bottom twitching
Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2017 6:43 pm
Today has been very eventful, went to Machynlleth on my RT, to a repair shop to get a zip fixed on one of my motorbike jackets, fixed at a bargain price Then down to Aberystwyth for an ice cream on the front.
Riding back up the awesome A44, the heat, from being in the top box, had caused the buttons on my bluetooth to detach .... so they're somewhere along the A44 :'(
Turning off the A44 towards Llanidloes and onto the mountain road past Llyn Clwydog to Machynlleth. (the road we used last year on the WW .... the one where we all stopped for the awesome viewpoint looking over
At one point on the little mountain road I noticed a tractor and its driver to the left in a lay by, positioned myself a bit more to the right "just in case" and noticed that there appeared to be a wide stream crossing the road. Didn't really pay it much heed as I was only doing 25 mph due to it being a small road.
Then all hell broke lose, automatic stability lights flashing all over the dash bike lurching all over the place while the fancy traction control electronics did their thing and dealt with the problem...... the problem was .... well what I thought was water wasn't, it was hydraulic oil from the tractor in the layby.... fucking tractor driver didn't think to warn us his tractor had dumped its entire hydraulic load over the road!!!
Walked back to have a "chat" with the tractor driver, he said sorry he was on the phone trying to get help. He seemed surprised when I suggested warning people would be a good idea. Anyway I called the police, to make it safe, who we passed while travelling down to Machynlleth.
I'm fairly sure it was little or no input from me that saved the bike from disaster, and that it was the electronics that saved me and the bike.
Oh and on the way home while travelling through the "Mach Loop" there where two Apache attack choppers either side of me at speed
Riding back up the awesome A44, the heat, from being in the top box, had caused the buttons on my bluetooth to detach .... so they're somewhere along the A44 :'(
Turning off the A44 towards Llanidloes and onto the mountain road past Llyn Clwydog to Machynlleth. (the road we used last year on the WW .... the one where we all stopped for the awesome viewpoint looking over
At one point on the little mountain road I noticed a tractor and its driver to the left in a lay by, positioned myself a bit more to the right "just in case" and noticed that there appeared to be a wide stream crossing the road. Didn't really pay it much heed as I was only doing 25 mph due to it being a small road.
Then all hell broke lose, automatic stability lights flashing all over the dash bike lurching all over the place while the fancy traction control electronics did their thing and dealt with the problem...... the problem was .... well what I thought was water wasn't, it was hydraulic oil from the tractor in the layby.... fucking tractor driver didn't think to warn us his tractor had dumped its entire hydraulic load over the road!!!
Walked back to have a "chat" with the tractor driver, he said sorry he was on the phone trying to get help. He seemed surprised when I suggested warning people would be a good idea. Anyway I called the police, to make it safe, who we passed while travelling down to Machynlleth.
I'm fairly sure it was little or no input from me that saved the bike from disaster, and that it was the electronics that saved me and the bike.
Oh and on the way home while travelling through the "Mach Loop" there where two Apache attack choppers either side of me at speed