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Title: Road Hazards Post by verslagen1 on 01/07/09 at 09:35:04 Saw this in a Gold Wing Newsletter... (Ghostly) Road Hazards by Lou Caspary I know a San Diegan who was riding with 20 bikes somewhere. All 20 bikes went down and slid hundreds of feet on a 2” carpet of oil from an oil tanker truck. Many of us relax on the freeway. “What can happen, just go straight, this is a piece of cake”. But sometimes, you might only have a millisecond to decide between the right and wrong move. And sometimes, only a gust of wind can save your life. I will tell you about the most bizarre of hazards that I have ever seen – it just happened coming back from JBJ’s yesterday. Before I do, lets go over a short list of what I have seen on the freeways and roads over the years: Armadillo (Texas) Alligator (Key West) Living room couch Rake Ladder Mattress Mother Turkey with 5 baby turkeys (Blue Ridge Parkway) Black Bear (Idaho) Moose (Canada) Frogs, crabs and turtles Overturned cars on fire Thousands of onions from an overturned semi. Once, all cars in the fast lane were hooked together like a NASCAR race, barely 10 feet between each car. In a flash, one car spun out, and ended up 180ş in the same lane, at a dead stop. Panic stops from all involved. Other road hazards abound. Did you know that deer, cows and even squirrels are to blame for more than 26,000 injuries a year? Half were caused by hitting, half were caused from trying to avoid the animal. According to Motor Cyclist magazine, they have encountered: Barbeques Picnic Coolers Chainsaw 2000 gallons of monkey excrement A fullsize construction portable toilet in the middle of I15 But back to my most bizarre award. I was in the fast lane, southbound as the freeway curved left. No cars were ahead of me, but a SUV was behind. Then I saw it. 100 feet ahead of me was a 15’18’ tall plastic cover, the type that might be used to cover a couch from dust. It was about 56’ wide, and was STANDING UP in the wind, covering my lane. It was being moved around by car vortexes, AND SEEMED TO BE WAVING TO ME. If I moved right, it because, at 80 mph, I was closing on this ghostly apparition fast. It was only by pure luck that my left handlebar missed the thing by about a foot. I can only imagine the outcome if it had covered, and then got dragged, by the front of the Goldwing. It would have enveloped me at 80 mph. Because there is nothing to be learned from this experience, as you could live several more lifetimes and never see anything like this again, you have to remember: Look ahead. Even a 12 second forward scan will not help you all the time if the freeway bends left and you can only see 11 seconds ahead. Let’s be alert out there! source: www.gwrra-ca1f.org/news/Newsletters/2005_01.pdf |
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Title: Re: Road Hazards Post by Paladin. on 01/07/09 at 11:25:47 You also want to avoid following rolling billboards, AKA vans, trucks, and anything else that blocks your forward view. Wife was driving behind one when the vehicle in front of the billboard cut the to right and started braking. The billboard went left and started braking. Wendy was stuck in the middle, now following a bouncing office chair that had fallen off a flatbed truck. She nails the brakes, starts to go sideways, switches to the accelerator to stop the skid and nails the chair. Fortunately she was in the '77 K2500 GMC pickup truck. Chair impacted right front and shattered, marking the paint on the bumper. |
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Title: Re: Road Hazards Post by SavRon on 01/07/09 at 11:34:04 Quote:
WTF ?? I've only been riding since August and so far I've encountered and avoided ( luckly ), Deer, Snake, Squirrels, Chipmunk, Rubber Bungie Cords, and other Motorists left of center. Sometimes I wonder if I'm riding on a highway or an obsticle course...Geezzzzzzzzzz :-/ |
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Title: Re: Road Hazards Post by verslagen1 on 01/07/09 at 11:55:00 6D434E4C447C4E594E484A2F0 wrote:
How the heck do you get 2000 gals of monkey $h!t and why would you truck it anywhere? Reminds me of the joke, the prize winning pig, the cork and the monkey. |
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Title: Re: Road Hazards Post by daweise1 on 01/07/09 at 12:35:21 Best one I have seen.... Thousands of Victoria Secret Bras and Panties covering a freeway. The truck driver did not secure the back doors and lost the load on the way to our offices..... Someone had to go pick all those up. ;) |
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Title: Re: Road Hazards Post by PipJones on 01/07/09 at 14:01:56 man....... you guys must drive on some very interesting highways... the only thing i've almost hit (besides manholes) was a rabbitt. besides that, rocks are about all that are in the way. where are these obsticle courses your guys are riding on. must be fun. |
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Title: Re: Road Hazards Post by Paladin. on 01/07/09 at 16:44:53 2421372529332571400 wrote:
1. Just where do you work that you are having thousands of Victoria Secret Bras and Panties delivered to your offices? 2. Are you hiring? |
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Title: Re: Road Hazards Post by serowbot on 01/07/09 at 18:33:06 ".....thousands of Victoria Secret Bras and Panties...." Slick as silk sheets....... , makes for a soft landing though... --------------------------------------------------------------------- Riding with some buddies once, through a roadwork area, when the wind caught one of the roadwork warning signs and nearly decapitated one of us.... missed by inches... |
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Title: Re: Road Hazards Post by justin_o_guy2 on 01/07/09 at 18:41:36 I was riding with my (former) BIL. He was pulling 1/2 of a doublewide. He didnt believe the 55 or 60 MPH Max they told him. Just as we crested a small hill I saw a ripple run down the side, then all the siding blew off & was sliding down the road, spinning & twirling , total chaos. The first vehicle over the hill behind us was a bike. The guy stood up & started dancing that bike thru the wreckage. he stayed off of every bit of it & rode on. He was a good rider. |
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Title: Re: Road Hazards Post by daweise1 on 01/07/09 at 20:23:02 I work for Victoria Secret Home offices in Columbus, the parent company is Limitedbrands..... Yes, they are always hiring it seems....... |
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Title: Re: Road Hazards Post by Beatduck on 01/07/09 at 21:02:36 Yup. Had a small cardboard box fly out of the back of a pick up two days ago. Missed me by about a foot. Never a dull moment....... |
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Title: Re: Road Hazards Post by serowbot on 01/07/09 at 21:21:19 7F7A6C7E72687E2A1B0 wrote:
I bet they are... TRUCK DRIVER NEEDED, ;D.... |
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Title: Re: Road Hazards Post by Gary On A Savage on 01/07/09 at 21:36:37 6F796E736B7E73681C0 wrote:
I bet they are... TRUCK DRIVER NEEDED, ;D....[/quote] Drivers probably have a hard time keeping eyes on the road, and off the product catalogs ;) |
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Title: Re: Road Hazards Post by verslagen1 on 01/07/09 at 21:43:06 3B3D2E250333323D032F3D2A3D3B395C0 wrote:
I bet they are... TRUCK DRIVER NEEDED, ;D....[/quote] Drivers probably have a hard time keeping eyes on the road, and off the product catalogs ;)[/quote] L, what do they need catalogs for, just go in back of the truck and roll around for a bit.... guess you know why the back was open. ;D |
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Title: Re: Road Hazards Post by Ed L. on 01/08/09 at 07:08:03 Someone lost a load of shoes on I-4 over in Orlando last week, really tied things up for about a hour. Things I've hit on the freeway in cars include a umbrella which poked a hole in the muffler and a skid which tore the entire exhaust system off the bottom of the car. It really su@ks to be stuck in fast moving traffic and see something in the lane ahead knowing you have to go over it. |
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Title: Re: Road Hazards Post by verslagen1 on 01/08/09 at 08:21:25 434650424E544216270 wrote:
Los Angeles branch? Wages good, or just perky... I mean good perks? |
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Title: Re: Road Hazards Post by serowbot on 01/08/09 at 10:07:25 I ran over a full sheet of plywood once,... going over an overpass in traffic, surfed it for about a foot... on the Savage.....,.found god for minute .... |
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Title: Re: Road Hazards Post by justin_o_guy2 on 01/08/09 at 13:56:30 My dad was a company man in the oilfield, watching after several rigs & ran just over 100,000 miles up on his car one year. He didnt obey the speed limit much. One night he saw an object in the road & couldnt miss it completely, so he decided to take it dead center, so he wouldnt risk getting flipped. It was an 18wheelers spare, rim & tire, all aired up.That thing went up under the car, lifting the front tires off the ground. The sidewall of a truck tire offers a lot of traction & he said the car stopped, REAL QUICK!! Tore the heck outta the front end (suspension,steering). IIRC, he had to get another car. Bringing the Matrix home last night I saw something in the road & was glad I had no oncoming so I could swerve wide. When I got about 50 feet away it became clear enough. Some guy was just bent over & appeared to be tying a shoe. Wadda Maroon! Dark clothes, stopped, in the road, IJJITT! |
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Title: Re: Road Hazards Post by T Mack 1 on 01/10/09 at 11:01:38 Riding to work one day two years ago. This small pick-up with an old guy in, going about same speed as me (50'ish) all of a sudden he slows way down. Well, I go from the comfortable 2 second spacing to "too close" real fast. I'm trying to get some distance between us again when ..... from under the center of truck comes a freshly run over ground-hog. At 30-40'ish, you have no time...... I ran over it ... dead center of the tire, direct hit .... I was off the seat only a few inches but it felt like those extreme motocross jumps you see on TV. Somehow I came back down and the bike just wobbled a little as I got my senses. WTF went thru my mind..... and the "I'm alive" thought we've all had. |
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Title: Re: Road Hazards Post by bill67 on 01/10/09 at 12:42:12 The biggest road hazards I've seen are young girls and old ladies,neither one knows what they want to do. |
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Title: Re: Road Hazards Post by Paladin. on 01/10/09 at 13:39:47 393237376D6C5B0 wrote:
Got that right! Young girl was walking down the sidewalk and when I looked back at traffic it had stopped and I went down in a panic stop. |
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