Well, for the first time ever, my bike hyroplaned on the freeway. I was riding home in the rain yesterday with some big wind gusts. I'm not sure if it was the wind, the water, or a combination, but I was riding in the right side of the lane and within a matter of a split second I was on the white line on the left side of the lane. I'm just glad I hadn't been on the left side already or I would have been run over by a truck. I pulled over at the next underpass until my heartrate went back down.

This ever happen to anyone else? I've ridden quite a bit and never had it happen to me before.

 

Yeah, I've had the wind pretty much change my lane before, that was without any rain or wet road involved.

 

By the grace of God....no.

TKO

 

OMG! Luckily that has never happened to me before. I've been bounced around by the wind before but never a push into another lane. I tend to get clamy and tense when riding in the rain. I went back and consulted with my MSF coursebook again after that. Glad to hear you made it through!

 

I rode into one of those "micro burst" storms a few years back. Despite leaning into the wind at what felt like a 45 degree angle, it STILL pushed me from the far right side of the right lane, to nearly the solid white line on the left side of the left lane.

Hydro planing?? Not yet (knock on wood), and I have ridden in some major downpours. Of course, I slow down too...

 

I've been moved by the wind but never hydroplaned. That would be just like riding on ice and a bike wouldn't stay up very long.

 

"Riding on ice" is a perfect analogy to what it felt like.

 

Another pair of underware lost.......

 

Never hydroplaned on a bike. Wrecked the hell out of a car several years back due to hydroplane.Typically during a hydroplane, you azz end is now you front end in a milisecond. I slammed a concrete divider when my rear end came around and rode that divider for several hundred feet until the car finally stopped. Tore the hell out of the whole passenger side of the car.

I don't know if you in fact hydroplaned, but if so I would say you are extremely lucky.

 

Well, either I hydroplaned, or a bunch of tiny little people picked up my bike and moved it to the other side of the lane in a nanosecond. You can take your pick