Re: Wind from trucks
Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2015 2:27 pm
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....