| Author | Message | ||
     Birdy |
Came so close to crashing the other night it scared me half to death. Turning a corner at slow speed (25 mph) and the front end washed out about 10" and then the rear followed with me along for the ride. I didn't crash, a wonder for sure, but my shorts gave their life. I had to know what was going on so went back and found about 5 100 pound bags of builders sand on the sidewalk blown open and the sand all over the road. About then these two twinkies in a beat to death pick up with no bed just a home made flat platform pull up and start yelling at each other about they should have tried the bags down and now they gotta buy more sand. I have learned to look out for gravel on the road here but it's real hard to see sand on the road and in the middle of downtown you don't think about it. I'm just glad I wasn't hauling butt or I'd ended up in a store front. | ||
| Dfishman |
I thought this was gonna be another thread about Buell choppers. | ||
| Preybird1 |
I feel ya on this one. They would be liable for any accidents they caused with the sand. I almost crashed on some gravel the other day because the sun was in my eyes as i went into the corner and i could not see it until i was sliding. | ||
| Ft_bstrd |
Can't tell you how many mangled ladders and 5 gallon buckets of stuff I've seen on the road. Bout tagged a 12" step ladder on the M2 the other day. THAT was scary. | ||
| Preybird1 |
I saw this guy hit a metal rake on the highway and it lodged into the front tire. And man that thing was sparking and the handle was sticking out the fender was whipping around and tearing up the fender as he was trying to pull off to the side. Thank god i wasn't in that lane anymore. | ||
| Slaughter |
... and people still ride fast through turns without being able to see THROUGH the turns. | ||
| Birdy |
Slaughter, this was a corner in downtown. I had a green light and was turning left The sand was just about the same color as the road. I know better than to throw it into a corner without being able to see. This just caught me off guard is all. This is my fault I let my guard down for a second and THAT I know better than to do.  | ||
| Cowboy |
was it rednecks???? or could it have been yankee getto trash???? | ||
| Honolulu_blue_esq |
Or maybe yankee ghetto rednecks? | ||
| Slaughter |
Good point about using common sense and caution in general. I was just doing my usual beyotching about folks who "race" in the twisties when they know that "sometimes" there are rocks, dirt, opposing traffic. (and I re-read my post above and it does sound "preachy") | ||
| Crackhead |
Just wait until you have a hammer jump out of a truck and try to take off your head. | ||
| Trojan |
I was in a Police pursuit once chasing a gang of burglars around the lanes of County Durham. They opened the rear hatch of the car and threw a large TV set, various car parts and trim , the spare wheel and finally a large wood cutters axe at us! The axe bounced in the road and just cleared the top of our windscreen (at around 80mph), so it kind of focussed us up a bit! Needless to say when they were arrested after nearly an hour of chasing around they were 'well arrested' and the police dog accompanying us got to play  ! | ||
| Blake |
Chew toys that wiggle and make noise. More durable than an armadillo? | ||
| Sparky |
Yeah, I hear ya. I'll never forget the time soon after I got my new 2005 Corvette and was taking the 405 off ramp, a tightening up S-turn to Hawthorne Blvd, in a rather spiritedly fashion when in the middle of the tight last turn was a pick-axe. Fortunately the spade part was only about 2 inches thick and the handle was pointed away from me, so there was no drama except for sudden cramping of the anal sphincter. If it were 3" or more thick, this story would've likely had a different ending not quite so funny. | ||
| Pwnzor |
What exactly, if anything, does being a redneck have to do with it? There are careless A*holes in every place I've ever visited. Sparky, I had a '00 Z06 and it seemed like I was always dodging crap in the road, even more so than on any of my bikes... | ||
| Natexlh1000 |
I used to commute early in the morning on the highway and I would see the scariest crap in the road from zombie contractors. Most absurd I ever saw: Ingersoll-Rand air compressor two wheel trailer upside down barely in the breakdown lane. Second most absurd: ENTIRE roll-cage for a large earth mover in the grass upside down. | ||
| Pwnzor |
I always love watching an entire plastic pickup bedliner come flying over the top of me. | ||
| Drkside79 |
personally I love being stuck on a two lane road with an open bed 18 wheeler with god knows what in it blowing crap all over you | ||
| Thumper74 |
Or stuck behind a gravel truck... |
