road hazards - war stories

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I hit a mattress with a car. Shit got tangled up around one of the front tires. Took about an hour to get it out.

[ChicknStripEatr]

For those familiar with the area, remember Airport Rd in Warwick before they repaved it?

I was about 15 car lengths behind a box truck that had a few ladders on the roof. I was traveling in the right lane of a 4 lane road the truck was in the left traveling in the same direction as me.

Guy loses a 28 foot extension ladder off the roof it lands in the left lane, I'm thinking I'm in the clear watching it slide until it turns perpendicular to the lane of travel and it starts extend to it's max length stretching across both lanes. The road has a 6" breakdown lane and with oncoming traffic that was my ONLY escape. Pucker moment!

[ChicknStripEatr]

One time we left the Complex.......

There was your first mistake.

[obsolete]

about a 2/3' section of 4x4 spit out from under a truck. Throttle up and hit it square. My rims are still dented.

The drain plug on Carla's bike let go on an off ramp and oiled the back tire. I pooped.

[TimmyB]

big ol' piece of angle iron across a corner on T-Road and the next week I goosed it under a falling tree on EP road, damn roadside lumberjacks.

[rbrais]

We were down in south Carolina one weekend. Ran over a rock and got a rear flat on the highway. No big deal. But there were no shops open until Monday. Dumped 2 cans of fix-a-flat and it worked. Rode all evening and forgot about it. Then I did a stand-up and set it down at 120 to dive off the highway. By the end of the ramp I was riding on the rim. Oops. Dumbass.

[Danz19899]

best one that i can remember is a smashed box spring in the middle lane of 95N in the twisty part in providence . . . . ya thank god there was no one in the right lane cause i just kinda went lol

[jwm2k3]

Queen size mattress in the middle of 95 at about 3am. Too fast to swerve or slow down. The GSXR just took it in stride. The rider shit his pants.

[gadget]

Huge dragonfly swooped right into the dead center of my visor doing 80mph. Felt like someone hit me in head with a baseball bat. Green goo completely covering my view. First I pooped then I opened my visor to pull over. My ears were still ringing when I finally got stopped.

We were doing about 50-60 mph when I saw a squirrel fall out of a tree and bounce off of Solgirl and then ran in front of me. She hardly flinched. I was laughing all the way to the next light.

[gregp]

Dual sport riding an a KDX200 10 years ago, I was zipping down the pavement. I merged onto a cart road, going maybe 35 mph and caught a thin steel cable straight across my neck! The cable had pink ribbons hung from it, but they had faded with time and blended perfectly with the fall foliage. My wife cam driving by just as I was picking myself up off of the ground clutching my neck. I spent the rest of that day in the hospital with a partially collapsed trachea, and all of the skin missing from my throat.
A few years later, I was riding my brother's WP modified SR500 around some twisties at a good clip, and the countershaft seal blew out, promptly coating the rear tire with 10w40. I slithered to a safe stop -barely.

[fjrrider RI]

Place: Orlando, FL
Time: 11:00 pm
Weather: January cool 30ish
The Story: Just left school at the exact intersection picture. Pulling out and heading North on OBT. Teachers warned everyone of a frost warning before we left. Pull up to the stop sign and wait for traffic to die down a little so I can dart across the 6 lane road. Creep foward so I'm in between the cross the cross walk and stop line. There is a couple big rigs heading North and a bunch of cars at the main intersection heading toward me in the Southbound lane. I get on the gas and go to pull out then all of a sudden Vin Deisel comes out of no where and comes flying on the inside land past the two big rigs. OS raction kicks in i get on the throttle quick and hard just in time to brake the rear loose on the two 3' reflective tape pieces on for the cross walk. I slid almost to the middle of the intersection and the bike spun in circles on it side just past the middle turn lane. Thank god one of my buddies was about 3 spots behind me at the stop sign he took his big ass Tundra over the curb and blocked the Southbound lane so I could get up and get the bike into the Wendy's parking lot.

lucky ass bastard!!

[rbrais]

Watched my uncle run over a beaver with his Gold Wing. Think he shit his pants. That was one flat beaver after he got done with it!

[fjrrider RI]

Queen size mattress in the middle of 95 at about 3am. Too fast to swerve or slow down. The GSXR just took it in stride. The rider shit his pants.

cool just like the deer I jumped! Nice story after, but shit pants while flying up in the air! How do those pro jumpers do it.

[tonyd]

Dead 500lb Pig in the middle of I40 in NC.

[01xj]

Dual sport riding an a KDX200 10 years ago, I was zipping down the pavement. I merged onto a cart road, going maybe 35 mph and caught a thin steel cable straight across my neck! The cable had pink ribbons hung from it, but they had faded with time and blended perfectly with the fall foliage. My wife cam driving by just as I was picking myself up off of the ground clutching my neck. I spent the rest of that day in the hospital with a partially collapsed trachea, and all of the skin missing from my throat.
A few years later, I was riding my brother's WP modified SR500 around some twisties at a good clip, and the countershaft seal blew out, promptly coating the rear tire with 10w40. I slithered to a safe stop -barely.

That has always been my biggest fear riding my father in laws snow machine in the winter. Glad you made out alright.

[jwm2k3]

Dead 500lb Pig in the middle of I40 in NC.

BACON!

[rbrais]

Friggin' woman drivers! (No offense to any women here.)

Heading to work this morning on some down-hill twisties (and I was on the Shadow, so I was not hauling) and this lady in a mini-van cut the corner. I was already hugging the white line since it was a blind curve. Had to get all the way to the edge of pavement and I could have reached out and touched the van.

If I had my truck it would have been ugly.

[yesterdayze]

Dead serious... coming off an intersection, turning left up a hill my rear tire slipped on a banana peel... no kidding. Didn't lose it but slipped the bike for a second. My buddy coming up behind me pulls up at the next light to ask what in the world that was. When I told him he laughed and thought I was kidding until a little later we were all riding back through and this time he slipped on it and everyone had a chance to see that it really was a banana peel.

Also had a deer bolt out in front of me while I was doing about 40 - fortunately for me it was coming from the other side of the road and the truck in that lane didn't even slow and hit it dead on... this was on my way out of work, less than a mile away. People from work got all backed up on the road... I think I scared my coworkers when I calmly got off the bike, took the helmet off, pulled my gun out of the bike and shot the deer point blank a couple times to put it out of it's misery. Oh... and yeah, I work at a prestigious place in the middle of town so not exactly a common site to see.

[LaRNZ]

one from a guy i met camping: guy had scars to prove it.

was riding sportbike in t-shirt jeans. Area he was in was not under construction last time he was there, no signs indicating any changes. went into a construction area - company did not put any signs out. i think it was water pipes on side of road. one of those massive steal plates was either improperly placed or managed to move a little over the night. So the plate moved back enough off the hole it was covering for his front wheel to sink in and launch him over the bars. He landed on top of the guardrails and slid ON TOP a section or two and fell over onto embankment. He then stood up in shock and his intestines fell out, and he collapsed and said he looked down and could see his heart beating in his chest, and he held his intestines in his hands, as he was split wide open from the top of his sternum to his belly button. luckily someone was behind him and got help quickly and he lived. gots a whole bunch of money from construction company, and now looks likes someone performed an autopsy on him. has huge scars from his shoulders meeting at his sternum down to his bellybutton forming a "Y".
Guardrails have terrorized me ever since.

[fjrrider RI]

one from a guy i met camping: guy had scars to prove it.

was riding sportbike in t-shirt jeans. Area he was in was not under construction last time he was there, no signs indicating any changes. went into a construction area - company did not put any signs out. i think it was water pipes on side of road. one of those massive steal plates was either improperly placed or managed to move a little over the night. So the plate moved back enough off the hole it was covering for his front wheel to sink in and launch him over the bars. He landed on top of the guardrails and slid ON TOP a section or two and fell over onto embankment. He then stood up in shock and his intestines fell out, and he collapsed and said he looked down and could see his heart beating in his chest, and he held his intestines in his hands, as he was split wide open from the top of his sternum to his belly button. luckily someone was behind him and got help quickly and he lived. gots a whole bunch of money from construction company, and now looks likes someone performed an autopsy on him. has huge scars from his shoulders meeting at his sternum down to his bellybutton forming a "Y".
Guardrails have terrorized me ever since.

holey shit? u must be kidding! I think he takes the thread prize. as my buddy used to say see ya wouldn't wanna be ya!

[Jim]

i was on a group ride to the vanilla bean cafe and Jaynnus passed me. I kept looking at her bum, that I didnt notice the turn coming up & almost lost it.

[rbrais]

i was on a group ride to the vanilla bean cafe and Jaynnus passed me. I kept looking at her bum, that I didnt notice the turn coming up & almost lost it.

That's why I don't ride with women. It'll kill ya.