Originally Posted by Andrea Kowalczyk

What my boyfriend failed to add-in in the paraphrased original post, aside from capitalization haha, which didn’t seem to matter at the time but apparently it does is that I was riding with a friend who stalled out in front of me which was not known at the time and to avoid running into her I cut it way to fast on gravel and that’s why the bike was laid down originally. The second time it was laid down because in the 20 mile ride from previous destination to the next, it rode fine. When I jumped on it from there is when the fun happened. Started up great, started riding and about 5 minutes in my speed was decelerating when I hadn’t intentionally done so and when I went to pull over to check it out it re-accelerated and the only option I could think of at the time to stop was to lay it back down which is what I did or go into a cement wall, the intersection or a poll so I feel like I choose the best option I could have in that scenario and was not seriously injuried.


I have already taken the class and I don’t know about other classes but how to handle gravel was not included nor what to do when your throttle does the opposite of what it is supposed to.

Thank you for the the helpful tips from the ones that answered the original question.

Originally Posted by Andrea Kowalczyk

when I went to pull over to check it out it re-accelerated and the only option I could think of at the time to stop was to lay it back down which is what I did or go into a cement wall, the intersection or a poll so I feel like I choose the best option I could have in that scenario and was not seriously injuried.