The "Cone" Rider

[Crusty Snippets]

Clarity

This is troubling for me.
I would have much preferred for anyone to ask me to clarify what I meant, rather than interpret in a manner that was not intended.
It would have allowed the conversation to continue if needed, rather than kill it.

Unkle Crusty

[LoHo]

When I took the MSC in the 90s, they had loaner bikes from local dealers. They were 200s and 250s and then one 600. The instructor gave me the 600 since he saw me ride in on the XS and figured I was used to bigger bikes.

In our group was a guy who had ridden for twenty years, taking the course with his wife and son, who were newbies. He was hitting all the marks and was a skilled rider, but was also the only rider to go down: in the quick-turn-short-stop event, where one makes a 90 degree turn at surface road speed, then has to stop in about twenty feet, he was over so far in the turn that he nicked the inside painted line and did a lowside at about twenty. No harm, no foul, but ever since I watched that, I am cautious of turning on painted lines. When it was my turn, the Instructor mentioned that "That may be the slowest turn I've ever seen."

[motoman]

When I took the MSC in the 90s, they had loaner bikes from local dealers. They were 200s and 250s and then one 600. The instructor gave me the 600 since he saw me ride in on the XS and figured I was used to bigger bikes.

In our group was a guy who had ridden for twenty years, taking the course with his wife and son, who were newbies. He was hitting all the marks and was a skilled rider, but was also the only rider to go down: in the quick-turn-short-stop event, where one makes a 90 degree turn at surface road speed, then has to stop in about twenty feet, he was over so far in the turn that he nicked the inside painted line and did a lowside at about twenty. No harm, no foul, but ever since I watched that, I am cautious of turning on painted lines. When it was my turn, the Instructor mentioned that "That may be the slowest turn I've ever seen."

Good point!..........Highway striping has semi-flotation glass beads added with a glass bead 'gun' directly behind paint gun. These give the lines reflectivity at night. Being semi-flotation, they are throughout paint thickness to still reflect as paint wears. I did the highway striping here in Colo. for 15yrs. of my 31yr. career at CDOT. So, yes, those lines CAN put you down. Also, exert caution at intersections where cross-walks are located. Alot of these are thermo-plastic inlays and even slicker than the striping.

[Prisoner6]

Thanks, LoHo and motoman, for the heads-up to all of us. This is something we all need to be reminded

of now and then. I've had a few "scary" moments over the years on painted lines ...