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11-14-2004, 09:23 PM
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| Where Am I ?  Join Date: Oct 2004
Bike: Boulevard C50
Location: Northern, California
Posts: 28
 |  Highside in the making?
On my way to church today (must be why I'm alive to report this to you), I was cruising (way too fast) on a foggy morning (duh...that mean high levels of moisture on EVERYTHING, including the roadway, Duke!), when I had to stop for a stoplight. I see it turning yellow, so I put on the brakes, but I'm still going WAYYY to fast to make it stop. So what do I do...put on more (rear) brake!. I heard the gentle sound of me shaving a few hundred miles of longetivity on my rear tire, and felt the oh so gentle slide of it drifting to my left. At the last minute, instead of riding out the slide and possible highsiding or stopping in the middle of the intersection, I hooked a right at the intersection and accelerated through the turn....no highside, and nothing achey now (except my sphincter muscle). Note to self...fog=more moisture on the ground=SLOW THE HELL DOWN!!! |
