05-05-2015, 05:57 AM
(05-05-2015, 01:29 AM)offroadfx4_imp Wrote: This hits close to home for me....the only time I've ever been down was when I hit some sand in the middle of an intersection in a city at slow speed.
The remarkable thing I remember was the quickness I went down...there was no time to correct or even think about saving it....I was just down in a blink of an eye.
For the longest time, I would only accelerate hard once I had the bike straightened back up from a lean...still probably not a bad idea...not sure if would make any difference, but I always thought if I hit something loose while in a straight line, I would have a better chance of saving it than while leaning.
That's what spooked me. Boom! Huge loss of front end while banking in a corner - a split seconds of attempted control and the next thing I remember is being dragged down the road by the bike. No warning, no starting to slide. Good one second, down the next.
The frame slider keep damage down to $500 to restore the bike and riding gear allowed me to ride within a week.
Then the weather turned 90 degrees and muggy and I turned around and dropped off my warm weather jacket and continued in a tee shirt.
DOES ANYONE MAKE A HOT WEATHER JACKET? Does such a thing exist? Being miserably hot on a bike is not my idea of fun.