#1 Always hit cracks perpendicular when it's wet. I regularly cross a railroad that runs oblique to the road, and has two-inch-high cracks between platforms. My handlebars jolted leftward when I crossed it in the rain, but fortunately I was crossing slowly.
#2 If you have to fall and have a choice, it's fifty times better to hit the curb and launch into the grass. This can be done at any intersection with a 45-degree turn.
#2 If you have to fall and have a choice, it's fifty times better to hit the curb and launch into the grass. This can be done at any intersection with a 45-degree turn.