Yup. She nipped at me, but didn't quite bite me.
It was enough for me to find a place to pull off and then walk the corner to see where I screwed up - and I may have dropped an inner tire off the pavement. I couldn't really tell. But, it happened pretty much the exact same time I hit the gas to start exiting the corner. It was quite accurately the apex.
All things considered, I didn't really do much of anything wrong. Even if I dropped a tire into the sand, the corner was covered in small stones and sand - kinda like driving on marbles. I made it a point to hit the corner a 2nd time and that time navigated it just fine.
Someone should go out there with a broom and sweep the gravel off the street. Imagine someone going through that corner on a motorcycle
LOL There's not much chance of that happening any time soon - though it is a routed highway. They may eventually make it through with a sweeper, but it'll be a while before they do and, on top of that, they probably won't. Some years they do it, some years they don't.
I entered the corner at maybe 50 mph, tapped the brakes to scrub some speed, and hit the gas at the apex. The next thing I knew I was looking backwards over my shoulder hoping to keep it on the pavement and hoping nobody was coming in the other direction that would have forced me onto the shoulder. Nobody was coming, so I didn't need to put it on the shoulder.
Ah well...
Like I said, it nipped at me. It didn't quite bite me, 'cause I kept it rubber side down and in between the ditches.
If you play with wild animals long enough and they'll eventually try to bite you. Amusingly, this happened two days after I mentioned it was the kind of car that will bite you. You'd think I'd have heeded my own warning and been a bit more cautious in the corner, but no... No...
No, I was making good time so threw caution to the wind. No, I didn't listen to my own word of caution...
Yes, you did tell me that was likely to happen. Excellent foreshadowing! It's like I'm reading a novel.
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