Quote Originally Posted by mimitabby View Post
Smilingcat, great advice, thanks
Oakleaf, there ARE hidden turns and I encountered some on Monday! they were very twisty and I could NOT see where they were going. I WAS looking ahead. but suffice to say, i had already slowed down because the folks ahead of me warned me!
Well, okay, but that's another point. That's what they call the "fridge factor," i.e., if you come around a turn and in one lane there's a refrigerator and in the other lane there's the pickup truck that just dropped it, what are you going to do? The point being, never go faster than your visibility and your stopping/swerving distance (speed and traction) allow. Sometimes that just means not going all-out. Even when you know the road and you *do* know the lines through the turns, you don't know what's going to be in them.