Had a spill

secretsam

Flippin' rain, riding down a (thankfully empty) road yesterday morning, coming up to corner, brake...and back wheel goes completely, slides sideways, can't catch it and the whole lot goes over, end up facing the way I came

Thankfully no serious damage to self or bike, bumps and bruises plus shaken confidence

Will take it easier in future...am still not used to the Sirrus' brakes, clearly... :oops:

janm399

Same thing happened to me a while ago. I was just turning to my house and the front wheel slipped on wet and oily road. Before I knew it, I was skidding sideways. Luckily I was doing only about 15 km/h at that time and there was no traffic. I still did the whole cat-style "you just didn't see me do that" manouvre

-- Jan

Gussio

The roads are *so* greasy at the moment - almost had an incident myself last night, but was nothing worse than a skid. Developing an almost pathological fear of manhole covers and road markings!

Glad that you didn't damage yourself.

Clever Pun

I saw someone go over on the leaves just outside the north side of the greenwich tunnel yesterday... looked like she was going straight next thing I heard was quite an unpleasant thumping noise

I suspect it was the little metal ridge there caught her out

since it's got wet I've generally had the turning circle of an arctic lorry

el_presidente

Clever Pun wrote:

since it's got wet I've generally had the turning circle of an arctic lorry

Those arctic lorries are awesome

http://www.history.com/minisites/iceroadtruckers

ash68

Pleased you and the bike are ok SecretSam.As mentioned the roads do seem slippy at the moment. And that's before the snow and ice get here