Ran into an interesting obstacle on the last ride.
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Road Master
Joined: May 2010
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From: Alabama
Thanks guys.
I would really like to take full credit for saving a crash with my masterful, talented, superb riding skills.
I know thats not the case. I truly believe a little higher power may have been involved here. I don't know why we didn't crash.
It was truly like being on marbles, very unsettling. It rated very very high on the butt pucker scale.
RIDE SAFE.
I would really like to take full credit for saving a crash with my masterful, talented, superb riding skills.
I know thats not the case. I truly believe a little higher power may have been involved here. I don't know why we didn't crash.
It was truly like being on marbles, very unsettling. It rated very very high on the butt pucker scale.
RIDE SAFE.
Tourer
Joined: Oct 2010
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From: Central IN
Living in the midwest, this past fall the wife & I were riding with another couple on some of the back highways.
In the fall the farmers are busy reaping the benefits of their hard summer's work. Some are more particular in how they haul their bounty than others...
We rode up to a 90 deg curve that corn all through it... Saw it early enough to get us all slowed down & through it upright, but I still have the pucker prints on my seat... And underwear.... Think I need a new set of grips to get rid of the finger impressions....
Glad ya was able to keep it upright.
In the fall the farmers are busy reaping the benefits of their hard summer's work. Some are more particular in how they haul their bounty than others...
We rode up to a 90 deg curve that corn all through it... Saw it early enough to get us all slowed down & through it upright, but I still have the pucker prints on my seat... And underwear.... Think I need a new set of grips to get rid of the finger impressions....
Glad ya was able to keep it upright.
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Ran into an interesting obstacle on the last ride.
Yesterday afternoon coming home with 3 bikes on a curvy , narrow country road. I'm 1st, wife 2nd and a couple on the 3rd. 45-50mph. Rounding a curve there's a armadillo about 30 ft ahead at the centerline running slowly across left to right. Vehicle coming from other direction . Wife a little to close at my right rear. Hit the brakes hard, wife did the same just missing me. 3rd bike hit too much front brake, lost it, reversed ends, went down. Rider injured shoulder, ribs. Passenger had comminuted fx R elbow (could'nt find a missing bone slice at the scene), fx R shoulder joint and cracked ribs. 1st surgery was late yesterday, more to follow. All wearing helmets. Friggin armadillos. you've just got to be alert...and some lucky.
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From: Newport news, Virginia
I had an unnerving experience with pea gravel also. Wife and I had a dentist appointment. pulled into the parking lot and it was covered in pea gravel 4" deep. I had wifey get off the bike. I wrestle it around and get 'er parked and go inside. I get called in and take a seat. The dental asst takes my BP and calls in the DR. They asked if I was OK. I said sure. They were getting ready to call 911 because my BP was 215 over 110. They thought I was having a heart attack. I explained trying to wrestle a 1000 lb bike in your pea gravel parking lot and see what YOUR BP would be like!
Road Warrior
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From: Northern Colorado
Missouri has a "New and Imaginative" experience for many riders, they have a chip and seal technique for secondary roads where they oil then cover it with power plant cinders or sand up to 3" deep then rough oil it AGAIN. No warnings, just loose gravel fresh oil signs when they do it, I spent two days digging the build up of 'road' from inside my fenders and on the engine the last time they did this on the road to my work and I had ridden in. Stuff sticks like glue to anything BUT the road and is like swimming in a sand pile on a bike.
Road Master
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From: nw Kansas
amen to that i detoured all fall avoiding those roads in Colorado and Kansas , i was riding last week down our small town main street when a truck hauling old tires in the lane coming at me turned off to his right throwing 4 tractor tires off and rolling down the road barely missed them weaving in and out on a cobblestone main street (those suckers are slick) pucker factor 8.5 thanks god my new seat is firm so i didnt have to dig it out of my buttocks !
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Road Warrior
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From: Mid West
Seems we have all had our 'points of interest', I would not wish the crap they put on roads around here on anyone else. I have ridden gravel, chip and seal, and all manner of secondary road repaves but the worst has to be loose pea gravel and sand; although, my worst lay-down was in rain on coarse concrete when a semi passed me and all I could see was a wall of spray, now that was a bad day!! The sensation of skipping on a road on the seat of your pants with no scooter then wondering where the hell it went is another I would not wish on anyone!! Harder still to unpucker with concrete pounded up the crack!!
Definite good luck on your side, ride easy.
Definite good luck on your side, ride easy.
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From: Florence, MT (Bitterroot Valley)
One of my buddies went down. Pea gravel in the middle of the road while he was making a left turn. Crushed his left leg, surgery, metal inserted, pins, cast, etc. His riding days may be over. He said he hasn't decided yet, but not looking forward to getting back on. Sad to see.