Dry Pine Needles are Slick Stuff

[Badbob]

On the way to work this morning I saw some steel tubing someone had put out for trash that I thought might be useful and stopped to take a look. There were pine needles on the pavement covering the pavement out to about two feet from the edge. Not wanting to stop in the road I eased carefully to a stop on the pine needles. Just as my feet touched the ground the bike slid sideways off the pavement and dropped at least six inches off the edge of the pavement. Why I didn't fall is beyond me. I have small scrape on my leg just above the top of my boot. As far as I could see in the dim light there was no damage to the bike. I take a better look at it latter.

Lessons learned:
Don't stop/park in pine needles.
Get taller boots.

I never got to the parking part which is probably a good thing otherwise the bike would have just flopped over on the pavement.