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I can add to this actually sadly.
This is December, the first ride after passing my N test for my bike. Weather was cold by clear. Within 5 minutes of leaving my house the rain hit like a motherfucker. Like, tropical storm kind of downpour. I learned to ride in the rain so I wasn't too phased. Well, coming up to a stale green at 2 road and Westminster highway (heading south) the light turned yellow. I touched the brakes very lightly and the bike just fell immediately. Slow speed low side, maybe 20km/h?
No problems for me. Scratched the bike up, but he frame sliders to the brunt of it. My helmet had a tiny scratch on it. Snapped off my shifter of course but the bike was fine. So I just put it in second and rode to my buddies place in steveston where I just did the old drill a hole and thread in a Bolt trick.
I don't feel bad about falling, but there's a good reason. When I lifted the bike up and pushed it off the road, I did a situation analysis. When I looked back on the lane I was just in, there was red and yellow plastic all over the road (not from my bike) and there was a huge oil stick. There must have been an accident there the night before or earlier in the morning which was not cleaned up properly. The huge downpour of rain just slicked it like an ice rink. I lived at that intersection for 20 years, accidents were almost daily lol
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