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<blockquote data-quote="SacramentoMike" data-source="post: 758962" data-attributes="member: 11508"><p>Nobody could deny the best solution to a problem is to avoid it, but sometimes, there you are. Right in the middle of "the problem."</p><p></p><p>I've busted more than one turn over the years, gone wide, crossed the center line, even crossed right over and ended up on the apron on the wrong side of the road at least once. So far, no oncoming traffic to guarantee I'd never do it (or anything else) again, though. But it's a hell of a bad moment. It's hard to plan for something like that, but I do know what I've done wrong on every one of those occasions: <em>something</em>. Sometimes I've let off the throttle very abruptly. Sometimes I've braked. Sometimes both. The bike straightens out, and there you are, blowing another turn.</p><p></p><p>In theory, I've finally come to understand the best approach is to do NONE of the above, and "ride through" the problem, trusting the bike and your tires, even if the rear tire slides out what feels like six feet, but really is probably not much more than a very few inches. Hard to do when you're panicking like a M-F'er and see your life flashing before your eyes. Too bad we can't practice riding through a bunch of turns on gravel at increasing speeds till we slide the back end, and then get so we can handle it without soiling ourselves, over and over. Well, we <em>could </em>I suppose, but . . . naaahhh. Too many crashes in the learning curve, for one thing.</p><p></p><p>Glad you made it through this one, Sam.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SacramentoMike, post: 758962, member: 11508"] Nobody could deny the best solution to a problem is to avoid it, but sometimes, there you are. Right in the middle of "the problem." I've busted more than one turn over the years, gone wide, crossed the center line, even crossed right over and ended up on the apron on the wrong side of the road at least once. So far, no oncoming traffic to guarantee I'd never do it (or anything else) again, though. But it's a hell of a bad moment. It's hard to plan for something like that, but I do know what I've done wrong on every one of those occasions: [I]something[/I]. Sometimes I've let off the throttle very abruptly. Sometimes I've braked. Sometimes both. The bike straightens out, and there you are, blowing another turn. In theory, I've finally come to understand the best approach is to do NONE of the above, and "ride through" the problem, trusting the bike and your tires, even if the rear tire slides out what feels like six feet, but really is probably not much more than a very few inches. Hard to do when you're panicking like a M-F'er and see your life flashing before your eyes. Too bad we can't practice riding through a bunch of turns on gravel at increasing speeds till we slide the back end, and then get so we can handle it without soiling ourselves, over and over. Well, we [I]could [/I]I suppose, but . . . naaahhh. Too many crashes in the learning curve, for one thing. Glad you made it through this one, Sam. [/QUOTE]
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