Re: Speaking about leg protection.

[Rich Weyand <weyand@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 05:22 PM 12/9/99 -0500, Bill Flowers wrote:

>That's OK.  I can't deny that I've only been riding less than 6 months. 
>Statistically I fit the model: only a few months riding, still getting
>used to a new bike, late in the day, close to home on the way home, etc.
>
>The mathematician in me says I was an accident waiting to happen.  And
>it did.

You did the same thing I did, and which most new riders do (I'm not new,
but back to riding after several years), and that is that you drove it
like a cage.  In the van, I have no problem making the dueling turn into
dual lanes, but I won't do it on the bike.  My lowside on the ST was 
hitting loose gravel on a driveway into a strip mall, and trying to steer 
and brake at the same time.  Not enough adhesion to go around.


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