Here's the key: if you were white knuckled, I'm sure your arms, shoulder, upper body, etc were locked up and tense. Which is the LAST thing you want to be in a challenging riding situation. Inasmuch as possible, grip the bike with your legs as hard as you want (this is easier with a standard or a sport bike than with a cruiser), but be loose from the waist up. The bike will squirm around a bit in a buffeting wind - let it. It's not going to go down, it will self-correct every little wiggle and resume the normal position. Bikes at speed want to stand up straight and go straight - it takes much more than the wind buffet from a semi to dump a bike.bilsam wrote:I got a little unnerved the other day, got blown around a bit and am sure I was white knuckled....
Wind from trucks
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Re: Wind from trucks
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2009 BMW F650GS (wife's)
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Re: Wind from trucks
Amen to that. Well said.
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