Be careful in the rain!

[fortyhourdays]

Well I almost pulled a pants on the ground move today turning left from a stop sign in the rain.  I wasn't giving her much throttle, but I must have hit an oily patch or something because my rear tire broke loose and I had to give her some opposite lock to keep her upright.  Thankfully I was hardly leaned into the turn so nothing bad came of it other than a lesson to take it even easier in the rain.   Oh, and the camera did happen to be rolling

[NightHawked]

Nice save. Did you observe the "10 minute rule"? Oh and how did the rain gear work?

[fortyhourdays]

Did you observe the "10 minute rule"?

It had been raining for several hours.  But I think the water doesn't drain off well in that spot.

[skramer360]

Yesterday, I was on my way home after a hard rain. There is a brand new patch of asphalt on my way home that had never been rained on (it hadn't rained for several weeks). I was extremely cautious and saw white oily crap all over the road. 

[ariwhiteboy]

Those are always fun...glad you kept the rubber side down. 

[Andiiboi]

Felt my rear tire wanting to run away from me a few times today, once enough to make my heart pound for a bit.  I recently changed out my dry-rotting, cracking, year 2000 front tire; I don't expect the rear to be much newer (no sidewall cracking last time I looked), but I'm not going out in the rain to take a look at it.

What I should do is get off my haunches and change to tire already (I have a new one sitting under my bed) and while I'm at it, lube those splines with that moly I bought a while back.