there is an element of luck for sure.I rode over the rimutakas for years,every weekend at speeds that i now cant beleive..At the same time i was involved in two motorcycle schools.I was very aware of the road surface,etc.As has been said you can smell the fresh diesel.and i usuually did.But one weekednd when a bus spilt diesel over half the hill(on the other side of the road) i did i nice overtake on a long right hander,but i didnt spot the slick as i crossed back over the centreline after completing the overtake.Lost the front in an instant.None of the others i was with crashed,and i would say that i was at least as observant as them,if not more so.It was the only crash i had on the road over a period of 15yrs or so.At that time i was prolly doing 40 k a year.So there is an element of luck involved.
That was a useful tip there about looking for diesel spills on the first corner as an early warning of potential future spills further along the road. I'll note that down in future.
And guys, stop fighting. A fellow rider seriously hurt himself and you're at each other like wolves over whether or not it was his own fault.
None of the riders went down.
Difficult to see how he could highlight the complete lack of traction any better than by sliding across it. Maybe he could have stopped, got off the bike and demonstrated that you couldn't actually stand on it either...
Again, none of your advice is relevant, and if you'd read the original post you'd discover why. Mind you, if you ever actually read anything you'd discover that the world is full of shit that doesn't involve "riders too focused on one another".
Now why did I bother with all that, eh?
Go soothingly on the grease mud, as there lurks the skid demon
Forger about diesel spills...
Listenig to Cassina makes waterboarding sound like fun....
Opinions are like arseholes: Everybody has got one, but that doesn't mean you got to air it in public all the time....
No - its just not that simple as blaming everything on rider error as is the trend with people usually selling rider training...
The biggest accident I ever had was in my teens when frankly we were riding desperate old shit heaps well outside their design parameters BUT in this case it had fuck all to do with it..
Descending left hander with farm entrance at the apex. My mate was riding 2 up in the left hand track and I was riding the right but behind by a safe margin. Farm track had be re gravelled and it spilled onto the road - he missed it - I didn't - low sided in a flash, didn't even hear the loose gravel rattling on the bike. I rode that road every week back then - was riding on gravel roads regularly and rode dirt bikes. OK - your first thought would be shitty old 6V lights but no - I'm an engineer - my bike had shit hot 12V lights thanks and no we were not going fast and there was even a street lamp - neither of us saw any gravel at all until we picked me out of the ditch...
Point is - even riding sedately - if you are looking through the corner - you are onto some hazards before you are even aware of them!
Weirdest hazard - hitting a truck (think BIG truck) load of horse carrots 2 up with Vicki and luggage on the Guzzi... Thankfully a car or 2 had been over already so it was compressed carrots. I was finding bits of carrot wedged in places for months (no not there - on the bike)
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