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Message started by Serowbot on 06/20/14 at 15:32:57

Title: Bit of road trouble today...
Post by Serowbot on 06/20/14 at 15:32:57

104' today,... and that's going to be the cool day this week,... so I took off for a Mt Lemmon ride...
Going into the turn lane, the truck in front of me spewed out one of those metal sawhorse type road warning signs from underneath... no way to dodge the spinning beast so I rode over it... It launched me about 6" off the ground both wheels and I came down a little cockeyed...

Lucky to be on the Savage instead of the Harley... the bike seems to naturally right itself pretty smoothly...

Anyway,.. I pull around the corner and into the Wallymart parking lot to inspect the tires... and it's all okay...
I walked over and dragged the road sign out of traffic...
.. then continued on...
Nice on the mountain,... about 75' at the top...
Doused my shirt with water on the way down...
Going from a cool 75' down into 104'+ is brutal... It hits you in waves as you come around specific corners... the last few, you know are coming, but you can''t believe it can actually get hotter than you already are...
...but hey,... I did get a ride... ;)...

Cool... 8-)...

Title: Re: Bit of road trouble today...
Post by raydawg on 06/20/14 at 16:07:06

Glad you're OK buddy :-*

Well I live in a rural area on the island that has no real road maintenance at all. We have dirt/rock shoulders, and it gets moved (dirt and gravel) into the lane, especially on turns. Seems the four wheel tracks make for some funky maneuvering around blind sweeps in the road.....
I have many times got caught with my guard down, going from asphalt to gravel coated asphalt, plus 40 - 50 mph, I just leave my feet on the pegs, let the bike slip back under me, just as long as I don't try to brake or over correct....
It reminds me of riding my dirt bike waaaaaaaay back in those says when slip'n and slide'n was fun ;D
She is a well behaved lady if you let her take control!

Title: Re: Bit of road trouble today...
Post by S-P on 06/20/14 at 16:45:26

YIKES!!! Glad you're OK! I was just at a body shop where a guy was hit by a flying two by four that a semi had run over and spewed out into the front of his car. Scary stuff!

Title: Re: Bit of road trouble today...
Post by pgambr on 06/20/14 at 17:49:34

Glad you are OK Serow. Those close calls really get your heart pumping. I was going to post this to it's own thread but the title is appropriate.

It is unbeeelievable this guy walked away! You have to see it to believe it, really.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/06/20/even-the-motorcyclist-in-this-accident-was-shocked-when-he-saw-the-video-of-what-happened-to-him/

http://bcove.me/655x0f4u

Title: Re: Bit of road trouble today...
Post by verslagen1 on 06/20/14 at 21:52:39

What?
no burnout over the top of it?
sending it flying to the side of the road?

8-)

Cool, just normal blacktop survival skills 901 [smiley=engel017.gif]

never ride faster than your angel can fly.

Title: Re: Bit of road trouble today...
Post by ToesNose on 06/21/14 at 04:16:14

Serow we're all glad to hear how lucky you were, I can't even imaging suddenly getting both wheels off the ground to that degree on a street cruiser unsuspectingly........ pucker factor 9

Title: Re: Bit of road trouble today...
Post by BalingWire on 06/21/14 at 05:43:33

"So you live to die another day." ~James Bond (Die Another Day, 2002)

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfvD_brrrTc[/media]

8-)

Title: Re: Bit of road trouble today...
Post by gerald.hughes on 06/22/14 at 16:28:23

You squids, always having to do stunts. Sorry that I wasn't there to see it, I was down in Patagonia. What did George say?

Title: Re: Bit of road trouble today...
Post by Serowbot on 06/22/14 at 18:34:45

757760737E763C7A67757A7761120 wrote:

What did George say?

Oh, that guy?... He wasn't there... :-?...

Title: Re: Bit of road trouble today...
Post by stinger on 06/23/14 at 11:14:09

The other day I was riding on a freeway near dusk and I was in the inside lane maybe going 65mph. The car in front of me swerved into the center lane and for some reason I followed him. Good thing! someone had dropped a bed mattress off a vehicle and hitting one of those can not be healthy.

Title: Re: Bit of road trouble today...
Post by stinger on 06/23/14 at 11:24:28

Serowbot, is Arizona your home and you have family there? It is pretty there in the spring and fall but Hell during the summer. Rode around the Superstition Mountains one time in 113 degree weather. Felt like I was being cremated alive. Felt like I could have cooked eggs and bacon on my gas tank it was so hot.

Title: Re: Bit of road trouble today...
Post by verslagen1 on 06/23/14 at 12:09:34

The eggs were probably poached whether they were on the tank or not.

:-?

Title: Re: Bit of road trouble today...
Post by Serowbot on 06/23/14 at 15:03:11

Just back from another mountain ride,.. took the Sporty today...

My eggs were poached years ago...
...with the Sporty oil tank under the seat, my eggs are hangin' 'round my knees... ;D...

Title: Re: Bit of road trouble today...
Post by stinger on 06/24/14 at 09:06:05

Well that pretty much does it for me eating eggs ever again!

Title: Re: Bit of road trouble today...
Post by Serowbot on 06/24/14 at 09:14:35

Oysters?... :-?...

Title: Re: Bit of road trouble today...
Post by ToesNose on 06/24/14 at 19:00:33

ROFL!!! ;D