Ahhhrg! ~@$% $&* Slippy stuff!
 

Coming accross a roundabout today, didn't see or smell anything out of the ordinary, except a bit of rubber on the road and though that it was just from boy racers.
Roundabout was clear so downshifted just before I went onto it, and oh dear the back ends all over the place, I'm fairly used to this but this time it just carried on sliding around, even with the revs and speed matched.
Just about got round it but ended up right at the edge of my lane about 2 foot away from a white van man, and was about 15' up the road before the back end caught grip again.

No idea what caused this, the road was dry, my downshift wasn't aggressive, didn't put power down etc.
Diesel? Polished tarmac?

Re: Ahhhrg! ~@$% $&* Slippy stuff!
 

Just dampness and dusty roads maybe? or it wasnt far off being cold enough for frost here, and your further up north.

Glad nothing serious came of it anyway.

Re: Ahhhrg! ~@$% $&* Slippy stuff!
 

This was only about an hour ago so no frost or dust, roads were dry too.

I'm thinking it may have been the rubber on the road as there were quite a few tyremarks

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It may well have been disel/oil on the road, the stuff is dam slippy, not sure if rubber on the road would casue that kind of thing I'll try to find out....

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Just really polished surface then i guess:-s

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Lol wheres kwak? Has he been let loose with a giant tube of autosol on the roads of leeds?

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Dunno what might have caused it, sometimes it 'just happens'. Had the front end slide turning in yesterday, nothing on the road to indicate a problem, couldn't smell diesel, just slid. Luckily got grip again as the bike started to go down and it all came right.

Need to hone that ride ESP I reckon.

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Yeah well, got crashbungs and leathers with plenty armor. What more can ye do?

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supermoto styley riding on normal traffic covered roads.... your mr hero!

no seriously good job ya ok... and especially the bike too.
;)

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glad nothing came of it pal, know what you mean by not knowing what caused it.