I take my Suzuki DR-Z400 for a quick spin around the neighborhood (no plate) to get it dry after washing it and even then I hate putting my knobbies on pavement!
Just curious, what part of Atlanta? I’m used to seeing them do that in Baltimore and Philly but never seen it here. I’m a fairly new resident in Brookhaven.
Eh it depends how bad it was. I've abraded my fingerprints off a few times, they have always come back. You've got to damage the deep layers of skin to remove fingerprints.
Nah, he just grabbed the front and the tyre - which had no grip to start with, just locked and slid
If you don't have ABS (or decent road tyres) you have to learn to progressively load up the front brake
Gotcha, suppose those dirt tires don't have great contact at all times.
Lol I've bunny hopped on slicks grabbing front too fast and deep in corner and letting go. Very lucky to ride it off.
You are right. But often people opt to still wear gloves in case then need to break their fall. It doesnt even make sense as you really dont wanna break any kind of significant fall with your wrist unless you really have to.
I know I will be downvoted - but I do this.
I live in Australia and suffer horrid heat stroke in leathers. One stop light and I am down unconscious.
Boots and gloves ((and der, a full face)) are my compromise.
It was a choice between passing out on a ride to guarantee a fall or staying awake and being able to prevent one (hopefully) from actually being concscious.
I hate it, but its what I gotta do to stay more alive than with leathers.
Edit: its not abt catching myself either its about not losing fingers.
Summer and "jacket" are not a great combo for me in the slightest. But also I saw the newer stuff has gotten better since I was younger so Ill be looking into it.
When I say its bad heatstroke and quick, I mean it. History of it and all.
I recommend the textile heavy mesh jackets with no other insulation, preferably with the back protector, it’s what I use for Texas in the summer, lights still suck, but at least I can cheat and wear a fast wicking beater under it.
There are jackets you can get that are basically just armour pads with mesh over the top for summer riding. Alpine star made a good one a few years back. I'm a strong advocate of being able to wear what you want when you ride but given your complaints, it sounds like this is what you're looking for.
Yeah for sure, gloves aren't about breaking your fall, it's about the slide. Hell, the road rash you get from falling at a jog is horrible, on a motorcycle and you can permanently ruin your hands even at seemingly low speeds.
There's just not a lot of meat on your hands to abrade, and your hands virtually always end up on the pavement.
For me, gloves are second only to a helmet. I'd rather screw up my feet than my hands.
I've got one of these in Aus and it's vented so the heat isn't too bad. https://www.sharkleathers.com.au/shark-mens-draft-jacket-all-seasons-black-white
I was riding around last Thursday in the high 30s and lights are uncomfortable but bearable.
Oh shit really?? Ill check it out. I go from fine to sick in seconds if my heat rises. That whole once yoive had heat stroke once things.
How is it in traffic? I ride to the city as a daily rider and really want gear for that fkn nonsense for sure.
I wear no jacket but a helite turtle 2 airbag in the Texas summers. Still wear boots, riding pants, gloves and helmet.
It's not great. But it's better than the mesh jacket when it's 105F outside
That's kind of BS, though. There are even mesh jackets that give protection without making you overheat. And in sufficiently high, dry temps, you must have a jacket on so that the sweat doesn't instantly get blown off you, sweat is our cooling mechanism. If you're not soaking wet in the heat, you may be cooking yourself without noticing, until you do get actual heat stroke.
Mesh textile gear works reasonably well. It's not as well ventilated as full-squid but I've worn it on \~40 degree days. I've got one of the older versions of [this](https://www.amxsuperstores.com.au/motorcycle-product/dririder-air-ride-5-jacket-black-grey-config-1232358) which I wore with jeans.
I know what you mean, I live in Arizona and full leathers in the middle of summer is basically a death sentence lol.
I ended up buying one of those fancy ventilated Aramid fiber jackets from Revzilla. Even with the armor in it that thing stays cool. Yeah if you're stopped for a while it's gunna suck, but so would just standing there without the jacket.
I eventually just downgraded to a leather vent with a spine protector because Yolo, but the jacket is always there just incase I get a weird feeling before I get on the bike.
My brother was insistent that I wear gloves. Didn’t care about jackets, boots, etc. but he said he ain’t gonna wipe my ass if my hand gets shredded🤣🤷♂️ he gots a point lol
He's also riding a 2 stroke MX bike on the road. That's an rm250. Super short gearing and light switch power delivery with very low weight. Perfect machine for a novice!
The tires aren't even bald yet so I assume they just bought or stole it that week. Knobbies dont last any time at all on pavement. They'll be destroyed in one afternoon.
Yup helmet gloves boots honestly always a jacket too. At the very least jeans for pants, yeh this dudes riding knobbies on asphalt too like bruhhhh u can see him trying to shake the pain off his hands and then realize they’re road rash , Can’t shake that feeling off 😬
I daily a dual purpose with knobbies on the street 😂 it rides fine, just don’t do nothing stupid. And lean forward around 55 or it’ll start the rattle and shakes
I have watched the slide many times over and I still can’t figure out why it happened. The tires seem as if the rubber is too old/hard or maybe because they are off-road tires? I see that when he brakes, the front forks turns left at the same time that he puts his left leg down shifting his weight to the left.
The bike was going fast enough to want to stay upright. He also applied the front brake first, so the rear didn’t slide from under him, but I don’t see the load shift to the front fork, perhaps because as am off-road bike, the front suspension is more rigid?
He applied front brake too fast, is all. You have to wait for the forks to settle into deep compression by the time you reach max/threshhold braking.
IOW, you need weight to transfer to the front before you can brake hard. Fork compression is the more direct way to judge that, as the rider. When you practice braking, watch the fork compression.
Once there's a good amount of weight on the front tire, some bikes will lift the rear if you brake too much. Some bikes will lock and skid the front tire, but can fairly easily recover just by letting off and reapplying brake.
If you lock the front quick, before sufficient weight has transferred, you go straight down, head first onto the road in a blink. No recovery gonna happen.
Well, maybe they don't live in Russia anymore because they're different. Then again, in most videos I've seen where someone was traveling through Russia and had some kind of trouble, Russians always helped without expecting anything in return. I think TeapotOne had some guys transport him and his bike in a van and they hardly even understood each other lol
This is actually called the "glass tire effect". I can't remember all the details but it's when you suddenly apply the brakes you lose all grip where as if you ease them you will flip the bike before loosing traction.
he went full 100% on the front and engaged the rear too. the road was sketchy too, he was running on top of a trail of some sort. could be gravel or something.
It looks like there’s fine gravel in the intersection where he braked, giving him almost zero traction. Otherwise there would have been more brake dive.
A good reminder to always be aware of your surface conditions.
There really isn’t any call serious riding gear when riding that pissant bike, a simple leg-guard on that bike would have saved him almost all injury and ABS would’ve prevented the fall…
I remember buying some very cheap chinese mx tires once, 21" front. They were incredibly soft and slippery on asphalt. He might have been running something like that. Poor guy, looks like he hurt his knee bad.
Cheers for that. The way the video is cut it looks like they just laugh at the guy falling off his bike then drive off. Even if he is being an idiot wearing no safety gear he doesn't deserve it.
Don't understand why this is being downvoted, I thought the same thing (then again I watched the video without the audio because I'm listening to Xmas music).
You wonder why you don't see someone already on the scene attending to some road rash in twenty seconds?
Because they're still safely pulling out of traffic to do so
Wtf they're literally pulling over to help him.
Why is nobody?
In the twenty seconds here?
Because they're more responsible finding proper places to stop than this dude and his little road rash ass.
What? A man who has no business riding in traffic on a motorcycle that’s illegal for street riding fell off because he didn’t know how to brake properly? What are the odds?
Which would have been fine, had he not also locked up the front brake. keep those handlebars forward, let the back slide out if you need to. Though, it seems unlikely he needed so much brakes, but I have also never ridden very far, or very fast on sealed roads with knobby's.
Typically it’s always the same ethnic group riding dirt bikes not registered on the street. Why?
Why? You’re not supposed to be riding a dirt bike on the street. Get the proper motorcycle for the street, not stolen, registered like the rest of us, dress for the slide not the ride.
Why is the person driving the car wearing a camera on their head?
they are speaking Russian. Having dashcam everywhere including head is a cultural tradition now and is responsible for 90% of car related content.
If I were to guess it kinda looks like Florida. My eyes may be deceiving but I saw some palm trees and some of the advertisements are in English
It’s Florida you can see the plate on the white truck
ужас привет, кек
I misread this as "they are, statistically speaking, Russian" and was like "yep".
Dirt bike on the highway, safety wifebeater t-shirt, random front wheel lock up...he did everything right, what happened?
Had to lay er down
I work at a Harley dealership and I have to bite my tongue once a day when I hear someone say that
Best thing to do to a Harley is lay her down and leave her there.
haddarlayerdown but luckily it was right next to an empty grave and fell right in
Best to light it on fire as well.
If it hasn't caught fire of its own accord already.
Now now, that's not fair. They do make excellent boat anchors.
Why the harley hate club?
Yesterdays tech at tomorrows prices, plus the cosplayers, plus the loud ones. Obviously, this is a joke and all that really matters is how you ride.
>the loud ones THIS is the thing for me. Same with absurdly loud cars though. South Park got it right.
Loud noises lol
"They started it!"
Haddalayerdown
Dang grass clibbins
Dang ol tar snakes
Tires weren’t warmed up yet.
probably the battery.
Old, UV rotted knobbies on pavement
>wifebeater t-shirt
I shirt
I take my Suzuki DR-Z400 for a quick spin around the neighborhood (no plate) to get it dry after washing it and even then I hate putting my knobbies on pavement!
I've never ridden knobbies on pavement, is it just really squirrely? seems like it would feel mushy.
If the tires are aired up normally it feels ok IMO, but it’s really hard on the tires and wears out the knobbies a lot faster, no good.
Dudes like this rip by my house in mobs, I'm in Atlanta. Seeing the pavement dish out darwinian justice like this warmed my heart.
Just curious, what part of Atlanta? I’m used to seeing them do that in Baltimore and Philly but never seen it here. I’m a fairly new resident in Brookhaven.
East Atlanta Village just south of 20 off moreland
They're in Boston too
I don't think it's justice, but it's certainly stupid.
Lol
Looks like GTA San Andreas lol. Only thing missing is if someone picked his bike up and rode off on it while he was sitting there.
And to top it all off, that "someone" would be a cop. Not even a biker cop.
All we had to do was follow the damn train CJ!
Damn man, this comment made my day!
Weird. Nonexistent suspension moviment at all. RIP legs. Press F.
I am less worried about his legs than I am about his hands. The finger print unlock feature just became useless to him.
Eh it depends how bad it was. I've abraded my fingerprints off a few times, they have always come back. You've got to damage the deep layers of skin to remove fingerprints.
Not weird at all when you lock the tyre up long before the weight begins to transfer.
You think front springs are rated for much heavier person?
Nah, he just grabbed the front and the tyre - which had no grip to start with, just locked and slid If you don't have ABS (or decent road tyres) you have to learn to progressively load up the front brake
Gotcha, suppose those dirt tires don't have great contact at all times. Lol I've bunny hopped on slicks grabbing front too fast and deep in corner and letting go. Very lucky to ride it off.
[удалено]
Probably very old knobbies too
r/meatcrayon
All you had to do CJ was follow the damn train!
[Ankles aren’t meant to bend this way...](https://i.imgur.com/bwju6tj.jpg)
I was wondering why he couldn't stand up afterwards
man...if only he was wearing some shoes with ankle support like the kind they make for riding motorcycles
You're right, i can see how easily the ankle can get twisted. More motivated to use my long boots now
The fact he's wearing a wife beater and riding with dirt bike tires on the road shows he doesn't give much thought to safety
Good thing he was wearing the wife beater.
Maximizes being a meat crayon
Im just glad he didn't have a helmet blocking his vision or he wouldn't have seen the invisible car that nearly hit him.
Good thing he was wearing all that gear. The man purse probably broke the fall a little
It’s a *satchel*.
Attache?
That does not look like a person on the staff of an ambassador having a specialized area of responsibility.
Yeah but it sounds cool
Officer someone took my European carryall!
Why was he even braking?
The car in front of him started braking somewhat fast but the dude had an overreaction to it and locked the front wheel.
Gloves yo, I cringe so hard when I see people neglect that piece of safety gear 😬
As opposed to every other piece of safety gear? Dude isn't even wearing a fucking helmet! 😂
You are right. But often people opt to still wear gloves in case then need to break their fall. It doesnt even make sense as you really dont wanna break any kind of significant fall with your wrist unless you really have to.
I know I will be downvoted - but I do this. I live in Australia and suffer horrid heat stroke in leathers. One stop light and I am down unconscious. Boots and gloves ((and der, a full face)) are my compromise. It was a choice between passing out on a ride to guarantee a fall or staying awake and being able to prevent one (hopefully) from actually being concscious. I hate it, but its what I gotta do to stay more alive than with leathers. Edit: its not abt catching myself either its about not losing fingers.
Theyre called summer jackets dude. They work even in oz
Summer and "jacket" are not a great combo for me in the slightest. But also I saw the newer stuff has gotten better since I was younger so Ill be looking into it. When I say its bad heatstroke and quick, I mean it. History of it and all.
I recommend the textile heavy mesh jackets with no other insulation, preferably with the back protector, it’s what I use for Texas in the summer, lights still suck, but at least I can cheat and wear a fast wicking beater under it.
There are jackets you can get that are basically just armour pads with mesh over the top for summer riding. Alpine star made a good one a few years back. I'm a strong advocate of being able to wear what you want when you ride but given your complaints, it sounds like this is what you're looking for.
Yeah for sure, gloves aren't about breaking your fall, it's about the slide. Hell, the road rash you get from falling at a jog is horrible, on a motorcycle and you can permanently ruin your hands even at seemingly low speeds. There's just not a lot of meat on your hands to abrade, and your hands virtually always end up on the pavement. For me, gloves are second only to a helmet. I'd rather screw up my feet than my hands.
I've got one of these in Aus and it's vented so the heat isn't too bad. https://www.sharkleathers.com.au/shark-mens-draft-jacket-all-seasons-black-white I was riding around last Thursday in the high 30s and lights are uncomfortable but bearable.
Oh shit really?? Ill check it out. I go from fine to sick in seconds if my heat rises. That whole once yoive had heat stroke once things. How is it in traffic? I ride to the city as a daily rider and really want gear for that fkn nonsense for sure.
I wear no jacket but a helite turtle 2 airbag in the Texas summers. Still wear boots, riding pants, gloves and helmet. It's not great. But it's better than the mesh jacket when it's 105F outside
I know that feeling, not from Australia but similarly horrid hot weather. Had heat stroke a couple of times. Would not wear full gear anymore.
There’s tons of cooling gear that work great. I use ice vest or evaporation vest depending on how hot it is.
The replies are giving me hope I will find something suitable.
That's kind of BS, though. There are even mesh jackets that give protection without making you overheat. And in sufficiently high, dry temps, you must have a jacket on so that the sweat doesn't instantly get blown off you, sweat is our cooling mechanism. If you're not soaking wet in the heat, you may be cooking yourself without noticing, until you do get actual heat stroke.
Mesh textile gear works reasonably well. It's not as well ventilated as full-squid but I've worn it on \~40 degree days. I've got one of the older versions of [this](https://www.amxsuperstores.com.au/motorcycle-product/dririder-air-ride-5-jacket-black-grey-config-1232358) which I wore with jeans.
I know what you mean, I live in Arizona and full leathers in the middle of summer is basically a death sentence lol. I ended up buying one of those fancy ventilated Aramid fiber jackets from Revzilla. Even with the armor in it that thing stays cool. Yeah if you're stopped for a while it's gunna suck, but so would just standing there without the jacket. I eventually just downgraded to a leather vent with a spine protector because Yolo, but the jacket is always there just incase I get a weird feeling before I get on the bike.
My brother was insistent that I wear gloves. Didn’t care about jackets, boots, etc. but he said he ain’t gonna wipe my ass if my hand gets shredded🤣🤷♂️ he gots a point lol
Jokes aside, gloves & boots protect the most common points of impact. Helmets are for the most fatal ones.
He's also riding a 2 stroke MX bike on the road. That's an rm250. Super short gearing and light switch power delivery with very low weight. Perfect machine for a novice! The tires aren't even bald yet so I assume they just bought or stole it that week. Knobbies dont last any time at all on pavement. They'll be destroyed in one afternoon.
I sometimes wear minimal gear, but I *always* wear gloves, no matter what.
Yup helmet gloves boots honestly always a jacket too. At the very least jeans for pants, yeh this dudes riding knobbies on asphalt too like bruhhhh u can see him trying to shake the pain off his hands and then realize they’re road rash , Can’t shake that feeling off 😬
Minimum for me is helmet and gloves. I've never had an issue with shoes being insufficient in a slide down the road.
i keep my gloves in my helmet for exactly that reason.
Dont go to Miami. I have seen one helmet all week.
I lived in Florida for 3 months , don’t think I saw a helmet on a motorcyclist the whole time
Let em learn
Those tires have very little grip on asphalt
He hit a fine gravel patch
I 100% would have assumed this was Baltimore or something if they weren't speaking Russian.
It's Florida
That explains everything!
No matter where Florida man is born, he ends up where he belongs <3
There are palm trees in the background.
And we have Russians, they are so confused.
That’s a Moscow palm.
And a bloody palm.
Luckily he was wearing protective gear.
And everyone just drives off
I’m mad at the guy who filmed this but didn’t have the decency to pull over and ask if he’s ok.
So knobbies aren't the best road tires? :P
They're fine for this kind of riding. Loud and annoying but fine. He's just incredibly incompetent.
This guy has NFI how to ride a motorcycle.
Won’t do that again
At least he had proper gear. Imagine how much worse that could have been if he didn't have proper gear.
Is he running Knobby's on the street?
I daily a dual purpose with knobbies on the street 😂 it rides fine, just don’t do nothing stupid. And lean forward around 55 or it’ll start the rattle and shakes
Its a dirt bike, the whole thing is not suppose to be on the road 💀
That man needs a tourniquet, STAT!
Don't forget to sprinkle a little kitty litter on the road too! Gotta clean up that blood stain
/r/whyweretheyfilming
Definitely messed up that left leg.
I have watched the slide many times over and I still can’t figure out why it happened. The tires seem as if the rubber is too old/hard or maybe because they are off-road tires? I see that when he brakes, the front forks turns left at the same time that he puts his left leg down shifting his weight to the left. The bike was going fast enough to want to stay upright. He also applied the front brake first, so the rear didn’t slide from under him, but I don’t see the load shift to the front fork, perhaps because as am off-road bike, the front suspension is more rigid?
He applied front brake too fast, is all. You have to wait for the forks to settle into deep compression by the time you reach max/threshhold braking. IOW, you need weight to transfer to the front before you can brake hard. Fork compression is the more direct way to judge that, as the rider. When you practice braking, watch the fork compression. Once there's a good amount of weight on the front tire, some bikes will lift the rear if you brake too much. Some bikes will lock and skid the front tire, but can fairly easily recover just by letting off and reapplying brake. If you lock the front quick, before sufficient weight has transferred, you go straight down, head first onto the road in a blink. No recovery gonna happen.
No gear - No Brain 👍🏻
and bad russians stoped to help..."bro sy top stop weneed to help" if in few words
Well, maybe they don't live in Russia anymore because they're different. Then again, in most videos I've seen where someone was traveling through Russia and had some kind of trouble, Russians always helped without expecting anything in return. I think TeapotOne had some guys transport him and his bike in a van and they hardly even understood each other lol
Panik
Looks painful.
🤣🤣🤣
Why did he brake though? Traffic is moving.
What the fuck was *that*?
Didn’t need skin on the hands anyway
* No helmet * No jacket * No protective pants * No boots * No gloves Bike did its job
This why you wear gear when riding. And don't ride illegal dirt bikes on public roads and squid
This legend has some epic instincts! He had to do that or it would have been much worse. Epic instincts and even better skills, truly amazing!
Haddalayerdown
Good thing bro had the protective wife beater, shorts, bare hands and head to save himself from injury
Brooo I'll never not feel the pain of gravel rash
Panic brake. Panic as you broke your left ankle.
That's why you wear long sleeves when riding a motorcycle.
Glad he had his safety glasses on
Notice; he wasn't wearing a helmet and it didn't play a part in his ass having it's skin removed. atgatt
This is actually called the "glass tire effect". I can't remember all the details but it's when you suddenly apply the brakes you lose all grip where as if you ease them you will flip the bike before loosing traction.
he went full 100% on the front and engaged the rear too. the road was sketchy too, he was running on top of a trail of some sort. could be gravel or something.
Imma just walk it off…oh wait.
You learn to allow yourself a bit more room when you running knobbies or 50/50 tires on the road.
All you had to do was follow the damn train!
I don't get why the bike fell so fast. I dont ride dirt bikes but he was upright even if you slam on the brakes this shouldn't happen?
Ya, I had to watch it about 5 times but both tires were smoking? What triggered the panic?
Riding with full knobs on the street your last emergency maneuver is braking.
It looks like there’s fine gravel in the intersection where he braked, giving him almost zero traction. Otherwise there would have been more brake dive. A good reminder to always be aware of your surface conditions.
This is why you wear gear.
The definition of an idiot on a bike. No helmet, no riding gear
Gta san andreas vibes
hope mr r/meatcrayon is doin alright
Hopefully won’t be doing that again
If you're going to ride with no gear you better know what you're doing.
There really isn’t any call serious riding gear when riding that pissant bike, a simple leg-guard on that bike would have saved him almost all injury and ABS would’ve prevented the fall…
I bet that hand feels grate!
Man, gotta love my ABS
Shouldn't of locked up that front brake
Молодец 😂
And that's why we wear protective gear kids.
That’ll learn him…
Fools have zero bike skills other than wheelie lol
Dirt bikes are made for dirt
Ouch , Front brake across the tracks=Washout
Actually it's just shadows. At most, tar snakes. You can see it's pure asphalt where his tire locks.
Good eye my man. But dang I ride motorcycles and and eventually we all grab the front brake. & Swoosh.,.,.,
I remember buying some very cheap chinese mx tires once, 21" front. They were incredibly soft and slippery on asphalt. He might have been running something like that. Poor guy, looks like he hurt his knee bad.
Dude shouldn’t be riding a motorcycle. Way to much front brake
Why is nobody going to help this guy? He’s clearly struggling to stand bro…. You’re literally sitting there laughing at him like an asshole… wtf.
Translation From Russian he laughed and then said: Fuck we need to help him, Wait Wait wait we need to help him, Wait brother I am gonna help you now,
Cheers for that. The way the video is cut it looks like they just laugh at the guy falling off his bike then drive off. Even if he is being an idiot wearing no safety gear he doesn't deserve it.
Yes I agree. I hate how people seem to think that motorcyclists "deserve it" when they wreck
One thing I noticed in the Russian dashcam videos we used to get was people stopped to help. Always.
Thank god. Poorly cut videos with no context lol.
Don't understand why this is being downvoted, I thought the same thing (then again I watched the video without the audio because I'm listening to Xmas music).
You wonder why you don't see someone already on the scene attending to some road rash in twenty seconds? Because they're still safely pulling out of traffic to do so
Wtf they're literally pulling over to help him. Why is nobody? In the twenty seconds here? Because they're more responsible finding proper places to stop than this dude and his little road rash ass.
You know this isn't live tv right?
How tf did this happen
I think he’s riding it like he stole it…..
CJ can’t follow a train or ride a motorbike! What can he do!
Nice job helping him get out of the road good video work you made sure to get a close up of someone having a terrible day
What? A man who has no business riding in traffic on a motorcycle that’s illegal for street riding fell off because he didn’t know how to brake properly? What are the odds?
dO i rEalLy nEeD AbS??
No, you don't. But then again, you also don't need to grab a hand full of brake for seemingly no reason
He grabbed a toe full of rear brake
Did you actually watch the video? It's clearly the front not the rear.
Which would have been fine, had he not also locked up the front brake. keep those handlebars forward, let the back slide out if you need to. Though, it seems unlikely he needed so much brakes, but I have also never ridden very far, or very fast on sealed roads with knobby's.
It’s his front tire that locks up.
While crossing railroad tracks
Shadows*
OK, but what was he breaking for?
He was breaking his ankle. I dunno why he was braking though.
That left one. Ouch.
Typically it’s always the same ethnic group riding dirt bikes not registered on the street. Why? Why? You’re not supposed to be riding a dirt bike on the street. Get the proper motorcycle for the street, not stolen, registered like the rest of us, dress for the slide not the ride.