Ah, wet grass with a mud substrate!

In one of my earliest solo rides as a newbie rider in California, I rode out Coleman Valley Road from Occidental to Highway 1 in California, and as I crested the final bluff before the long descent to the Pacific I couldn't resist pulling off the road to admire the sweeping view. Nice wet grass, with a sloppy mud substrate, and a downslope on a soft shoulder to boot! Very bad idea of a good place to pull over. As I braked front and back, sure enough, the front wheel got all skittish and started to slip out from under me. I corrected, then overcorrected, and she slipped out the other way, putting me into a slow-motion high side. I tried to plant my foot on the downhill side, and it just went out from under me, and down came my KLR. Fortunately, the mud slowed her forward momentum as the foot peg sank in (and came off) and she didn't roll down the hill toward the Pacific! But there I was, with the bike dropped on the downhill side of a very slippery hillside, as the sun dipped into the ocean. Took all the strength I could muster to right her and get back to the tarmac. Then rode 45 miles home without a right foot peg (and was too much of a newb to think of using the pillion peg)...

We live, we learn....

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