The other day I was riding and found myself in a road paving project area. This was a project on a 4-lane road with 1/2 of the two lanes on my side paved… and the other 1/2 getting prepared for paving to continue. The problem is that the 1/2 that was paved was the left lane and this caused a height difference “ridge” of approximately 1 – 2 inches of asphalt between the two lanes (of course I was in the right “low-side” lane).
This wouldn’t have been a problem if I could have stayed in the lane I was in… but once into the paving area all cars had to merge from the right to the left lane. Speeds on this road were about 40 miles per hour and on a normal motorcycle this would have been scary enough! On a chopper (let alone a wide rear tire) it was one of the scariest things I have had to do. In the moment before the transition I tried to slow down as much as I could in the “bumper to bumper” traffic, gripped the handlebars firmly, and then once there was an opening in the traffic to move over I tried to make the “cut” at as sharp of an angle as was possible.
Let me just say that “I made...
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