Ya, it’s a rare curmudgeon who’d wield an old POS and also carry a million $ in liability coverage. Un(der)insured Motorist coverage for the win. And a Law Tiger.
I wonder if the biker’s uninsured motorist coverage will be denied using the FXmapti defense?
Lock the back wheel, juke the bars a little, and let the whole thing slide from under you.
Back in the day of drum brakes it was a more needed skill than it is today. Some of us would actually practice on dirt short of dumping it all the way; if we could find some serious rat bike, we would actually practice it all the way to the ground. As for why – mostly for those times when you know even perfect braking isn’t going to shed enough speed to bring you to a stop before impact. Rather than shoot head first over the hood, or into something solid, get the bike from under you and roll off to the side.
In over 500k miles on two wheels I’ve had to do it twice but both of those times it saved me from a lot of more serious injury. In the case I mentioned, even if my braking had been perfect, I would have still hit him at 30mph and gone flying and I know I can roll better than I can land face first.
Round here the insurance company must pay then recover from their client.
I am not a motorcyclist, but that move was just unacceptable. That jackass and people like him deserve this if they do stuff like that. Motorcyclists should just use their head!
even if it’s a criminal act, rather than just negligence?
As I understand it…yes.
For medical cost only
This is probably a dumb question, but…will they be able to show the video at the trial?
Yes.
I was under the impression that you can’t insure against your own criminal acts, but there must be some variation.
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[/QUOTE] Thanks.Rider locked his front brakes and went down. Seems very unintentional.
Anyway, with a little less pressure on the front brake and by using the progressive braking technique taught by MSF, he wouldn’t have locked up and he would have stopped in plenty of time.
No scratches on bike, none on him. And no decapitation either.
Seems to me that about 9 out of 10 riders claiming that they “had” to lay the bike down did so unintentionally via a mistake in braking.
I’m convinced that there are only extremely rare situations where it would make sense to “lay a bike down” because you’re just basically giving up way too early, and guaranteeing that you and your bike are gonna get trashed.
And rubber stops you much faster than metal skidding on pavement.
I’d be glad to discuss more, in another thread if people are interested, so as not to hijack this thread any further.
Yeah, this. Laying down a bike is yet another piece of biker-lore that has basically no factual evidence behind it.
Well, the potential difference in injuries between a high side and a low side is probably pretty well established, even if laying it down isn’t, and I concur that modern brakes are different.