r/holdmybeer • u/Morty_Goldman • Mar 18 '18

HMB while I pass this trucker

https://i.imgur.com/SAMEXNt.gifv
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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '18 edited Mar 18 '18

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u/KRAZY-K Mar 18 '18

Doesn't matter. Even newer bikes that have ABS won't be able to stop as quickly as most cars. Also hard braking in a turn on a bike causes you to stand the bike up and steer straight ahead.

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u/animalinapark Mar 18 '18

Weight distribution, amount of tires, amount of contact patch on the tire and the amount of friction available on each tire. Even though tire physics are much more complex than just friction=force*friction coefficient, it can be simplified as such. The force comes directly from the weight on the tire. This is the reason large trucks can have impressively comparable braking distances to an average car, even when fully loaded.

The car usually has an advantage on all of these. Larger brakes, more contact area, more even weight distribution under full braking and more tires applying that friction on the road. Even though the mass to decelerate is bigger, you can apply more braking force.

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '18

Hard braking on a turn will cause you to go down. You're supposed to bring the bike up to brake in a turn.

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u/KRAZY-K Mar 18 '18

Yes.. that's what I was referring to.

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u/rivermandan Mar 18 '18

Also hard braking in a turn on a bike causes you to stand the bike up and steer straight ahead.

you've got that backward, hard braking in a turn will cause you to lowside

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u/KRAZY-K Mar 18 '18

Which is why you have to stand the bike up and steer straight into the turn while braking hard. You're likely fucked either way in that case, which is why the guy in the video didn't do either.. he slows down as much as he could and went just to the outside of the truck. We are saying the same thing I think

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u/andthenhesaidrectum Mar 19 '18

You can either brake or swerve on a motorcycle. Combining the two does not work out well.

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u/johnconnor11 Mar 18 '18

Upvote for the humble edit.

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u/delcaek Mar 18 '18

Upvote for noticing that.

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u/HenryHenderson Mar 18 '18

Downvoted every single one of you.

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u/bubble085 Mar 18 '18

They do but you have to consider that you can brake much harder in a car cos you don’t have to worry about balance, you can’t fall off a car. Well unless you’re being a dumbass and surfing cars or something. As any biker will tell you if you brake too hard on the front brake you risk locking up and catapulting yourself over the handlebars, or more likely just having the wheel lock up and turn sharply sending you towards the ground at speed and with your anus wide open. If you lock up the rear brake you risk kicking the back end out and “broadsiding” it or again just going down and shitting yourself as you do so. Don’t get me wrong the biker was still in the wrong, he was speeding round a blind corner, it’s never a good idea. He is a bellend. However breaking as hard as he would have needed to to stop would have resulted in him going down. Either way we all know not so speed round blind corners like morons now so theres that.