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.
It didn't quite bite me. It just tried to. Also, I was going pretty slow by the time the ass end kicked out, so it probably wouldn't have made Biff a widow. Either way, it snapped around before I had the chance to catch it - and I'm pretty speedy at that sort of thing. Hell, I even knew what was going to happen so turned my head to look over my shoulder.
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