Braking in the wet

[TOTO]

practice , practice , practice will save your life some day.

[DarkLord]

Hey TOTO, was good to ride with you, YR64L, Gubb and Gordy the other night - sorry we lost you!! Hopefully we can ride again sometime soon.

Just wanted to share a little experience I had recently -

I was on my way to work and taking the on ramp from the Northcote bridge on to the motorway, heading north. The light was red so I stopped and the road was a bit wet and greasy. When the light went green I accelerated much too hard while turning a little bit so my right wheel spun up and flew out to the right in quite a skid, so I steered into the skid (counter-steering technique you use in a car) and the bike skidded the other way, but with less intensity, so I steered into the skid again and jut kept doing that until I was able to totally straighten up and keep going.

If you do find your rear wheel sliding that is a very effective way to get out of it. It was a bit scary but it worked!

[TOTO]

interesting.

I need to practice that.

Thanks for the tip