Scariest Ride
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From: Exit 3
RE: Scariest Ride
My moment happened one rainy day when I was going to my nephew’s playoff baseball game from my office in center city Philadelphia. It was in a town a little west of Philadelphia and I wanted to save time so I decided to cut through the city. Bad move because Philadelphia still has trolley tracks, wet ones that day. I was going down the street when my rear wheel got caught in the trolley track, but the front wasn’t in it. I might not have noticed except the tracks took a right and I wanted to go straight. At least my front tire wanted to go straight, the rear wanted to take a right. It felt like my back tire was going to pass my front. It was a very weird feeling. I remember it was sort of a surreal moment. After the initial panic, once I realized that I was probably going down I got really calm. I remember wondering how much it would hurt, then thinking if the bike was going to get damaged. Next thing I knew the tire came out of the track and I was OK, I didn’t go down like I thought.
About a half mile down the road there was some construction. They had grinded the road down in preparation of repaving it. I was on the grove/grinded road going down a hill and at the bottom was a red light. I started to break and nothing happened, I was just skidding across the tops of the groves. I actually started into the intersection when the light turned green for me; so once again I was one lucky SOB.
I finally made it to the game and his team actually won. It was an all around lucky day.
About a half mile down the road there was some construction. They had grinded the road down in preparation of repaving it. I was on the grove/grinded road going down a hill and at the bottom was a red light. I started to break and nothing happened, I was just skidding across the tops of the groves. I actually started into the intersection when the light turned green for me; so once again I was one lucky SOB.
I finally made it to the game and his team actually won. It was an all around lucky day.
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From: Central Oklahoma
RE: Scariest Ride
Mine happened when two horses ran across the road in front of me. They just came out of nowhere. I was going about 70 and managed to hit the six foot gap between the lead horse and the follower. Ruined a damn fine pair of new underware on that one.
Road Master
Joined: Jun 2005
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From: Weatherford, Texas
RE: Scariest Ride
Thunderstorm in downtown St. Louis Freeway at night, couldn't see crap, had a cager cut in front of me to exit and fortunately I was traveling at a safe speed and distance. I kept my eye on him knowing he might just do it....pulled off a bit later to spend the night.....no more riding at nigh in the rain!
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From: Rhode Island
RE: Scariest Ride
Mine was watching a cager turn left directly into my path. I braked, tried to avoid collision, and hit head on. Went flying through the air like a helicopter, clipped a pole and landed in the road. Oh yeah, somewhere in there I probably S#@t myself. Oh well all is good now, still slightly disabled from a broken back, but it matches my mental disability 
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From: Michigan
RE: Scariest Ride
Rode for 2 1/2 years in CA without a car so this list is long and scary. I hit an owl that swooped down on me and almost got plastered by a cager driving the wrong way on the Esocondido freeway. It was a divided highway and it was 2 oclock in the morning and I was in the far left lane, I came up to the bottom of a hill on the freeway and for some reason I decided to move to the right side of the freeway. As I crested the hill a car came on my side of the divided highway going the wrong way. I still to this day don't know why I changed lanes but I guess the man above wasn't done with me yet. To this point still the most scared I've ever been on a bike.
A little off topic but tmitchellof PG that is the niceset Fatboy I've ever seen good job.
A little off topic but tmitchellof PG that is the niceset Fatboy I've ever seen good job.
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