Reckless general non-speeding

I've been riding for over 21 years...even taught the MSF course when I was in college. I've dragged pegs on my 1100 Kaw and rode the dragon in 4th gear. Added 5 teeth to the rear sprocket and dropped one off the front in order to reduce the cruising speed in its "sweet spot" to something that wouldn't cost me my livelihood. You don't think that gearing change didn't also make the front end lighter? In over 100,000 miles on 2 wheels, I have NEVER "accidently" had the front tire lift from the ground.

If that's true, it wasn't an accident. You know how to raise the front end, as well as how NOT to. You got caught playing, plain and simple. To try to claim it was an "accident" is pure BS and you know it. Don't even bother trying to claim otherwise, because everybody else knows it too.

 

Don't let these guys get to you. Lots of good information here but the Old School CB trolling ways have moved their way into the Net. The lunch counter lives and breathes in the Digital World just as well as the local truck stop.

Your employer can answer this better than anyone here. You should ask them directly.

Yes. Reckless is reckless. Insurance company Adjusters don't look at individual circumstances. They look at numbers only.

Yes. Don't blame your employer though. Blame yourself. Mistakes happen but we all are responsible for own actions whether intentional or otherwise. The decision will most likely be made due to your employer's insurance company dropping you. If they refuse to cover you then your employer won't have much choice other than removing you from the policy. Maybe they have other work you can do until your record clears up if the State gets a conviction.

Good luck.

 

You seem about as skilled with reading comprehension as you are in your riding.

The gearing change I was referring to wasn't your downshift, but rather swapping the front sprocket on my 1100 Kaw for a slightly smaller one and the rear sprocket for a much larger one. That raised my RPM's (so that I'd hit that "sweet spot" cruising a little closer to the speed limit and avoid speeding tickets)...but also increased the torque at the rear wheel, making it much easier to lift the front wheel off the ground.

I'm not saying I've never picked the front wheel up...just that it's never happened on accident. If you've got any semblence of grey matter between your ears, you know that a 600 isn't going to ride the same as a 1000, which isn't going to ride the same as a 1400...and you adjust your riding style accordingly. I wouldn't try to ride the Harley like I do the Kaw, or the Kaw like the Harley, either. Every machine has it's own limitations, as well as it's own capabilities. You as a rider need to weigh your own capabilities against the limitations of the machine, as well as your own limitations against the capabilities of the machine. Like a chain, you're only as good as the weakest link. It doesn't matter how good of a rider you are if the machine is pushed past it's limits, and it doesn't matter how good the machine is if the rider isn't able to control it.