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Aug 22, 2006 | 01:58 PM

Legendary6301

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Nice ride to work

So I decided I'm going to ride to work this morning. It was a nice ride. It was about 68 degrees and I'm riding in a sweatshirt and jeans. I hop on the Blue Route (PA-476) to get up to the PA turnpike. For some reason there was an over abundance of trucks and tractor trailers. So I get in the right hand lane so I can cruise. I wind up getting behind a dumptruck with a mesh type cover on the top of the bed. Then I start to hear it, I can't see it but I can feel it and hear it. "PLINK, TINK, DINK, DINK, TINK, PLINK." My face is getting pelted by unseeable little pebbles and dirt pieces flying out of the back of this dump truck. Forget about moving to the other lane, big old Mr. Tracker trailer is there checking me out in his sideview and his buddy is behind me. We are all at a consistent speed. So I'm getting pelted in the face, I wear are half-helmet with sunglasses, and I'm getting pissed because I can hear my bike getting hit with crap as well. I just had new chrome wheels and rotors put on, and my paint. Dammit! So I see my chance...Mr. Tractor Trailer lets up for a second and I have just enough room to squeeze by. So I gun it...and get by...my Vance and Hines Big Shots were screaming...its was great. The rest of the ride was sweet. Now I know why I see some people riding with Full Face helmets...not my style but practicle non-the-less.

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Aug 22, 2006 | 03:11 PM

grunt

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RE: Nice ride to work

Hope they didn't scuff yer vehicle. Glad you had fun

Aug 22, 2006 | 03:55 PM

cajunrph

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RE: Nice ride to work

I never like to ride behind any truck. I know I have so much sh*t in the back of mine that I would be taking out everyone if I didn't have a cover on it. That is also why I ware a full face helmet. Been hit too many times in the face shield by a bug/rock not to. Hope your bike is undammaged.

Aug 22, 2006 | 04:11 PM

Legendary6301

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RE: Nice ride to work

No visible damage. Hopefully it will stay that way.

Aug 22, 2006 | 04:16 PM

tdoffing

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RE: Nice ride to work

The same thing has happened to me on numerous occasions. The far worst was a truck that had formerly been carrying some sort of grain, the debris blowing out was fine and cut like little razor blades, or at least it felt that way. I got out from behind him as soon as I was able.

Aug 22, 2006 | 05:35 PM

cwilks

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RE: Nice ride to work

Nothing better than riding your scoot to work---enjoying the cooler weather (hopefully) in the morning, and relieving the stress from the day on the way home. Ya can't beat it!!

Aug 22, 2006 | 06:02 PM

TXSwede

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RE: Nice ride to work

Thats why I always wear 'goggle' type sunglasses and clear glasses. Especially with contacts. Its those little microscopic pieces of dust that get in your eye that can be as annoying as the bigger pieces.

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Aug 22, 2006 | 06:54 PM

Draggin S

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RE: Nice ride to work

Well,

I rode mine in this morning and about halfway there I came up on the horror of all horrors on the highway.......never mind the gravel trucks, landscaping trailers and women on cell phones putting on makeup, THERE IT WAS!!!! An old contractors pickup with THREE aluminum ladders tied to the cab, with rope no less..............never, never ever ride on a highway within 20 miles of one of those.......and this was on a three-lane freeway.

I have been on the tail-end of a cluster when one of those aluminum ladders blows out in the middle of a freeway when I was driving a nice tall four-wheeler and when people start turning, diving, swerving and slamming on their brakes to miss a flipping and flattened ladder it's not a pretty sight.

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