Worst riding experience
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From: Windham,Maine
Worst riding experience
Many years ago while riding a Pan Chopper,I flew up behind a Telephone Co truck with rear dual wheels.Something stuck between the tires, a rock,got my attention,at about the same time it flew out and up at me.Of course having no chance to get out of the way it hit me in the middle of the chest.It hurt so bad I was starting to black out before I was able to pull over.
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From: Iron Mountain, Michigan, da U.P., eh?
RE: Worst riding experience
Ouch. Did it leave a mark?
Got hit with a cicada right in the adam's apple which felt like a rubber bullet.
A few years later a chunk fell off a logging truck and hit me in the chest.
Both times going about 60 and sent me reeling but not down.
Now I have a fairing.
Got hit with a cicada right in the adam's apple which felt like a rubber bullet.
A few years later a chunk fell off a logging truck and hit me in the chest.
Both times going about 60 and sent me reeling but not down.
Now I have a fairing.
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From: Prescott, AZ
RE: Worst riding experience
I would think if you were close enough to see something between the rear dual - you just might be too close - of course I wasn't there, so what the hell do I know.. Glad you were able to get pulled over - closest I have come to getting "off" the bike was when a wasp decided to get inside my collar and leave several of his marks before I could get stopped and kill the little guy...
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From: gone 4 good
RE: Worst riding experience
I got a wake up just the other day. I was riding down the highway at about 60 mph. I was enjoying the scenery a bit too much, when I had my left hand on my knee and not paying attention, the car in front of me when over a large something in the road. if I had hit whatever it was at that speed with only one hand in control I would have been a goner. I just thought to myself, WAKE UP, MARK!!!
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From: GA
RE: Worst riding experience
Including the time I t-boned a car at 45 mph, driven by a drunk driver who turned left in front of me and a buddy, flew 65 feet through the air and lived to tell about it? I was on the inside with nowhere to go, my buddy swerved to the rear of the car and fell down, sliding down the road. Thankfully, I was 19 at the time so I bounced instead of broke. I was pretty beat up and required some stitches and the bike was a total, but that was it.
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From: Grottoes Va.
RE: Worst riding experience
i was raceing the wife #1 on my old '68 thumper and had the front tire blow out at around 70. I still don't know how i kept it upright and got it to the side of the road. If i had went down, she would've run over me with the car. I don't race anymore.
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From: Cistern,Tx
RE: Worst riding experience
This was back in 87 or was it 88 hell I don't remember the yr just the bike I had a 87 Softail Custom. I was coming back to Austin one night I was hungry so I pulled over at this place and went in and got me chicken fried steak and they had some cold beer. Finished eating and got back on bike and got a few miles down the road and stomach started cramping. I could not stop fast enough so I just turned my head and sorta leaned over and puked and puked finally got stop and puked some more pulled under a tree and set there a while and it finally passed and made it home. Think I got some food poison. Feel sorry far the car that was behind me they did slow down pretty fast.
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From: CDM, CA
RE: Worst riding experience
i get stung by a bee in the elbow going around 60....i must have hit it dead on the stinger and had the stinger injected at 60 mph into the elbow. biyatch hurt like hell for a day or two :-)
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From: Greater St Louis, MO
RE: Worst riding experience
Speaking of Bees I have a funny story. I had a lowrider about 20 years ago and was riding along a busy secondary highway when I felt something hit me in the throat. A short time later I felt something sting me about three timesunder my left nipple, so I tried to grab it and smash it while pulling the shirt out. While still in motion I pulled the shirt up around my neck, but couldn't get it off because of my helmet. Got to the shoulder and of the road, took off the helmet, inspected the shirt and didn't see the bee. Put my shirt back on and got back on the bike. When I sat down I felt something stinging me in the crack of my ****. It had to be quite a sight to see me, 6'2", 240 lbs, ponytail halfway down my back and a beard halfway down my chest standing there on the side of the road with my drawers around my ankles smacking myself on the ****.