Heaven or Hell! Round 2! FIGHT!
So last weekend I went to berk... I drove there... on my bike... BUT, I took the country road, so its should be alot safer right? How wrong I was..... the first 85% of the trip was pretty cool, some of the best driving experience I've had. Until I went up a mountain... I have no idea why I had to go through a mountain... But I had to do... Ok, lets stop here and think of the worst possible condition for driving.
Downhill: Yeah, I was going down a pretty steep montain pass.
Darkness: Cant see anything, cant even see the hand infront of my eyes because it was night with no lamps on either side, the trees even blocked off the moon light. The beams on my bike could only show 2 meters infront of me, and even thats covered by light refecting off the rain.
Rain: Tons of it, had to shift my eye protecting thingie up since it made everything blurry, it didnt help that much since the rain was getting into my eyes instead now.
Oil: First rain in a long time on that mountain, so the road was too slippery to EVEN STAND ON.
Sharp corners: Know what hairpins are? Well there's about 1241 on that mountain, I had to constantly swirve from one turn to another.
Cold Temperature: It was freezing cold cus of the rain, my body was shaking and I was having a hard time keeping my handle still.
Death at every corner: There were no fences to prevent me from falling off the mountain (for the most part), and it was a longway down...
Anyway... I saw a sharp turn comming up, so I started breaking... and I skid for a full 5-6 seconds before going off road and crashing on the side of the road. I hurt my left wrist and bruised the left side of my pelvis, nothing broke I don think. My left turn signal got smashed to little peices again. Several cars saw the crash and stopped to see if I'm alright, some offered to call 911. Being the moron I am I immediatly stood up, not checking if I had anything broken, and told them that I was fine and to not be troubled by my little accident. A random guy actually came down from the mountains a minute later... turns out he heard my bike crash from where he lived, he helped me lift my bike back up (because at the time my left wrist was seriously out of commission). He offered to let me stay at his place and give me a ride back up to berk tommroow, I kindly refused, thinking that I already went 90% of the way... might as well bite down and go the last stretch. To which I did, cept I got lost because it was so dark that I couldnt read the street signs anymore, I cant even see them. I'm just going around blindly until I stopped and started waving at cars that drove past me, a nice azn lady stopped and asked me whats wrong, I told her I was lost.. and she said to follow her to the UCB campus.I did, and that was that. The conditions were so bad.. I donno how I only crashed once... It was just insane how bad the conditions were, I'm surprised I only crashed once! I mean, you couldnt even stood on the road! Thats how slippery the road was.
Here's some pics I took before, and I after I crashed. (I took somebefore to brag about how I didnt crash even though I went through this kind of hellish condition... but I guess that didnt work out)
Downhill: Yeah, I was going down a pretty steep montain pass.
Darkness: Cant see anything, cant even see the hand infront of my eyes because it was night with no lamps on either side, the trees even blocked off the moon light. The beams on my bike could only show 2 meters infront of me, and even thats covered by light refecting off the rain.
Rain: Tons of it, had to shift my eye protecting thingie up since it made everything blurry, it didnt help that much since the rain was getting into my eyes instead now.
Oil: First rain in a long time on that mountain, so the road was too slippery to EVEN STAND ON.
Sharp corners: Know what hairpins are? Well there's about 1241 on that mountain, I had to constantly swirve from one turn to another.
Cold Temperature: It was freezing cold cus of the rain, my body was shaking and I was having a hard time keeping my handle still.
Death at every corner: There were no fences to prevent me from falling off the mountain (for the most part), and it was a longway down...
Anyway... I saw a sharp turn comming up, so I started breaking... and I skid for a full 5-6 seconds before going off road and crashing on the side of the road. I hurt my left wrist and bruised the left side of my pelvis, nothing broke I don think. My left turn signal got smashed to little peices again. Several cars saw the crash and stopped to see if I'm alright, some offered to call 911. Being the moron I am I immediatly stood up, not checking if I had anything broken, and told them that I was fine and to not be troubled by my little accident. A random guy actually came down from the mountains a minute later... turns out he heard my bike crash from where he lived, he helped me lift my bike back up (because at the time my left wrist was seriously out of commission). He offered to let me stay at his place and give me a ride back up to berk tommroow, I kindly refused, thinking that I already went 90% of the way... might as well bite down and go the last stretch. To which I did, cept I got lost because it was so dark that I couldnt read the street signs anymore, I cant even see them. I'm just going around blindly until I stopped and started waving at cars that drove past me, a nice azn lady stopped and asked me whats wrong, I told her I was lost.. and she said to follow her to the UCB campus.I did, and that was that. The conditions were so bad.. I donno how I only crashed once... It was just insane how bad the conditions were, I'm surprised I only crashed once! I mean, you couldnt even stood on the road! Thats how slippery the road was.
Here's some pics I took before, and I after I crashed. (I took somebefore to brag about how I didnt crash even though I went through this kind of hellish condition... but I guess that didnt work out)