Slippy in Seattle

On Monday morning I walked outside to go to work and started suiting up ready to get on the bike.Standing by my bike I looked up the hill and watched a cyclist cresting the hill and she rode down followed by a couple of cars. By this time my ear plugs are in and my helmet on. The cars started backing up and looking over my left shoulder I saw her on the ground.!She wiped out on a straight downhill.!!I can't just leave.She was around 30 feet down the hill and across the street. Walking on the slope of the hill I nearly slipped myself.It turned out that the hill was covered on hoarfrost. She must've touched the brakes and lost it.Checking on her she turned out to be OK, it a bit banged up. "Yeah, that'll bruise."

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Sometimes when I'm driving in sketchy conditions I sometimes hit the rear brake to see how much it'll take to kick on the ABS. This time around it didn't take much at all -- in fact I didn't slow at all with the application of the rear brake.I'm happy the next street over is a main street. Aurora has enough traffic that any frost would have been long gone. Tiptoeing down the hill it all turned out OK. I figured if I was able to walk on the hill the bike, with a lot bigger contact patch, would be able to make it as well.I'm happy I estimated right.

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At least it wasn't as bad as when I got to Holly when it started to sleet.!I told most of the story already... I'm sure I'll tell more as time passes.  ;-)