Today's drive was a windy challenge. The Sprinter has a feature called "crosswind assist" when it senses that the van is about to get blown over the upwind brakes apply themselves for a brief moment. The first time it happened it scared the shit out of me. It happened maybe a dozen times today. The wind was really bad. We are in camp under the ponderosa pines and it's still really bad. It is a cool wind however. We might need the heater later. This KOA backs up to a national forest with trails. I will try to ride a few of them tomorrow. We stopped a few times on the way here. We weren't in a hurry. I tried to capture the blowing dust a a gas stop along the way. We are here for 2 nights.
Wow Dave, I think that would have scared me too, I think I might have gone directly to a repair shop. Did you already know about this crosswind assit, how did you figure this out. Happy bike riding.
ReplyDeleteWow..kinda like getting a heavy duty Lowes plastic bucket stuck under your car at 55 MPH on a St. Louis freeway with no where to go but hit it? That kind of scared?? Im too old for these challenges. Anyway, sounds like quite a wind storm. Hopefully things have settled down. Have an uneventful day. Your sister, Paula
ReplyDeleteA light comes on in the dash that says the crosswind assist has been activated. We looked it up to figure out what was happening.
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