I decided about half two that I would go for a ride, picked a route that would take about and hour and a half.
Weather wasn't great here this morning, raining until about midday and since then, the wind has picked up. Most of the roads around me have dried pretty well with the wind so I decided to go for it.
So off up the A712 I went. Road was dry to begin with, nothing much interesting, not much traffic on it. I did the first section of twisties, again, nothing to report. I came to the next set of twisties, the road was wet at this point, like properly wet. I was taking it nice and steady, came into a left hander but on the exit there was diesel all over the road! I didn't see it until it was too late and the bike just went into this mad tankslapper!!
It threw me onto the opposing carraigeway and towards a steep drop of a banking with lots of pine trees. I started looking at the trees thinking, Oh no....this is going to hurt...but then I just started shouting at myself "LOOK AT THE ROAD, NOT THE TREES! LOOK AT THE ROAD, NOT THE TREES!" And somehow, I recovered it.
I pulled into the next available layby and got off. could hardly get my gloves off I was shaking soo much! I went another 5 miles or so up the road and then decided to come home. What a slow ride home it was....
Anyway, got me thinking...what should you actually do in that situation? Apart from looking where you actually want to go, the only other concious thing I did was keep throttle steady, thinking if I lost power I might lowside and if I added power I might high side. I have no idea if that was the right thing to do or not...