Potholes and Other Riding Dangers

[GoldOxide_imp]

Fortunately, compared to sitting in cages, the CB handles around potholes successfully and much more frequently.

What really sucks are the sunken "man hole" covers that suddenly appear from beneath the cage in front of you. No time to avoid, the best I usually do is just stand-up for the [not] fun.

You are following too close. IF a man hole cover suprises you, so could a bumper, a muffler, a ladder, a skid, a dead animal... You get my drift.

2 good road rules.. Don't over run your headlights at night, or your ability to make a correction to avoid an object in the road, day or night.

You are following too close. IF a man hole cover suprises you, so could a bumper, a muffler, a ladder, a skid, a dead animal... You get my drift.

2 good road rules.. Don't over run your headlights at night, or your ability to make a correction to avoid an object in the road, day or night.
Following too close was not an issue here, but your suggestion is still valid. There are just sunken service lids that are hard to avoid mostly due to issues like: Other vehicles cutting into your buffer space, other pot holes nearby that take their share of attention, drivers who drive with their brakes, but there is nowhere else to go, and so on. When the surprise comes, it comes and it must be handled.

Been riding for four decades. Seen pretty well the spectrum of things to be seen. These pot holes are nuisance, but very common in the urban jungle setting. The worse obstacle I ever had to deal with was a tractor trailer tire blow and steel belted rubber scrap flying everywhere on the freeway. I was riding an '84 CB750 Nighthawk S at the time. A minor counter-steer, but the biggie response was ducking my head. Surrounding cars weren't so lucky as they had to pull off in my rear view mirrors. I believe I saved my neck from severe trauma.

The most inconvenient (but not dangerous) situation I saw in front of me was another solo rider riding parallel to a tractor trailer carrying pigs. I watched from the next lane as he got sprayed on from one of the animals. It was a soaking, and the rider was startled, but did manage to zip ahead.