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Just been for a ride and the Autumn leaves are starting to fall.
Newbies remember, LEAVES + MOISTURE = VERY VERY SLIPPERY.
Take care.
John 675
04-10-07, 03:50 PM
Just been for a ride and the Autumn leaves are starting to fall.
Newbies remember, LEAVES + MOISTURE = VERY VERY SLIPPERY.
Take care.
+1 watch out for the back end kicking out on you :sad:
+1 watch out for the back end kicking out on you :sad:
and if its your first winter commuting, braking whilst filtering on those wet white lines when someone changes lane without bothering to look infront of you.
:smt068:rolleyes:
Bluepete
04-10-07, 04:19 PM
Oh, and watch out for the sun going down, it will get dark.....;)
John 675
04-10-07, 04:20 PM
Oh, and watch out for the sun going down, it will get dark.....;)
does blind you a bit though... ;)
As above.But dont you just love those manhole covers that are right on your riding line.NOT
Oh, and watch out for the sun going down, it will get dark.....;)
No need for sarcasm!
If someone had told me when I was sixteen about bright sunny days in Autumn with tree lined shaded bends it would have saved me a bent frame.
Bluepete
04-10-07, 09:04 PM
Darwins theory of evolution in action
-Ralph-
04-10-07, 09:55 PM
No need for sarcasm!
If someone had told me when I was sixteen about bright sunny days in Autumn with tree lined shaded bends it would have saved me a bent frame.
Ah, but would you have listened? And would you be so careful in those shaded bends now if you had never bent that frame? Sometimes newbies need to crash! :shock: .....
....but for christs sakes do it in a manner where you can get up unaided, pick up the bike, then call yourself a pr1ck.
Luckypants
04-10-07, 10:00 PM
Well I was having fun on the acorns and hazelnuts behaving like marbles under the tyres last night. :(
metalmonkey
04-10-07, 10:02 PM
Leaves, i was riding home in May that week where it rained very day....I put my foot coming to stop in traffic nearly fell off:( I looked down there was a leave on the road that was soaked becasue of the rain.
Nearly taken out by a leaf! Yup then do make you slip!
DanAbnormal
04-10-07, 10:32 PM
And would you be so careful in those shaded bends
Now you are talking about micro-climates. Damn roadcraft book, at least I remembered some of it. :)
Just wait until January then with ice on the roads, I try not to filter then as it gets very slippery.
Well I was having fun on the acorns and hazelnuts behaving like marbles under the tyres last night. :(
and was there a squirrel chasing them?:D
Darwins theory of evolution in action
the missing links are all caged in white vans so beware of them too:D
A patch of leaves on the road could hide something much more sinister than rain water...
A copy of David Blunt's latest album!
[quote=Ashy;1306313]A patch of leaves on the road could hide something much more sinister than rain water...
EXCELLENT POINT.
Good luck to Lewis Hamilton on Sunday in China.
the missing links are all caged in white vans so beware of them too:D
Hey.how rude!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love my white van
Hey.how rude!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love my white van
hey you are on the wrong forum then.........pmsl:rolleyes:
JediGoat
05-10-07, 09:29 PM
Well I was having fun on the acorns and hazelnuts behaving like marbles under the tyres last night. :(
Were you riding over a flapjack? :confused:
ethariel
05-10-07, 11:46 PM
When I was living in Fort William, every year for about 2 or 3 weeks (depends on the wind....) the only way to Inverness was the bus, a good 80% of the 77 mile road there is treelined.
I tried it on the bike the first year for a pre winter servce, when i got home some 30 mins later it took a good 10 mins for the suction effect to release so i could get off the bloody bike.
Colin
(80, dry road, nice corner, leaves everywhere, 5 seconds of oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god !!!!! and a quick U Turn home)
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