Rushiku
Junior Member
Noob wins by a nose...
I was out a few days ago, feeling good about my improving skills. I was riding 'hard' for my skill level, pushing my limits on some nice twisties I had found.
Came up on a little chicane, right sweeper with an abrupt, tight left...as you've already guessed, much too fast.
Leaned deep into the left, basically defeated myself ('not gonna make this, aw crap, gravel') visually locked on to the gravel (stupid), hit the brakes and popped out of the lean.
The gravel had crept up on to the roadway from the shoulder (a road intersects tangent to the apex, people have been cutting through the gravel to make their right turns), taking up about 2 feet of the outside. Back tire locked up and swung out, silently screaming, I counter steered, rear end came back around, and out to the left now, counter steer again (I've freaked, checked out, and am running on autopilot at this point), slowing down, another couple wobbles and GAH! sign post! Narrowly miss that and back on to the road.
Whew.
I was out a few days ago, feeling good about my improving skills. I was riding 'hard' for my skill level, pushing my limits on some nice twisties I had found.
Came up on a little chicane, right sweeper with an abrupt, tight left...as you've already guessed, much too fast.
Leaned deep into the left, basically defeated myself ('not gonna make this, aw crap, gravel') visually locked on to the gravel (stupid), hit the brakes and popped out of the lean.
The gravel had crept up on to the roadway from the shoulder (a road intersects tangent to the apex, people have been cutting through the gravel to make their right turns), taking up about 2 feet of the outside. Back tire locked up and swung out, silently screaming, I counter steered, rear end came back around, and out to the left now, counter steer again (I've freaked, checked out, and am running on autopilot at this point), slowing down, another couple wobbles and GAH! sign post! Narrowly miss that and back on to the road.
Whew.