11-21-2017, 11:44 AM
Sorry to hear about your crash!
My biggest worry is hitting something in a turn that instantly reduces friction causing me to crash.
Intersections are notorious for sand but oil is also a dangerous hazard.
Even on the "Dragon" and other blind curves, I'm more worried about grass clippings, sand, oil etc than I am about my ability or the ability of on coming traffic to be in their lane.
I even think about someone throwing out a cup of drink....doesn't take much to reduce the coefficient of friction to zero.
But I guess this "fear" comes back to the only time I've ever been down.... on my 1973 CB 350, 45 years ago at an intersection on sand. Like you said, down in an instant, zero time to react.
My biggest worry is hitting something in a turn that instantly reduces friction causing me to crash.
Intersections are notorious for sand but oil is also a dangerous hazard.
Even on the "Dragon" and other blind curves, I'm more worried about grass clippings, sand, oil etc than I am about my ability or the ability of on coming traffic to be in their lane.
I even think about someone throwing out a cup of drink....doesn't take much to reduce the coefficient of friction to zero.
But I guess this "fear" comes back to the only time I've ever been down.... on my 1973 CB 350, 45 years ago at an intersection on sand. Like you said, down in an instant, zero time to react.