Just yesterday I was reminded of this fact as I’ve been a little lax about practicing the hard stops. I was pulling out of a parking lot onto a freeway feeder road and looked up to realize that a line of cars in front of me had come to a dead stop. I grabbed the front brake and stomped on the back brake a little to heavily and the back tire lost traction. I skidded about 6 or 7 feet but thank god I had enough room that I stopped with about four feet to spare.
I had been feeling pretty cavalier lately thinking “hey, I’ve got this stuff down”. I’m just glad that the experience that brought be back to humbling reality didn’t result in injury or accident. Back to the parking lot for regular practice thank you very much.
~He who laughs last didn’t get the joke…