In my case I wasn’t paying enough attention to where water had pooled in the tracks cars had worn into the road. Gentle taps on the brake handles were enough to decouple my scooter’s wheels from the road and give me a two kilometer braking distance. Yikes.
That last bit is why I think every new driver needs to spend a few hours on a skid pad.
In my case I wasn’t paying enough attention to where water had pooled in the tracks cars had worn into the road. Gentle taps on the brake handles were enough to decouple my scooter’s wheels from the road and give me a two kilometer braking distance. Yikes.
A few years riding a bike will do the same.