01-24-2017, 09:41 AM
And to add to the precautionary advice above: If the road pavement has been dry for a long period of time, the pavement could have oil and other residue deposits in the surface voids, especially at intersections and in heavily traveled streets. A sudden rain will bring up these residues making the sliding friction coefficient between your tires and the pavement surfaces near zero (or, its gonna be danged slippery!). What I usually do is to pull of the road during this situation (hopefully under a bridge) allowing the rain to wash off this slippery residue before I proceed.
When I was a yute (New York lingual here), I was tearing up a 4 lane street in a town on my hot Honda CA95. A sudden rain storm happened and traffic came to a stop. I hit the brakes on my 16 HP crotch rocket and I began to slide. Luckily, the CA95 was small enough that I was able to steer/coax it between rows of cars without hitting anything or falling down! As ferret said, leave plenty of room ahead of you.
Also , avoid wet piles of leaves raked at the edge of streets. That story did not turn out well for me and my broken collarbone.
When I was a yute (New York lingual here), I was tearing up a 4 lane street in a town on my hot Honda CA95. A sudden rain storm happened and traffic came to a stop. I hit the brakes on my 16 HP crotch rocket and I began to slide. Luckily, the CA95 was small enough that I was able to steer/coax it between rows of cars without hitting anything or falling down! As ferret said, leave plenty of room ahead of you.
Also , avoid wet piles of leaves raked at the edge of streets. That story did not turn out well for me and my broken collarbone.