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I'm riding home from work yesterday, the roads are wet as a pretty good thunder storm had just passed overhead. I'm taking it easy as the roads are a bit slick.
At the 93/28 interchange there is a big 2 lane rotary. I'm comming around at mabye 20-30mph, and am leaned over. I look carefully at my right where two lanes are merging with me. The first lane stops, the second lane goes, no problem they have plenty of room I'll tuck in behind this lady in a red car.
Then for some inexplicable reason the lady in the red car spots me comming in at about 8 o'clock and stops dead in the middle of the rotary. I'm leaned over on wet pavement, and have no choice but to hit the brakes, my rear end starts slipping out like it was on ice. Ironically this helps me a bit as when the rear catchs I'm pointed more to the left and am able to slip by the left side of the car in the same lane.
I can not figure what she was thinking, mabye she didn't see me at first and when she spotted me she pannicked and didn't realize how far into the roatary she had floated. So in some weird way she was trying to yeild to me???
We're always going to have clueless drivers, but I'm more concerned with my reaction to the unexpected. Did I really have to hit the brakes? Could I have leaned further, not sure. For certain I hit the rear brake too hard, and made a second mistake by letting up on it too quickly. If I'd been going faster, I'd probably have high sided. I was certainly short on traction, wet and already leaned. I had fewer options than I otherwise would have. I'm feeling a bit lucky, I'll go change my underwear now.