Assuming that isn't a rhetorical question, I think it's a combination of target avoidance fixation and that countersteer thing, where you first have to go a bit to the right before you can swerve left. I was a bit squirrelly early in my road riding career and popped off the edge of the pavement on a number of occasions. Fortunately my mountain biking experience kept me from crashing as a result of any of these off road excursions...
Once on a century in southern Oregon I went down into a grassy ditch, rolled along it for a few yards and popped up onto a driveway and back onto the road. The group I was with was agog, but my buddy who I'd ridden with quite a bit said "don't worry, he's always doing shit like that." B-) Getting off a too small, twitchy Trek aluminum road bike onto a properly sized Riv was a big help in keeping me on the straight and narrow. That and practice. Steve On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 5:51 PM, Jim Bronson <jim.bron...@gmail.com> wrote: > Why is it that when you get too close to the right edge of the road, it's > hard to pull it back? > > I had a little brief off road excursion on one of my regular routes > yesterday. I was too close to the edge, and it just started going over, so > I went with it rather than fight it. Thankfully the ditch was smooth and > grassy, and the beer bottle I ran over didn't break. I was able to compose > myself and pull back on the road without damage to man or machine. But it > could have been much worse had conditions been different. I was probably > going around 20 at the time. > > Ok - let's not do that again anytime soon :) > > > -- > Keep the metal side up and the rubber side down! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
