California it is legal to split lanes. I have done it for many years without any accidents or near misses. You can tell where this is going already. Yesterday the traffic is backed up for 2 miles. My dad is dying of dementia induced by brain radiation. I am a hurry to get home and check him. I am doing about 30mph and traffic is at 5-10mph(when not stopped). Without a hint of intention (no turn signals, no over the shoulder check it out look) this guy has an opening in the right lane and darts for it.
I hit that brake harder than I ever have in my life. I did my first endo. Front tire squealing like a stuck pig. I feel the rear wheel come up hard. I see I am skidding right toward the bumper of this idiot. I see the pavement facing me at a 45 degree angle. Interesting aspect i have never experienced before. I think of Saiid in a flash and his propensity to slam into basically parked cars (smile...u know I love you man). I am screaming expletives. Somehow I miss him by about a foot.
As I come around him he gives me this sheepish "I'm sorry" look. Talk about a massive squirt of adrenaline. Ten minutes later I am stopped at a turn signal waiting to make my left hand turn. I check the traffic and my line through the corner. Since I was second vehicle back I decided to go around the vehicle in front of me on the outside of a two laner heading east. As I got to the apex of my line and started to lean the bike harder the front tire hit some sand that I couldn't see from the stop light. Front tire washes out and regrips about 5 feet or so later. What the heck did I do to get two adrenaline squirts within 15 minutes of each other? Remember to check britches when home!
Experience has taught all of us still alive on high powered bikes to cover the brake at all times when in traffic. If I had not I would have been buggered. Maybe not dead at 35 mph...But buggered for sure.
Always cover that brake...saved my sorry arse...
I hit that brake harder than I ever have in my life. I did my first endo. Front tire squealing like a stuck pig. I feel the rear wheel come up hard. I see I am skidding right toward the bumper of this idiot. I see the pavement facing me at a 45 degree angle. Interesting aspect i have never experienced before. I think of Saiid in a flash and his propensity to slam into basically parked cars (smile...u know I love you man). I am screaming expletives. Somehow I miss him by about a foot.
As I come around him he gives me this sheepish "I'm sorry" look. Talk about a massive squirt of adrenaline. Ten minutes later I am stopped at a turn signal waiting to make my left hand turn. I check the traffic and my line through the corner. Since I was second vehicle back I decided to go around the vehicle in front of me on the outside of a two laner heading east. As I got to the apex of my line and started to lean the bike harder the front tire hit some sand that I couldn't see from the stop light. Front tire washes out and regrips about 5 feet or so later. What the heck did I do to get two adrenaline squirts within 15 minutes of each other? Remember to check britches when home!
Experience has taught all of us still alive on high powered bikes to cover the brake at all times when in traffic. If I had not I would have been buggered. Maybe not dead at 35 mph...But buggered for sure.
Always cover that brake...saved my sorry arse...
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