Sooooo I'm heading back home after being tortured as Anachorism's baby shower.. oh, Anachorism is about to have his first offspring devil child, I'm mean baby, a girl... anyway back on topic... and it's raining like a beast, I turn a corner and the front goes over a manhole cover and slides off of it and grabs on pavement.  was the feeling in my stomach.

I usually avoid those things, but just wasn't thinking. Any one else avoid those things like the plague?

I avoid them when I see 'em. That was close. Was it on the Monster or ST2?

Quote from: koko64 on June 17, 2012, 02:25:41 AM
I avoid them when I see 'em. That was close. Was it on the Monster or ST2?

the Monster 

Oh man, considering all the work you put into that bike, and WDW coming up, that was real close.

What's worse than that is when they dig a long trench in the road and slap on those huge metal plates with a bit of asphalt. its slippery when you go over them but bumpy as s*#t beside.

That was close...and yes the weather sucks..
Klaus

I guess I'm fortunate, a saved front end wash.

The instructor that I did my motorcycle course with gave us some good advice when it comes to man hole covers. He told us we should be looking to avoid them in the dry then when we find ourselves riding in the rain it will be second nature to ride around them. Works with the white lines on pedestrian crossings and such. In saying that there will always be those sneaky man hole covers that are hard to spot.

Around here, they painted the manhole covers with some kind of rubberish grit in some spots.  I wish they'd do it everywhere. 

Any metal stuff in the road like that is best avoided. Manhole covers, gratings, the big slabs the cover work in progress. Dry they are a lot more slippery than tarmac... wet it might as well be ice for a bike. Hell, I've nearly bit it a few times on foot when crossing over a grating in the sidewalk.

So yeah, I avoid then like the hazard they are!

I also try to avoid the "road snakes" (lines of tar used to fix cracking pavement or used to outline new asphalt patches) on wet or dry roads.  

Had a similar experience where the rear tire kicked out in a turn while going over a road snake then grabbed asphalt.

Don't want to imagine what it felt like to have the front tire slide out. Glad to hear you stayed upright.

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