Texperkin
Member
What did I learn yesterday? Oggie Knobs are essential equipment.
Embarrassing…… I did a hill start yesterday morning on the way to work onto a usually busy road. There was actually nothing coming and nothing waiting behind me so I don’t really have an excuse but I stalled the bike. Of course when I put my left foot down it was too far forward and because of the incline and the way I was already leaning over to go left the bike was going over. It was all in slow motion but I just couldn’t hold it in the end. I did manage to hold on enough just to place it on the ground the whole time thinking of that bit in Saving Private Ryan when German soldier every-so-slowly stabs the Italian guy through the heart.
Aaaanyway, I readjust and pick the bike up dreading the scratching I would find and see the following.
1) 1 small scratch out of the rim of the left Oggy Knob
2) 1 shallow scratch down my left mirror
3) Nothing else
I reckon they just paid for themselves 5 times over!
Embarrassing…… I did a hill start yesterday morning on the way to work onto a usually busy road. There was actually nothing coming and nothing waiting behind me so I don’t really have an excuse but I stalled the bike. Of course when I put my left foot down it was too far forward and because of the incline and the way I was already leaning over to go left the bike was going over. It was all in slow motion but I just couldn’t hold it in the end. I did manage to hold on enough just to place it on the ground the whole time thinking of that bit in Saving Private Ryan when German soldier every-so-slowly stabs the Italian guy through the heart.
Aaaanyway, I readjust and pick the bike up dreading the scratching I would find and see the following.
1) 1 small scratch out of the rim of the left Oggy Knob
2) 1 shallow scratch down my left mirror
3) Nothing else
I reckon they just paid for themselves 5 times over!