It was always interesting when motorcycling to avoid painted areas of the road when it rained, not to mention wet bricks, metal or wood as an old wooden suspension bridge was pretty treacherous while wet from fog. Though the most sketchy road was one covered by a mud slide from winter rains on the lost coast of California. But with two wheels and vulnerability to falling, you had to always be conscious of grip and road surfaces. And this is an odd one, and I seem to remember riding somewhere with freshly painted roads where I was purposely avoiding them. And they can paint these on pretty thick to where I’d avoid them even with four wheels.
By Joy Greenwald
A motorcyclist is dead after crashing his bike near Meeteetse, the Wyoming Highway Patrol says.
It happened around 9:35 a.m. on Sunday, Aug. 25 at milepost 48.5 on Wyoming 120.
According to a fatality crash summary, 44-year-old Missouri resident Willard Sandefer was riding with two other motorcyclists ahead of him who had passed another vehicle as the passing lane began to merge into one lane when he attempted to catch up with them and drifted onto some newly painted center stripes.
“(Sandefer) began to lose control when the motorcycle’s front tire drove over the center stripes,” the summary reads. “The motorcycle went into a full front-end wobble and veered off the roadway to the left.”
Sandefer was wearing a helmet but died from his injuries.
The summary lists speed as a possible contributing factor.
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