Took a short ride with my Wife yesterday, (she was on her bike, thankfully) and we were on our way home from a short ride riding on a four lane HWY that had been repaved about two months ago. As I was crusing along in the right lane at about 55-60 MPH on a slight right hand turn my back tire hit a new formed rut (you know the ones made in new tar by big trucks pushing up the pavement) it lifted my rear tire off the ground and trew it a few feet to my left, upon landing I was in for a tank slapper ride, it did not last very long but scared the Scheit out of me that you could have used a cork screw to get the seat out of my arse.
Luckily I held on and got the Valk back under control, I did not realize how hard the tank slapper was until a few miles down the road when my right arm and shoulder was killing me. I guess I was holding on a bit tighter than I thought.
The wife said she saw me sliding around but did not think much of it since she has been on the bike for rides like that before and I always got it under control, my only answer to that was thanks for the vote of confidence
I guess it shows, expect the unexpected.
I can only ass-u-me
that due to the heat we have had and the pavement being fairly new the trucks are pushing up the road there, I found no other spots that was happening too the rest of the road.
