Uphill battle....not!

[the Ferret]

and that's why I quantified with " the types of roads and curves I have to ride". We don't have twisty mountain or canyon roads, we have rolling curves, farm fields and river bottoms. where I live is farm country, sail aroind a curve too fast and you might find a slow moving tractor or plow or harvester, or a live or a dead critter. The other day I had a bird day..I kid you not I had guinea fowl, ducks, turkeys and black headed vultures cross the road in front of me... and passed a flock of chickens at the very edge, all on the same day.... but it could have been pigs, goats, cows, deer, raccoons, opossum, or a farm dog as well , all of which I have had to brake for upon occasion. I had a river otter cross the road in front of me the other day I had to swerve for. First one of those I have ever seen. Also seen ladders, wheel barrows, mufflers, bumpers, wheel rims and whole broken down pick up trucks, stopped school buses, propane delivery trucks, old people in decades old Buick's going to or leaving church 20 mph under the speed limit....all around curves you couldn't see until you apexed the curve. Nothing like having to get on the brakes hard while leaned over. And very few passing zones. Get stuck behind a slow moving vehicle and it might be miles before you can legally or safely get around them. We don't have designated race track roads here, nobody sits and videos certain sections for You Tube. There is no gathering place for sport bike riders.(There are bars for the cruiser riders lol).We have to share every road with everyday people every day. Ride too fast here, and something is going to bite you eventually.Ask the 6 MC related deaths we'v had recently, 4 cruiser riders and 2 sport bike riders. Oh yea and lots of enforcement from local cops, County Sheriffs and State Highway Patrols. I see at least one of each on every ride, cruising, sitting, hiding running radar.