yea i fell off my bike today after coming home from work. I was trying to be very careful because it was wet, it wasn’t even raining at all. Ive been out plenty of times in wet. It was a right turn into a road and i stopped waited for traffic to clear and made a normal right turn but for some reason the tires lost grip and i fell on the side of my ass. It feels very weird like you are watching someone crash their bike but then you realize its you and your like “oh **** im on the floor”.
I just cant figure out why I fell. I cant have been going more than around 15mph because my jeans are not damaged at all and my bikes working. For the moment I blame the crappy road and the crappy tires on my ybr 125 which I think ill get replaced for my confidence.
Sounds like the back tyre slipped while doing your turn. Were you revving much?
Same thing happened to me when I first started riding. Just got a new set of tyres. Was pulling out of the bike shop entrance to turn left, gave it lots of throttle (750cc bike) and I ended up on my left side and skidded around 180 degrees. That was 12 years ago and I still have problems with my left knee as a result of that incident to this day.
Thats probaly the most possible because the bike had turned around and was facing the other way that i was going. but still i think the bike lost grip too easily im going to check out the road
Unlucky mate, glad you are OK… You dont have to crash for the first time ever again would be good to try and decompose the fall, but not over analyse it if you can’t get anywhere. Check for manhole covers and oil/diesel on the road even white lines if you might have crossed them, all very slippy in this wet.
It will take a while to get your confidence back, but it will come… dont worry
Always very slippy if there has been a dry spell and then a sudden downpour, be careful out there peeps!
Firstly, unlucky about your first crash and I’m glad you’re ok.
This is good advice…Sometimes you can take a positive from a negative experience, but best to take what you can from what happened then move on.
This experience at least showed you that conditions on the road (be they physical surface or movement of traffic) changes from one moment to the next, and why we all have to ride anticipating what’s out there.
Stick on a decent set of tyres also…Yeah yeah…Tyres…They’re all black and round…
But the ones that come on a 125 will be made to a really tight budget and it’s likely you can have some that are much much better by buying an aftermarket set.
Check out what Michelin or Bridgestone have available for small wheel rim sizes, or better yet, speak to your local tyre stockist.
As mentioned before, there could have been many factors that contributed to your off…at least you’re OK though hun.
Get back on as soon as possible otherwise the longer you leave it the harder it’ll be to get on.
I always found the tyres on my 125 felt really slippy in the wet (guess I should have changed them), hated getting caught in the rain! Have found it so much better now I ride a 650 with decent tyresCarol (Mrs GSXR)
Fallen of my bike twice now, nothing serious, both times at slow speeds on corners with no one around to “nelson muntz” me. Both times i too noticed it all went a bit slo-mo, also there was a calm sense of acceptance both times. hello asphalt, fancy meeting you here.