Too bad you couldnt catch him & get him to pull over,you mite have gotten his company to solve that problem for you.

Or, you mita got a beat down from a trucker,, who knows?

Glad it didnt take you off the bike,

Were you following him or did you just find yourself behind him for a minute, while you were jockeying for a way to pass?

In Summer time I will not ride or even drive next to one. When I am in a line passing one, I pause when I get up close to the rear & wait till I can see the guy in front of me is almost clear, then I goose it & run on past those tires. Ive been driving when they blow, I sure wouyldnt want to have been next to me when that happened. One time I was driving a Mack truck w/o power steering when the Left Front blew. I turned left.. not a thing I could do about it, that wheel wound my arms up, hurt me, but I stood up & started cranking it to the right, or I woulda plowed a power pole. Missed it by Thaaaat much.. That tire blew the fender all to pieces & knocked the crossover fuel line off.
Another one was on a drive axle. The outside tire blew & it was such a blast that it knocked the inner tire off the bead & it went flat too. The concussion was so strong I thot I had been shot.

I count my blessings for still being alive.


You Could be doin that from a hospital bed,, Youre Much better off that just "alive",, you got away! I never even thot about a windshield being more than a WIND shield,.,

What about my question? Was there anything you did that you would do different now that youve had this experience?

Dave wrote on 11/12/12 at 08:16:58:



These folks also do extrude honing.  Without changing anything else, getting the head extrude honed will increase the flow somewhere between 4% and 20% depending on how crude the insides were to start off with.  Kinda pricey, though.