Safety Reminder: What Will You Find Around The Bend
There's a safety lesson here. Be prepared for what you might find around the corner. In this case, the rider didn't find a pothole, a downed tree, or a stalled vehicle. He rounded a corner and found himself facing a radar gun.
His reaction was his mistake. See what he did, and decide now how you're going to handle it when it happens to you.
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That is a good post. Last year I was going down the main road of our neighborhood. It is 30mph but feels like it should be about 45mph. As I came around a hill with a slight curve doing around 45mph, there was a cop sitting there. A bad maneuver could have caused a problem. I just eased off the gas and looked at him and shook my head. He let me go. :-) Sometimes it is just too late to do anything to prevent a ticket, and if you try, it will bite you like this guy.
ReplyDeleteI think that the "startle response" is particularly tough to recover from. In this rider's case he was startled by the cop. For me, recently I was riding and had a bee land on my chin. Without thinking, I swatted it off. To do so, I took both hands off the handlebars. I was in traffic, and the car in front of me was stopping. I managed to get both hands back on the grips and get the bike stopped before I rear-ended the car in front of me. After it was done I was thinking, "What the heck was I thinking -- taking both hands off the bars like that." The answer, of course, is that I wasn't thinking, I was acting with a reflex or a startle response.
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