Start with three days hilly riding, of about 420km in total, so you are well and truly tired.
Take one wrong turn 5 miles from the final destination, putting you onto a road you know you don't want to be on.
Get to the 12% hill that you know you don't want to ride up (it has a crawler lane for slow vehicles), get off and push for about 1km.
Remount the bike for the other side - which gets to something like a 15% downslope.
Hit something like 63km/h approaching a bend (with the brakes being feathered!) and swap your leading foot.
Cue a massive swoop to the left towards a stone wall, catch that with a massive correction to the right and finally get back to the middle of the road.
That was dammned close to my first ever CB accident and it could have been BAD. No idea what was going through the mind of the driver who had been following me down the hill.
Take one wrong turn 5 miles from the final destination, putting you onto a road you know you don't want to be on.
Get to the 12% hill that you know you don't want to ride up (it has a crawler lane for slow vehicles), get off and push for about 1km.
Remount the bike for the other side - which gets to something like a 15% downslope.
Hit something like 63km/h approaching a bend (with the brakes being feathered!) and swap your leading foot.
Cue a massive swoop to the left towards a stone wall, catch that with a massive correction to the right and finally get back to the middle of the road.
That was dammned close to my first ever CB accident and it could have been BAD. No idea what was going through the mind of the driver who had been following me down the hill.
