low side

Motorcycle roadracing term used to describe a crash in which the bike is leaned over while cornering and falls down towards the inside (i.e. the low side). A low side usually occurs when front wheel traction is suddenly lost.

The flip side of this (no pun intended) is a high side crash.

Billy lost the front going into Turn 1 and low sided.

by razer December 26, 2006

Lowside

Crashing a motorcycle on a corner or turn, where the rider falls to the inside of the curve. Preferable over a highside.

I started to lose it in turn three and laid it down in a hard lowside.

by FastFlyby May 6, 2006