Do gravel tracks count as "road"?
Crashed twice. In 1990, both on the same day on the same "road", on my RD250/350LC. The gravel track to the T.V. transmitter on the North side of the Manawatu gorge had just been thickly re-metalled, and I lost it on a downward sloped right-hand bend. Partly because my girlfriend (now Wife) kept slidng forward and I was getting pushed up onto the tank. Second off was at bottom of that "road", came 'round a corner to find a car stopped right in the middle of the track, with both front doors open. Nowhere to go. Brakes, deep gravel, bars already bent from earlier off, down we go again.
Learned a whole lot of lessons that day.
Measure once, cut twice. Practice makes perfect.
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