Not recent, thank God, but pretty spectacular or potentially spectacular: 1. Left edge, but the same; this circa 1972: taking the long (20 instead of 7 miles) route to school, coming fast down a hill with a rightward curve (I on the left as law in ex-British colonies). Attention wandered, front tire went onto the dirt verge, I panicked, grabbed the *front* brake, and did a very quick 180 -- a vertical one. The entire compound of me-and-bke flipped vertically without any intervening contact with Nother Earth until the rear wheel contacted what must have been the edge of the asphalt (can't say "pavement" as this term in British means sidewalk, and there was no sidewalk) that stood above the dirt verge about 2". I was wholly unscathed (no damned cycling kit, just jeans, t-shirt, Safari Boots, and a lot of luck) -- not even road rash or scratches on my hands, but the flip brought the bike down hard on the rear wheel and put a big V of a dent in it.
There was a house nearby, so I went and asked the major domo/butler/footman/cook/sweeper/whatever to use the phone, which he permitted (the owners, probably Brits, were out). Reliable Old Mom brought the Datsun 1600 and took me the rest of the way to school. 2. Circa 1991: bombing at well over 20 mph down Sara Road here in Rio Rancho, NM on a cold day after a heavy snowfall, my rear wheel got into the remnants of sand spread by the City. Not a 2-wheel drift, but the back swung out a good 30* before I, or rather Luck or Providence, put it back on clean asphalt, where it caught and jerked me back into a manageable line. 3. Just 2-3 years ago, at 30+ down a very steep hill at a tightish curve on the Fargo with 60+ Big Apples at very low pressures, I decided to trust the Force and ignore my ignominious downhill handling skills. At the apex of the turn, the rear sidewall decided to flex and the rear jerked suddenly to the right; again, Fate/Fortune/Providence zapped me with just the right body english and I was saved from what could have been a very serious accident indeed (I was very, very close to hitting the curb/kerb at 30-35 mph.) On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Jim Bronson <[email protected]> wrote: > Why is it that when you get too close to the right edge of the road, it's > hard to pull it back? > > I had a little brief off road excursion on one of my regular routes > yesterday. I was too close to the edge, and it just started going over, so > I went with it rather than fight it. Thankfully the ditch was smooth and > grassy, and the beer bottle I ran over didn't break. I was able to compose > myself and pull back on the road without damage to man or machine. But it > could have been much worse had conditions been different. I was probably > going around 20 at the time. > > Ok - let's not do that again anytime soon :) > > > -- > Keep the metal side up and the rubber side down! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- *FOR A RESUME THAT GETS YOU AN INTERVIEW, CONTACT:* http://resumespecialties.com/index.html [email protected] http://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ Certified Resume Writer Albuquerque, NM -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
