Look again at the road, tarmac isn't that shiny. There's reflections of the bike and the car in the surface and the yellow lines are also showing reflections. Its wet or at least very damp.
As for the "dumb yank" comment - it stands. Go look at their accident figures against ours and see who can't go round corners. The same reason you can buy swingarm extensions of the shelf over there, most of the roads only have a corner if there's traffic lights and its 90 degrees.
The only shot where there's any possibility of reflections is on the thread title page - the other 8 show no reflections - only shadows, on that basis the "shiny" appearance on the first shot would seem spurious. Check the others and see what ya think.
There's no evidence of rain on the car's wind-screen - at the very least you should see a change in hue where the wipers have cleared the rain in the last half hour - they're in a forest so had it been raining at some point then the run-off from the trees would make the car - and indeed the road - wet long after it'd stopped raining.
Any road more than a few months old is a different shade in the lane centre compared to where the majority of tyre contact takes place - it's exactly the same as being able to visually tell the difference between brand new and slightly worn sand paper.
In any case - what difference does it make to your judgement of the rider? Whether it was wet or dry he still made an error of judgement. You probably wouldn't've had so many people arguing with you if you hadn't made such a snide, inconsiderate generalisation. I ride in all weathers, have had several accidents - some very bad, and keep on learning and improving. But I don't sit on my arse and judge other people on the basis of a few inconclusive photos.
Posted: 18/03/2009 at 22:58
