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Last night as I was leaving work had a close call/ very embarrassing moment.
I had to make it home before 6:30 for babysitter interview that my wife scheduled, I work till 6 and its a 15-20 minute ride. As I walk outside the weather is kinda nasty gusty winds and was drizzling a bit. I work in industrial are of Brooklyn Red Hook so the roads are pretty shot in many places its still old cobble stone pavement with patches of asphalt and I generally ride carefully till I get to better pavement. All was good till I came to good pavement stopped at a stop sign at Hamilton Ave, looked to make sure there was no cars coming and hit the gas. My back tire must have caught something slick oil, garbage juice or whatever it was bike did a good 90 degree spin and finally caught traction sending me toward the sidewalk. Luckily there was a ramp thingy at the intersection as the curb was good foot high and I ended up going up on the sidewalk and stopping the bike. All this happen in like 3 seconds not sure where the luck or the skill came from to manage to wrestle the bike upright don't know but somehow I managed. People were looking at me like I was a mad biker or something but I just slowly backed up to the street and went on my way being slightly embarrased and a bit shocked at the same time.
The moral of the story don't stop in the middle of the road when its wet, basic rule that I kinda took for granted and ignored
I had to make it home before 6:30 for babysitter interview that my wife scheduled, I work till 6 and its a 15-20 minute ride. As I walk outside the weather is kinda nasty gusty winds and was drizzling a bit. I work in industrial are of Brooklyn Red Hook so the roads are pretty shot in many places its still old cobble stone pavement with patches of asphalt and I generally ride carefully till I get to better pavement. All was good till I came to good pavement stopped at a stop sign at Hamilton Ave, looked to make sure there was no cars coming and hit the gas. My back tire must have caught something slick oil, garbage juice or whatever it was bike did a good 90 degree spin and finally caught traction sending me toward the sidewalk. Luckily there was a ramp thingy at the intersection as the curb was good foot high and I ended up going up on the sidewalk and stopping the bike. All this happen in like 3 seconds not sure where the luck or the skill came from to manage to wrestle the bike upright don't know but somehow I managed. People were looking at me like I was a mad biker or something but I just slowly backed up to the street and went on my way being slightly embarrased and a bit shocked at the same time.
The moral of the story don't stop in the middle of the road when its wet, basic rule that I kinda took for granted and ignored
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