Like most right handed people I favor leaning left. Tonight coming home from my GF's in San Diego, I ate up some chicken strip on my right... visable to the very edge. Not intentional at all, but rather to save myself from eating "it". Glad it was the chicken strip instead. Pass the BBQ sauce and hot mustard please.
My fault and lesson to you all. It was a 120 mile right home from San Diego. Average speed on the 5 freeway north to 405 Fwy north, to 605 Fwy North to 10 fwy east, was about 95 mph. Taking my exit after about 1.5 hour of that and I came too hot into the right bank of the exit. Exit was posted for a tight 15 mph, in retrospect I went in doing about 35 mph. Though not that high of a speed, I saw the divider curb on the left coming up fast. That curb is there to divider traffic coming off and those going on the 10 fwy going west. Leeeeeaned it to the right hard, no brake, down shifted one more to 2nd and lightly throttle out. Came out with front wheel just about 2 to 3 inches to the left.
Further reflection I know what I did wrong before I was put om that situation to do it right. I got too used to the average speed of 95 to 100 mph, splitting lanes, etc... It didn't feel that I was going that fast going into the turn, but obviously I was a bit hot. After about 1.5 hour of constant "high" speed (if I got unlucky enough to have gotten pulled over for it), my sensory perception of speed was attenuated, or numbed.
I will keep in mind to obey the posted speed limit of the freeway exits next time I go for another long ride at a average "high" speed. Luckily this lesson didn't cost me anything but some rubber from my rightside chicken strip. I rather eat that then eat "it" running into that curb. Hopefully, it maybe helpful to some of you that don't already know and suffer the same kind of sensory "numbness"/"dumbness" as I did
I'll post some pics of my right side rear tire later in the daytime.
BusaHaya, that skinny right side chicken strip you saw on my rear tire just got thinner.
My fault and lesson to you all. It was a 120 mile right home from San Diego. Average speed on the 5 freeway north to 405 Fwy north, to 605 Fwy North to 10 fwy east, was about 95 mph. Taking my exit after about 1.5 hour of that and I came too hot into the right bank of the exit. Exit was posted for a tight 15 mph, in retrospect I went in doing about 35 mph. Though not that high of a speed, I saw the divider curb on the left coming up fast. That curb is there to divider traffic coming off and those going on the 10 fwy going west. Leeeeeaned it to the right hard, no brake, down shifted one more to 2nd and lightly throttle out. Came out with front wheel just about 2 to 3 inches to the left.
Further reflection I know what I did wrong before I was put om that situation to do it right. I got too used to the average speed of 95 to 100 mph, splitting lanes, etc... It didn't feel that I was going that fast going into the turn, but obviously I was a bit hot. After about 1.5 hour of constant "high" speed (if I got unlucky enough to have gotten pulled over for it), my sensory perception of speed was attenuated, or numbed.
I will keep in mind to obey the posted speed limit of the freeway exits next time I go for another long ride at a average "high" speed. Luckily this lesson didn't cost me anything but some rubber from my rightside chicken strip. I rather eat that then eat "it" running into that curb. Hopefully, it maybe helpful to some of you that don't already know and suffer the same kind of sensory "numbness"/"dumbness" as I did
I'll post some pics of my right side rear tire later in the daytime.
BusaHaya, that skinny right side chicken strip you saw on my rear tire just got thinner.
