So, I've been gone a few days. Been rather busy with work and everything else going on around here these days, so I took a week off the computer. Actually feels real good. I will do an update one of these upcoming dates, but I do struggle with my focus and eyesight for some reason so I try not to look and focus too much on a single thing for too long:p
For the video you're about to watch, what happened is that I got "SNOWBLIND" for a split second. I didn't see the outline of the road and was unsure of how much I had to turn, you can see it in the video when I realise where it is:p
Taken from wiki:
Snowblind or Snow Blind may refer to:
Snow blindness or photokeratitis, a type of temporary eye damage caused by snow reflecting UV light.
Basically what happens is that everything seems to be one big white surface, and you can't see outlines or depth. Usually it happens only for a split second, and luckily this was one of those times.
If I had panicked and straightened out the bike this could have gone alot worse, cause I would have hit the ditch doing 80kmh, when the backwheel would have hit the ditch, I probably would have been thrown over the bike. And at 80kmh, that hurts, especially when the surface is frozen. Or it could have been trees there like 90% of the road in general. Anyway, it turned out to be more of a fun little happening than anything else.
If you're just here for the "incident" skip to 0:50 and watch from there. It's even hard to see what happens on the camera(all gopro'ers knows why:p), but I go full ditch for about 10 meters before going onto the road again;)