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Originally posted by Honclfibr
I was just making a joke, I didn't mean to chastise Chris for his accident today, from what I hear he's a very accomplished and cautious rider. Most of us are guilty of riding over our heads from time to time and accidents happen. I'm just glad to hear he's ok and will be recovering to get back on the bike and ride another day.
With that said, I've seen very few single bike street accidents that happen at low speed. Most single bike street accidents can be traced back to one thing: overdriving your sight line. I've followed some extremely accomplished riders on the street who could play some good tricks with deep apexing and covering the brakes into the curves, but in the end it's a diminishing returns game. Seems like there's only so fast you can ride on the street with all the variables that can be waiting around every curve before surviving the next bend starts to require luck as well as skill. Take enough turns like that, especially on unknown roads, and you need a guardian angel as well as a tuned bike and a cool head.
We took a good route today, with a group of riders and bikes of varying ability, had a good time hit some nice curves and I don't believe there were any "ass-pucker" moments for anyone involved. That's my favorite kind of street ride right there and I hope we can get together and do it again, thanks Gonz and Alfred and Mazdagrl (and Stoneman for the route suggestions, next time maybe you can join up for a road or two) it was a good day
and im joking as well.
by low speed accident i mean you run into something, a moose for example (well you have tobe in ME i guess), not single bike.
and with that said, use common sense. i know i don't always have it.
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