For the first couple of weeks that I had my bike, I didn’t take it on the interstate. I barely moved out of the right hand lane. I would have to take local roads about 25 miles to get to work. The road is fairly straight, but at one point there is a large, downhill, gradual, sweeping turn. This turn comes as you are leaving a 30mph zone and going into a 40mph. That first week, I almost lost it on that curve.
I took this route yesterday because of a big wreck on the interstate. As I approached the curve I was thinking, “here it comes.” It never came. I got through it and kind of wondered how on Earth I ever got freaked out by that turn, let alone almost lost it making it.
Let this be a lesson to you beginners out there. It does get easier. A lot easier. You start seeing what is going to happen in traffic because what you are doing on the bike is second nature. I still have a lot of improving to do, but there is a big difference in how I ride now 4k miles later. (does anyone find it ironic that we tend to abbreviate 1,000 with the metric K and then we put it in front of a standard measurement).
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