Dude slipped on a manhole

[Go2Trackdays]

Manhole Cover. I pulled up to this T intersection and there's a pristine F3 waiting to go left. The roundish guy is wearing Tshirt, reg. jeans and shoes. He goes to make the turn and the back end kicked out - he put his foot out and kept it upright... so beware :teeth

 

[Haket]

Manholes are slippy ?. who knew, please alert the press :laughing

 

[LongGoneJohn]

Manholes are slippy ?. who knew, please alert the press :laughing

:laughing

 

[Go2Trackdays]

this guy didn't know :toothless - and there were two of them right there in the left track....

 

[Ant]

My first noob scare was with slippery cross walk paint. Didn't go down but valuable lesson learned!

 

[TylerW]

Mine was on a Muni track. They still kind of give me the willies, but that's because Muni trains tend to follow them.

 

[sea bass]

Mine was on a Muni track. They still kind of give me the willies, but that's because Muni trains tend to follow them.

:laughing

same, plus I've fallen in the grooves with my road bicycle.

The metal grates on market st are slippery also

 

[monkeythumpa]

Mine was on a Muni track. They still kind of give me the willies, but that's because Muni trains tend to follow them.

Muni tracks too? Man... I guess I will have to wheelie over manholes, tracks, paint... oh, and whenever it is raining.

 

[ST Guy]

Manhole Cover. I pulled up to this T intersection and there's a pristine F3 waiting to go left. The roundish guy is wearing Tshirt, reg. jeans and shoes. He goes to make the turn and the back end kicked out - he put his foot out and kept it upright... so beware :teeth

Beware of what? A roundish guy in a T shirt, jeans and shoes? :laughing

 

[wiffledaddy]

In Long Beach there have been over 50 manhole covers stolen this year. The absence of one of those would be a brutal thing to roll over/into.

 

[MAAH STUD]

I'm more worried about someone poping out of one :wow

 

[PunkRockMonkey]

I'm more worried about someone poping out of one :wow

Is that oscar the grouch?
:rofl

He's somehow managed to escape the Sesame Street Dimension and has come to our world to wreak his dissident havoc upon our masses! He must be stopped!

 

[Anti-Hero]

That sucks that he slipped, thats cool that he kept it up. But what exactly was the point of telling barf what he was wearing?

 

[wsmc831]

pfft. the real problem was he had new tires, and hadn't taken the belt sander to them yet.

 

[Silence]

But it's so fun to get it all wiggly! :laughing :laughing

 

[ThumperX]

pfft. the real problem was he had new tires, and hadn't taken the belt sander to them yet.

And they were cold....

 

[PorradaVFR]

MANhole covers are slippery.

 

[Anti-Hero]

4tunatly he was able to keep it upright.

 

[Moike]

But it's so fun to get it all wiggly! :laughing :laughing

Exactly, I dip the clutch right before I hit them just to spin the back end up over the manhole covers on purpose. Same with tar snakes, thick paint lines, cardboard, metal plates, railroad crossings, and anything else that I can use in a video-game fashion to make my riding experience more grin inducing.

Plus, practice how you play. The more you goof off and get the bike loose and slightly out of control under you -on purpose- on a regular basis, the far less likely you are to panic and over react when it does it suddenly and unexpectedly.

Try locking up your front wheel over the next manhole cover you come across in a straight line, that's good for a giggle or two. Keep that weight off the bars!

-Mike-

 

[Archimedes]

Can one of the mods please add the word 'cover' to the end of the title to this thread? I need to get that picture out of my head.