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03-02-2008, 09:04 PM
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| In Training   Join Date: Sep 2007
Bike: Suzuki M50 Limited Edition 2007
Location: Western North Carolina
Posts: 146
|  Speeding through twisties
We had some gorgeous riding weather here today in western NC, sunny and about 65 degrees. I took the M50 out for about 120 miles for a few hours of pleasure. The only small surprise I had was when I got on the Blue Ridge Parkway for a few miles I encountered some icy sections of road, but since I've ridden my mountain bicycle on a lot of snow and ice over the years I knew how to ride it and did not have any trouble. While coming back down from the Parkway on a long twisty section of Rt. 181 where the speed limit varies between 45 and 55 mph I encountered a number of sport riders who were really flying through there. I've only got a few thousand miles under my belt since starting back riding this past August, so I tend to ride the curves fairly conservatively. I try to maintain a speed that would allow me to stop or avoid some unseen hazard or bad road condition waiting around the next blind curve. Here is my question: When people ride through twisties at speeds that far exceed their sight distance are they basically relying on luck and fate that they won't round the next blind curve at 70 mph and find a patch of sand, gravel, broken down vehicle, etc. or have they developed some sort of skill set that I don't have that would allow them to avoid crashing when they come on such an unseen hazard? |
