Out of body experience...

NJ-GS · 02-26-2010, 05:54 AM

Anyone get this?

Riding a little too fast, lean into a turn, and the bike doesn't quite lean or turn the way you expect it to. You get a rush of uneasiness, and then you feel like you're leaving your body...but not in a good way.

DAKEZ · 02-26-2010, 06:08 AM

No.

Blue&Yellow · 02-26-2010, 07:42 AM

I wouldn't exactly call it our of body experience, I think I know what you're talking about but I would more like to call it "Borderline Oh Shit Moment" but where you're still in control. Is this what you mean or am I out peddling on the blue bike?

DR Donk · 02-26-2010, 09:14 AM

I think I know what you mean. It's where you see an accident coming and your brain is checking out.

I've experienced it- right before a major accident in my car.

Balanzed · 02-26-2010, 09:51 AM

I did feel something like that last year on my GS/A. I was rusty. Hadn't been riding for a while because of back pain. I go for a ride with some people from the FJR forum and we were to meet in NH. On the way up there my friend on his FJR is in front because I usually goes faster than him. We get to a corner and I'm honestly not very concentrated. A decreasing right turn. I see him go through it, I'm not that far from him and then I run out of road.........BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIP! nothing but white noise on the top floor....and I'm heading in to see if I can find Bambi.....I yell at myself, not out loud, to break the trance I apparently am in, and that snaps me out of it and I remember that this bike can do a lot more than I think it can. I focus on the apex (like the good book says) and the bike leans even more. I feel my boot scraping lightly on the road and.....I'm coming out of the turn really fast....so fast I'm all the way up on my friends rear since he's getting ready for the next curve.
WEEEEEIRD feeling! I could see what was happening, I just didn't do anything about it. Not really freezing, more of a kind of apathy.
Is that what you talking about?

fast4d · 02-26-2010, 09:58 AM

my stomach just falls and I feel the pressure against my spincter.

this happened with a new front tire yesterday.

muddywater · 02-26-2010, 04:20 PM

I get a taste in my mouth. Like rust.

NJ-GS · 02-26-2010, 04:36 PM

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Originally Posted by muddywater

I get a taste in my mouth. Like rust.

Sounds like the taste of blood.

Navy Chief · 02-26-2010, 05:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NJ-GS

Sounds like the taste of blood.

That is from biting the insides of your cheeks instead of screaming OH SHIT!

Effisland · 02-26-2010, 06:07 PM

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Originally Posted by NJ-GS

Anyone get this?

Riding a little too fast, lean into a turn, and the bike doesn't quite lean or turn the way you expect it to. You get a rush of uneasiness, and then you feel like you're leaving your body...but not in a good way.

Sounds like the time I knew I couldn't make a turn in a construction area and put the bike down on purpose, sliding into oncoming traffic during rush hour. When I stopped the bike flat in the oncoming lane, it had me pinned while a van's bumper stopped right over me. Luckily all was well (except my ankle) and the guy helped pick up my bike. I went on my way totally shaking, probably in shock. Those moments went by slowly and it was like I was watching a movie through someone else's eyes.

You never said what happened next. Did you crash or remain upright?

Other stuff happens, like when I'm going too fast for conditions and the image of a crash comes to mind or me hurtling into oncoming traffic or over a cliff. Helps to control the stupid tendencies of adrenaline driving. Those gory images are almost like what is going to happen and if I don't listen then they DO happen! You gotta be paying attention to those inner signals...

brumbie13 · 02-27-2010, 08:32 AM

Apathy is the best explanation of how I feel.
I just begin to feel like it doesn't matter.

And then I remember that I still have the ability to choose, and I try to correct the problem.

I haven't died yet.

Seth S · 02-27-2010, 08:38 AM

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Originally Posted by muddywater

I get a taste in my mouth. Like rust.

+1

At Sandblast Rallymoto this year I went into a wet clay rut doing around 50 mph. I fought for control for a couple of hundred feet and was losing. My vision started to change, I could taste the coppery taste in my mouth, and my body was preparing for impact. Then in a flash I managed to get all control back and proceed on.

WooPig · 05-09-2010, 03:55 PM

Happened to me yesterday. Too hot into a turn on a gravel road and I was suddenly having to remind myself that this was really happening, not a memory or a film or something. I had the distinct feeling of having to snap myself awake two or three times within a couple of seconds. It ended well but it was spooky.

MikeinSA · 05-09-2010, 06:58 PM

I usually pee a little.

ColinDoyle · 05-09-2010, 08:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Effisland

I couldn't make a turn in a construction area and put the bike down on purpose, sliding into oncoming traffic during rush hour.

Oh?

02-26-2010, 05:54 AM	#1
NJ-GS ^OP Studly Adventurer Joined: Mar 2007 Location: Fareast PA (formerly NJ) Oddometer: 768	Out of body experience... Anyone get this? Riding a little too fast, lean into a turn, and the bike doesn't quite lean or turn the way you expect it to. You get a rush of uneasiness, and then you feel like you're leaving your body...but not in a good way. __________________ A serious side effect of life is death. Ride while you can.

02-26-2010, 06:08 AM	#2
DAKEZ Beastly Adventurer Joined: Mar 2007 Location: U-gene, OR. Oddometer: 17,983	No. __________________ "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." — Dr. Seuss “Watch out for everything bigger than you, they have the "right of weight" Bib

02-26-2010, 09:58 AM	#6
fast4d Beastly Adventurer Joined: Jul 2007 Location: Los Angeles, CA Oddometer: 1,545	my stomach just falls and I feel the pressure against my spincter. this happened with a new front tire yesterday. __________________ Alan 2011 KTM RC8R 2012 BMW S1000RR 2000 Kawasaki ZRX1100

02-26-2010, 04:20 PM	#7
muddywater Studly Adventurer Joined: Oct 2007 Location: East TN Oddometer: 602	I get a taste in my mouth. Like rust. __________________ 08 KLR, 02 620Monster

02-27-2010, 08:32 AM	#11
brumbie13 Born to be Mild Joined: Nov 2009 Oddometer: 126	Apathy is the best explanation of how I feel. I just begin to feel like it doesn't matter. And then I remember that I still have the ability to choose, and I try to correct the problem. I haven't died yet. __________________ 1992 Honda Nighthawk: CB750 ------------------------------- Dotse: Riding a motorcycle doesn't require near as much focus as driving a car!

02-26-2010, 07:42 AM	#3
Blue&Yellow but orange inside... Joined: Jan 2010 Location: Sweden Oddometer: 754	I wouldn't exactly call it our of body experience, I think I know what you're talking about but I would more like to call it "Borderline Oh Shit Moment" but where you're still in control. Is this what you mean or am I out peddling on the blue bike?

02-26-2010, 09:14 AM	#4
DR Donk Gnarly Adventurer Joined: Jul 2009 Location: Western Michigan Oddometer: 219	I think I know what you mean. It's where you see an accident coming and your brain is checking out. I've experienced it- right before a major accident in my car.

02-26-2010, 09:51 AM	#5
Balanzed Beastly Adventurer Joined: Jul 2008 Location: North Oddometer: 2,255	I did feel something like that last year on my GS/A. I was rusty. Hadn't been riding for a while because of back pain. I go for a ride with some people from the FJR forum and we were to meet in NH. On the way up there my friend on his FJR is in front because I usually goes faster than him. We get to a corner and I'm honestly not very concentrated. A decreasing right turn. I see him go through it, I'm not that far from him and then I run out of road.........BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIP! nothing but white noise on the top floor....and I'm heading in to see if I can find Bambi.....I yell at myself, not out loud, to break the trance I apparently am in, and that snaps me out of it and I remember that this bike can do a lot more than I think it can. I focus on the apex (like the good book says) and the bike leans even more. I feel my boot scraping lightly on the road and.....I'm coming out of the turn really fast....so fast I'm all the way up on my friends rear since he's getting ready for the next curve. WEEEEEIRD feeling! I could see what was happening, I just didn't do anything about it. Not really freezing, more of a kind of apathy. Is that what you talking about?

05-09-2010, 03:55 PM	#13
WooPig Subject to Change Joined: Aug 2006 Location: The Southern Plains. All of it. Oddometer: 552	Happened to me yesterday. Too hot into a turn on a gravel road and I was suddenly having to remind myself that this was really happening, not a memory or a film or something. I had the distinct feeling of having to snap myself awake two or three times within a couple of seconds. It ended well but it was spooky. __________________

05-09-2010, 06:58 PM	#14
MikeinSA Flo's Ho Joined: May 2009 Location: San Antonio, TX Oddometer: 3,023	I usually pee a little.

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