Ok, having never come off, (touch wood), i was wondering yesterday before going to sleep, whether if the situation required me to bin the bike, whether i actually would or id try to save both me and the bike, and my final opinion was that, i would hesitate binning it. Im sure, i should just bin the bike as my life is obviously more valuable, but i cant imagine myself just letting her die.
what are your opinions?.
That’s assuming you have the time to make the decision in the first place. Experience has taught me that you never really have the time to make the decision yourself…
I didn’t have time to decide when I had my accident, it was more a case of oh sh*t, crash, bang, wallop 
no i agree on that, but what about if you had one or two seconds to make your decision?
In a low speed lowside crash I had, I decided to hold onto the bike as it slid to slow it down quicker and save some bodywork.
Didn’t really save much and hurt my leg in the process so I think I’ll be letting go from now on 
There is a situation i try to be prepared for. This is probably an occasion where youll have a few seconds to react and may well be the case that youre travelling quite quickly.
The scenario would be to find your path obstructed by a vehicle or other solid object. The worst thing to do here(and its easily done when you panic) is grab a large handfull of brake abruptly, lose the front end and slide into the obstruction. Id try to scrub off as much speed as possible let the bike take the impact and i`ll take the scenic route over the top.
Whatever the situation, think that instinct/self preservation will take over. then after the event you’ll always think you could have avoided/handled it better.
Having said that, a lifetime of experience will always help assess the dangers quicker to some extent.
Whatever tho, you should always ride relaxed.
The past 2 “near misses” i have had iv held on to the bike and tryed everything to avoid hitting the oncoming mini cab/black cab (yes both times it was a cab).
Both times i tought OMG in going to hit that for shure… there is no way out of this…
But both times iv managed to avoid it by letting of the brakes a bit and sterring the bike I.E not freezing and clapping the anchors on… as soon as you do that your brain cant think about anything else, like turning the bike.
Been totaly amazed im still in one bit… 
Its very easy to “throw in the towel” early and look for a soft ladding spot and a lot of people crash of the own volition like this.
At the end of the day though there a some situations you aint gonna get out of…
too quick for me…b4 i knew it…my auto pilot tripped on and i had already laid the bike down …
just didnt want to hit that car…the bike can be fixed…being paralized…well…can bear to think of it…
smiled.
I don’t think you know what you’ll do until you actually crash.
When I lowsided my bike I pushed away from her. In hindsight, perhaps the right course of action would have been to hang on, as the bike would have dragged me clear of oncoming traffic. As it was I was really lucky there wasn’t an oncoming car.
All I do know is that without crash bungs I could have had 175kg of bike landing on my leg. I can’t understand anyone who would ride without.
Take care, I hope you never have to make that decision.
WHEN I CAME OFF
THE CAR PULLED IN FRONT OF ME
I HAD A HAND FULL OF BRAKE.
WENT INTO AN ENDO BUT STILL TRIED STEERING IT ROUND THE CAR (OBVIOUSLY HARDER ON ONE WHEEL!!)
LOST FRONT END BIKE HIT BACK WHEEL OF CAR
F**K KNOWS HOW I DIDNT HIT THE CAR
neither do i…mind you the car wouldnt have survived lol
ahhhh ya cheeky fooker what ya trying to say ya coont!!!
quiten down big fella…cup of tea for the big fella…
“whether if the situation required me to bin the bike”
I cant see a scenario where you would [correctly] do this . . .if you are going fast along a road and your path is suddenly blocked , 100% of your concentration should be on braking as hard as possible . . . if you think by binning the bike you are having a softer crash, surely you are wrong ? although my body has a marginally larger contact patch than my 120/70/17 tyre, it does not have as much braking power, so you are better staying on as B says and planning a a decent low speed tripe salako
i binned the k6 becouse i would rather have the bike mashed than a chance of brain damage or being paralized…or even both!!!…
sorry…would sooner take my chances with a controlled jumping off than staying on,then an uncontrolled jumping off…
smiled.
