Originally Posted by
Witterings
I was riding with Vittoria Voyager Hyers which are pretty slick down a paved farm track and as we turned into what becomes more of a "gravelly" road .... as it's been a dry summer here there was a fine layer of dirt and my front wheel just went and I was down before I could blink.
Originally Posted by
literal trope
Originally Posted by
Witterings
Those tires* sure mean you can't lean hard or touch the brakes wrong in loose dirt and ball bearing sized rocks. I mentioned wet steel plate in another thread, well that there piece of road is the rural equivalent with those near slick tires.
Suspension would have helped your tires follow the pot-hole like situation, but that's a different machine. Tires with a deep tread pattern would have helped bite through the loose dirt. Even so, if you stop pedaling and your weight shifts to your seat, now the bike feels your weight high instead of low. Keeping weight on the pedals, or even standing on them, would help your bike feel your weight low and allow your legs to act as suspension.
IMO, off-road riding time would help in understanding some of this. Back in my motorcycle days I started on road bikes, but I really learned how to ride when I rode off-road.
*Whats the tread depth on those things, 0.5mm?