Oh, I was up to my eyeballs in front brake too. The "smack down" actually came from the front wash-out when the tire ran out of pavement and hit the frost-riddled pine straw and crap. I have wondered if the side of the road had not been frosted and piled deep with loose stuff if we would still have gone down. I would have still been off the road, but maybe upright. But when the frosty crap came, man, that smack down was fast! Picture sitting on your bike, then being broadsided by a pro football linebacker at full speed. As Emerill would say, BAM! I was on the ground thinking: This sucks.
