Wot a pillock (me)

[Lez72]

I'm okay, just a stonking great bruise on my right thumb and broken pride and fragile confidence.

I'm a newb and I've come off twice in three months.  Starting to wonder if it's a sign.

Street view is here: http://goo.gl/maps/IJDbj

No real excuse I can think of apart from incompetence.  I thought I was going in too quick, tried the rear brake, as I was beginning to go around the corner, no speed dropped off so I put the rear brake on more and it locked up... I think.  I don't know, apart from I was stupid.

I need to practise cornering off the road (by off the road I mean track), apparently Mallory park do a cornering course or something.  I just go around corners fine and then occasionally, for no reason I can ascertain, I just think this feels wrong and it all falls apart a bit.

I never thought I was a good rider but I seem a lot better at speed than when I'm travelling slowly.  It's a bit surreal.

Glad you're Ok but seriously, if you have fallen off twice in 3 months then you need to get some extra tuition or call it a day before you turn into a statistic.