On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 04:38:49 +0000, PDQ wrote
(in article ):

I still say One can only hang on and hope when one is on wet ice. Maybe one

of these tires/tyres will help but, until one has sat through a really slow
360 with no hint it was coming and no capability of stopping it, one really
never appreciates how difficult driving on ice is.



Waltzing on a motorcycle. One of the least pleasant ways I've ever spent a
half hour.. or at least it seemed like half an hour. Probably took less than
two seconds but I had time to remember everybody I ever met and could have
written each of them a letter..

Speaking of "no hint" a neighbour of mine was riding home early morning in
'76, one of the hottest English summers on record. I remember friends had
gone to Athens and it was hotter here than there, no rain, deep blue skies,
office workers in shorts...
He slid off his bike 'cos he hit a big patch of black ice. Dunno where the
water came from. but around 4 am the temperature suddenly dropped (no cloud
cover) and after weeks of high-speed tootling around on dry, grippy roads he
expressed considerable surprise to suddenly find himself upside down , going
sideways. The insurers assumed he was telling whoppas but he had a police
report to back him up.