Just back from -4 degrees Wisconsin jaunt. "Scraping" wasn't my main concern today -- fer shur!

Sin

When I scrape my front tire, I'm forcing the wheel sideways before I get the wheel completely turned in the direction of the carve. I'm not sure how this happens, but it seems to be that I am putting too much weight on the back wheels which unloads the front end so that it can slide much easier AND it seems that my body's oomph that I give as I turn the wheel imparts a sideways force before my arms have completed the turning move. My arm turn "tells" the Trikke to carve, but my body is telling it to go straight toward the arc's end point instead. It's hypocritical trikking! If I put a little more weight on the back wheels, the front would merely "swing in the air" over to where it should be, instead, and thus abandon all carving to it. Bottom line: you're cheating the carve.

At last, trikking sin has been defined!

Non-sin

The other kind of skidding you mention, where you turn left and the front wheel keeps going right, is from carving too hard given the friction between the surface and the front wheel. I have learned to control this. I call it "skitter-bumping." It's like when you run your thumb along a smooth surface, and it starts skipping in a stuttering motion. Well, I know the limits of friction in many situations so clearly that I can take the chance and push the carve hard enough to break into the skitter-bumping and yet maintain the carve enough to complete it. Of course, this is dangerous, because skitter-bumping is carving at just that point where you lose all traction and a bit more of it will see you go down like Claudio did the other day, and ended up warping a few tendons and sinews. Yet, I like to skitter-bump. So sue me. Well, don't bother, sooner or later skitter-bumping vs an unseen pebble will bring me to my "Claudio day in court." Sigh.....

I don't think skitter-bumping is immoral, but scraping is, er, well, at least it's a personality flaw....you're being impatient and wanting to carve and be at the end of the carve at the same time. This amounts to wanting omnipresence without wanting the divine status that would merit having it....a sin against the integrity of the Self. If you're going to be God, you'd better have infinite shakti mojo.

Edg