking at the corner I would've been alot better prepared for it.
And finally Guardian angles DO exsist and mine was working overtime that day.
Thanks all for reading, I hope maybe this will help others whe they are out riding,
Jay
Lessons learned from this..
Never assume that all speed rated corners are the same as the others you have seen.
Never go beyond your limits.
Always wear your gear, which I always did anyway this just enforces it.
Don't watch the rider in front of you, watch the road..This is what caused my almost wreck. If I had been looking at the corner I would've been alot better prepared for it.
And finally Guardian angles DO exsist and mine was working overtime that day.
Thanks all for reading, I hope maybe this will help others whe they are out riding,
Jay
