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OUCH

same thing happened to me when Rob, Brendan and I went for a loop up the PITS.
Brendan almost met a rock wall and i almost followed suit. nasty stuff that target fixation!
damn hard to shake the habit!

MrWasabi wrote:same thing happened to me when Rob, Brendan and I went for a loop up the PITS.
Brendan almost met a rock wall and i almost followed suit. nasty stuff that target fixation!
damn hard to shake the habit!

Me too... bout 97 fixed my sights on a huge dirty arse tree... thought i was ok.. and was stoked the old 175 honda twin was still running.. picked her up rode home, bars manged and bike fairly bent.. bit of shrapenal in the leg, but i freaked out the next day when i realised i had knocked all the numbers out of my head..phone numbers. addresses etc... mild concussion! was ok by the end of the week

Mine was a wombat hole in the middle of a bend up in the bush. l think the worse part about it, is that in your mind you know what you need to do but the body just wont answer.

Now that's just ludicrous.

I'll bet no-one above felt the magnetic pull as strong as the one in the video.

It's probably the hardest thing to stop doing (watching the bike in front) but goodness me at some point it must of entered the mind that the end result was going to be painful.

For the more experienced riders out there, how did you get over the habit of watching the person you were following?

easy look away

Ride in front - there are no distractions.

Must have been Randy's arse she was fixated on- only excuse for such an error!

I don't know if TF counts when you can't even see where you are going, ie can't see the target until you impact it

RichB wrote:I don't know if TF counts when you can't even see where you are going, ie can't see the target until you impact it

How do you think she found the target through the dust?????

Only a sheila could find it . My wife and her girlfriends are always bagging blokes about their inability to find 'stuff' .

penno wrote:Only a sheila could find it . My wife and her girlfriends are always bagging blokes about their inability to find 'stuff' .

The fella infront found the kitty litter alright!!!

Possum wrote:

penno wrote:Only a sheila could find it . My wife and her girlfriends are always bagging blokes about their inability to find 'stuff' .

The fella infront found the kitty litter alright!!!

As usual the girl was just silly enough to follow his lead!

Black Magic wrote:

Possum wrote:

penno wrote:Only a sheila could find it . My wife and her girlfriends are always bagging blokes about their inability to find 'stuff' .

The fella infront found the kitty litter alright!!!

As usual the girl was just silly enough to follow his lead!

Fella's will always lead ya astray!!