Why did I go down this morning?!?!?!
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From: New York
Update for anyone following. I do think it was probably oil. Certainly spooked me a bit and shook my confidence. Left for my 500-mile trip from St. Pete, Fl to Pensacola. Somewhere around mile 40-50 four tornadoes touched down in the area. Now THAT was some spooky riding conditions. Got drenched and pulled off for the worst to pass, then rode another few hundred miles through mostly wet conditions. Being further south in Florida I was not prepared enough for how cold and wet it got. We never dried out, so when the temp dropped to 40 in the Panhandle we were through most of our dry clothes, tired and freezing (shameful since both of us are from up north). We decided to pull off outside of Tallahassee with about 180 miles to go, but because of Hurricane Michael, every hotel within a 30-mile radius was booked up. We stopped at a Hampton Inn next to a Holiday Inn Express around 1 a.m. when we'd had enough. Clerk tried to call every hotel he knew of and only found one 40 minutes away. We decided to set up our sleeping bags on some grass in the shadow of a flatbed 50-foot trailer hauling bulldozers for hurricane clean up. It was an interesting night and morning. I had a great time.
I was actually thinking repaying the favor to her.
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From: Lawrenceville Ga.
Wet leaves? From a dead stop I almost lost a bike trying to leave from the edge of a pile of leaves. Also, on another thread, I vaguely remember a professional trucker cautioning about entering the outside curve of an off ramp. It seems it's relatively common for truck with topped off tanks to slosh a little diesel by centrifugal force as they exit ramps a little faster then prudent. Perhaps the same principle applies at stop signs.
My father was a fleet manager for the largest dairy in Atlanta for 25 yrs...600 + pieces of equipment, 5 divisions. Roll overs were a common problem.
Milk tankers have no slosh baffles for sanitation and cleaning reasons.
I;ve been down 3 times, Gas / too fast for conditions / car in front had no brake lights...broke collar bone...water skiing exactly 6 weeks later!
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Ok, you go down, a sport-bike goes squirrely and a vehicle does a 360 and...you don't go back to check the scene/area. Something's not adding up here. I's day you went down and didn't take a few steps to see what you hit...why not? You were right there...it should've been the 2nd thing on your mind (1st being am I Ok).
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