Twilight zone roads
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From: SW OH.
Twilight zone roads
Has this ever happened to you? You're out for a ride,the Harley's sounding good,you feel fine until you turn onto a certain road and then you start feeling uneasy,like something bad could happen.You can't quite figure it out,you just know that you don't like this stretch of road.I'm not talking about traffic or road conditions here,it's more of a creepy dislike of this road and you just want to put it behind you.A couple of times in the last forty years I've felt this.Once my wife and I were day tripping in the southern Oh. hills and I turned down a back road and experienced this.Even she noticed it.I stopped at a pull off for a smoke and she said "I don't like this place lets go".It happened again last year in N Carolina.I'm not easily spooked but I trust my instincts.
Road Warrior
Joined: Feb 2007
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From: Oklahoma
RE: Twilight zone roads
In themid 80s Istopped for gas inFarmington, NM just before sunset. Navajo country. Heading east, I thought I would just get in a few more miles before shutting it down and didn't check the map on what was ahead. AbsolutelyNOTHING, not even cars,was ahead forover 100 miles except moonlight arroyos. I had been reading too many Tony Hillerman novels about Navajochindi and skinwalkers. Completely spooked by the time I reached Chama.
Tourer
Joined: May 2007
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From: Western, Massachusetts
RE: Twilight zone roads
Only on sketchy, pot hole filled ragged azz, good old New England un-maintained dirt roads. When the sign outside the road says, caution pass at your own risk, road not maintained. Thats a hint!
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Road Warrior
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RE: Twilight zone roads
Yes.[8D]
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From: Greenfield, Massachusetts
RE: Twilight zone roads
What I have experienced is that while riding along, usually on the highway at higher speeds, all is well, I feel good, the bike feels good, everything is good. Then I get this overpowering sense of foreboding, for no apparent reason. So I usually slow down, let people go by, get super focused, and in a minute or two the feeling goes away. I have had a hard time explaining this to people, they don't know quite what I am talking about. But I have learned to trust my instincts. I think we humans have evolved so far that we ignore those instincts. Some people are more in tune to feelings like this, and yours. I simply say TRUST those instincts. Almost every time I don't, I regret it.
