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Originally Posted by Jiggles
When will this thread become NSFW as long as Alex is on percocet?
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I guess you'll have to be the judge of that. Someone let me know when I get out of line (and deviantly funny!)
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Originally Posted by antiant
I'm wondering, you may have been kicking yourself for not taking the 300, but if I recall... isn't that your wife's bike? Technically she'd be kicking you?  |
You're probably right! She's a trooper. She came all the way out to pick me up, which was quite a trek. Couldn't find someone to take the kids, so she had a 5 year old and a 1 year old in the back of the car the whole time. 5 year old apparently gets sick and throws up on windy roads, we discovered for the first time yesterday, so she had to stop quite often to comfort him as he was throwing up all over himself the whole time. Tough day for Annie.
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Originally Posted by azn370z
Good thing you're not seriously hurt. Did your bmw have traction control?
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Yes, it has TCS. I've found that it works quite well, but it's not foolproof. I think I've become so confident in it that I tend to not worry about the throttle at all on that bike, and it came back to bite me. When it lost grip on the rear in the gravel, the bike was leaned over a bit. Not much, but a bit. So it spun up so quickly, and got the bike out of shape so quickly, that even if the TCS kicked in, it was evidently too late to rein things back in with the limited traction already.