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Sounds like too much rear brake. Should have just eased off and the bike would have straightened back up. Then you could have turned around at the next intersection. Glad you made it safely.
Sounds like too much rear brake. Should have just eased off and the bike would have straightened back up. Then you could have turned around at the next intersection. Glad you made it safely.
Tried that and it wasn't pretty, especially if the bike is into a deep rear slide and the rear wheel has been locked up for more than a second or so. Ol' Airboater was very smart to hold into the rear brake, even if he had to lay it down all the way. Wish I would've done that on my bike when it let go on top of the packed down snow last January.
This is a total recipe for a classic 'High Side' accident and I'd rather lay it down and keep it into the rear brake, than experience another 'High Side', because I found out the hard way, that once that locked up rear wheel regains traction and starts rolling, the gyroscopic effect of that wheel INSTANTLY forces the bike upright. Even at 15 mph, it's a very violent manuever and you become a 'Lawn Dart' in the blink of an eye. It's so fast, that you end up sliding on your face and wondering 'what happened?' and then 'This sucks'.
I learned the bad way from mountain biking all these years, to let off the rear brake. Works good on a 25 pound bike, that's easily countered, but bad on something approaching 700-900 pounds!
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