justlaura wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:06:thanks to so many for all the input...
i can't tell you what part of slow, look, press and roll i missed....,<snip>...so from a dead stop into a very tight right hand turn...and the bike seemed to me to lurch forward somehow when i started off...i tried to stop when i realized i wasn't turning and maybe when i tried to squeeze the brake i did roll on the throttle....<snip>
Okay, sympathy time is over....you just plain goofed. You describe it like a slow motion movie, and often that is the way we play these things back through our thoughts, but you just blew it. Plain and simple, screwed up. So let's get on with the healing process now...no more feeling sorry for ourselves. You fell down, got hurt and you hurt your pride. End of story.
Come on. Clean out those cobwebs. All that just sounds silly. You took the MSF course, and you also had to complete the skills test for doing that tight u-turn/figure 8. You will remember that at low speeds leaning is less of an issue while using a bit more body english is the trick.
Let's be real, there isn't anything more or less complicated about a "very tight right hand turn". What was it really? A turn that you navigate in a car on a regular basis without even a second thought, right? But it is too tight for a bike? And you were already stopped?
The bike didn't lurch forward. You made the bike lurch forward. You said, "I tried to stop, when I realized that I wasn't turning"....I love that one
. AAHHhhhh.....crash....What was your clutch hand doing? Flapping in the air?
Do you remember your MSF instruction about always keeping your hand on the clutch lever? That is so that you can always remove any forward power to the rear wheel. You were aimed straight at a truck and couldn't stop? Think about it. Even if the throttle was wide open, the clutch would have stopped you. You have a clutch lever, a brake lever, and a brake pedal.....if you had been controlling the bike the way the MSF course taught you, you would have stopped...or actually navigated the turn anyway.
All this isn't intended to be humor at your expense....not intended to ridicule as much as to make you think. If you are going to ride that bike again, you are gonna have to kick yourself in the butt, admit that you screwed up, and get back on that bike with the attitude that you aren't gonna make that stupid mistake again.....you may make others, but you are done with this one, now.
Go out and get a bunch of practice...baby steps. Practice those "very tight right hand turns" a whole lot before you go back out on that street....and Ride Safe.