I’ve forgotten about plenty of situations where things could’ve gone wrong but didn’t but I can still vividly remember accidentally hitting myself in the dick with my bike handle.
(Since I know someone will want to know: I misjudged my speed and the impact a wet wheel had on my braking power. When I noticed I was going too fast to take a corner I braked and the front brake locked the wheel immediately. Inertia did the rest.)
That and a (thankfully merely scary) run-in with aquaplaning a few years later taught me to be wary of wet driving conditions, especially of braking in them.
In my case I wasn’t paying enough attention to where water had pooled in the tracks cars had worn into the road. Gentle taps on the brake handles were enough to decouple my scooter’s wheels from the road and give me a two kilometer braking distance. Yikes.
Getting hurt a little bit is very useful.
I’ve forgotten about plenty of situations where things could’ve gone wrong but didn’t but I can still vividly remember accidentally hitting myself in the dick with my bike handle.
(Since I know someone will want to know: I misjudged my speed and the impact a wet wheel had on my braking power. When I noticed I was going too fast to take a corner I braked and the front brake locked the wheel immediately. Inertia did the rest.)
That and a (thankfully merely scary) run-in with aquaplaning a few years later taught me to be wary of wet driving conditions, especially of braking in them.
That last bit is why I think every new driver needs to spend a few hours on a skid pad.
In my case I wasn’t paying enough attention to where water had pooled in the tracks cars had worn into the road. Gentle taps on the brake handles were enough to decouple my scooter’s wheels from the road and give me a two kilometer braking distance. Yikes.
A few years riding a bike will do the same.