What Odd Things Have You Hit?
#11
Chicago Skyway about 20 yrs ago.Big traffic movin real fast,I hit a 6x6 timber on my BMW and all I felt was a little blip in the bars and I had rode up and over the damn thing like a trick rider.
What a rush,
What a rush,
#12
Years back after I first started riding on the street I hit a turkey (feathers every where) damn near knocked me off of the bike and probably would of if I had been on a cruiser but that time I think the crotch rocket saved me.
I hit a piglet on an old CB900 that I had. I had a opossum ran across the road right at me and thought I had missed it, but some how it ran right into the rear wheel on my VTX it was messy all tangled up in the spokes and chain, blood and guts every where.
BUT it all started way back on a dirt bike trying to herd a couple heffers to the barn, hit one of them with the old XR100, fell over onto the electric fence, talk about lighting your *** up.
I hit a piglet on an old CB900 that I had. I had a opossum ran across the road right at me and thought I had missed it, but some how it ran right into the rear wheel on my VTX it was messy all tangled up in the spokes and chain, blood and guts every where.
BUT it all started way back on a dirt bike trying to herd a couple heffers to the barn, hit one of them with the old XR100, fell over onto the electric fence, talk about lighting your *** up.
#15
Been through swarms of bees, Hit a dove and killed it. Hit a dog years back that took me down. And last year the car in front of me spit a mattress out at me. It hit me so hard it knocked me off the bike at 70 mph. That was by far the strangest and worst thing to have hit me ......So far.
#16
I hit a fence plank that flew off of a rack on a truck I was meeting. It flew up in the air, over to my lane, and hit me on the top of my helmet. I had lowered my head to protect my face.
After a couple of futile attempts to maintain control, I highsided and rolled/bounced/tumbled to a stop. Only damage was a cut chin, road rash on both arms and my back/shoulder, and a totaled CB350.
A few years later I hit a rock about 4 feet high, actually a rock formation, during a desert race. More damage then I care to think about. My TM250 only had a smashed expansion chamber.
Ron
After a couple of futile attempts to maintain control, I highsided and rolled/bounced/tumbled to a stop. Only damage was a cut chin, road rash on both arms and my back/shoulder, and a totaled CB350.
A few years later I hit a rock about 4 feet high, actually a rock formation, during a desert race. More damage then I care to think about. My TM250 only had a smashed expansion chamber.
Ron
#17
Lucky for me, nothing much yet. A guy in front of me hit a chicken once. Another time while riding down a dirt road on dirt bikes, the same guys dad was in front of us and was clothes lined off his dirt bike by a cable that was stretched across the road. The cable caught him right across the chest.
#18
Does an alluminum ladder count as odd? Must have fallen off a truck or something. Back in 1989. Runnin down Interstate 35 in K.C. @ 60 MPH at night back then and no time to react or get around it. A good set of leathers are worth their weight in gold. Ended up with minor bumps, scrapes, and contusions although the scoot was worse off.