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[Hunter]

got a bit feisty with the throttle the other dayon the way to work,  and a small straight i usually cruise down suddenly bacame a hell ofa lot smaller.. unlike the car that came around the corner a tad too close to my side of the road...

had what i like to call a 'brace for impact' moment... you get all tensed up and wait for the BANG!!...yet nothing happens...

i was still shaking with adrenalin couple of hours later...

 

so... any of ye have a close call lately?



 

[zxyogi]

Suffocation whilst doing my first top speed run at Brunters.....

[Hunter]

funny you should say that...

the fog on the way to work this morning was unreal... the droplets were so big they were like rain.. hanging in the air.. well trippy first thing in the morning...

couldnt see more than 50 feet in front... and had to ride to work with my visor up...

odd thing was, i found it really hard to get my breath... not sure if it was the supersaturated air, combined with the speed i was riding at (barely took her over 110) but it was like someone cut off my air supply...

 

[GRNINJA]

one of my first journeys on the ten I almost did this..... car half pulled out without looking I shat it braced when the boy racer looked round right at me shit himself and floored it I missed him by a few feet 

[zxyogi]

funny you should say that...

the fog on the way to work this morning was unreal... the droplets were so big they were like rain.. hanging in the air.. well trippy first thing in the morning...

couldnt see more than 50 feet in front... and had to ride to work with my visor up...

odd thing was, i found it really hard to get my breath... not sure if it was the supersaturated air, combined with the speed i was riding at (barely took her over 110) but it was like someone cut off my air supply...

 

The Ol fog were bad this morning!!

[Hunter]

one of my worst was when i got my very first bike...

no training... noone showed me anything..

my brother met me outside my hometown with his old bike, threw me the keys and a lid and showed me where the clutch/brake etc etc was, then climbed into his car n drive off..

 

very next day i rode 120 miles up to Dublin,..,,. i came around this motorway bend, and because noone had shown me how to lean the bike or countersteer, i went straight on... right into the path of an oncoming articulated lorry...

i shit you not when i say my rear wheel missed the front of the truck by no more than 6 inches...

i would have been paste on the ground

[Andy J]

went out on mine on Tuesday and this boy racer tosspot decided to overtake a line of cars on a 'normal road' he simply couldn't judge that I was coming towards him on my side of the road    had to slow right down for the knob else I'd have hit him head on    young lads in cars thinking they are rally drivers are a huge danger 

not a fuck this is going to hurt moment but it could have been if I was going faster

[Wh|t3R@bb|t]

Erm....think the last brace for impact moment was the trackday at silvers when that fuckwit hit my arse end...then the bike fishtailing for a few hundred yard....

Was waiting for the bang, high side, handle bar gymnastics but nothing.  Bike gripped and I carried on being able to make the next bend....

F0000king shit myself though...was a little shaken on returning to the pits!

Had lots of moments though over the years, more so in cars....but that feeling is like nothing else!  That kind off close one eye and start to winch moment....waiting for the  Ouch moment. Then nothing....complete serene silence!  You open ya eyes and realise you've not died, nothing happened and you got away with it once more! 

Brillant! They say you should have one moment everyday that scares you 

[Hunter]

about the one fright per day...
i do tend to avoid looking in the mirror first thing in the morning for that very reason.,.

 

[slapknacker]

ha ha, do you have a big country head on ya then Hunter mate.

just as you said on the way 'up' to dublin

[Hunter]

Waterford born n bred mate...

though lived in Dublin for bout 9 years before moving over here...

so the Cows Lick is long gone.. as are the xmas jumpers in may

 

[roxy]

i`d love to have a close call all mine end up with the big bang at the end 

[slapknacker]

Waterford born n bred mate...

though lived in Dublin for bout 9 years before moving over here...

so the Cows Lick is long gone.. as are the xmas jumpers in may

 

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my misses is a Dub, she from a nice place called Tallaght

[Hunter]

Tallaght, eh?

used to be off limits to cops it was so rough, but i hear its cleaned up a lot these days..

 

[slapknacker]

  yea they only get one burnt out car a week now.

has changed alright, all gone high rise and appartments and all that.
still a few scangers about but you get that everywhere!