Nice 80 mile ride to the range and back today, nice Jan weather for Florida.(But no twisties just straight flat roads with a lot of drivers trying to kill you!) Got me thinking, about the stuff that is just laying there on the road trying to kill us. What is the most memorable debris you have hit, you know the stuff that is just there coming out from under the car or truck in front of you with little or no warning?
I can recall a chunk of 4x4 I hit on my old Yamaha, rode the front wheel after that for a-ways. One night in the rain I hit a dead deer on my Pacific Coast,it was just THERE from under that car. I see chunks of truck tire carcass all over, down here we call them alligators, cause if you drive over them with a car they can jump-up and bite it. I saw a real alligator laying across the other lane once, after I got by it I looked up and saw a 18 wheeler barreling  towards it. I waved franticly at him and pointed, then I heard his air brakes come on, I think I made a buddy that day. Don't know what happened to the gator thou.
This site has followers around the world, lets hear what strange stuff you all have hit, or just missed. Kangaroos? Lions? Just plain old t-boning cars or trucks don't count, we have all done that, or close to it.

There was this 30 lb.dog that started rolling when the front tire hit it , rolled even faster when the bottom of the motor and mufflers passed over it , and by time the back tire got to it - it was rolling fast enough that the rear tire pushed it along instead of hopping over it.   Well after I caught on to what was going on , I twisted it open and jumped the rear tire on over the dog.

Hey Gizzo. I live in Houston, Texas but some 20 years ago or so I worked for a company that had offices in Australia, one in Perth and one in Brisbane. I had to go call on clients, mainly mining companies throughout Australia. I do not remember the town I was in but I had a very early appointment at a remote site about an hour and a half from the small town at which I spent the night. So at around 6 or so in the morning I was on the road heading to this mine site out in the middle of nowhere. It was a beautiful day, I was the only car on the road so I may have been going a little fast. Way down the road I see what appears to be a man on the edge of the road, as I get closer I see it is a rather large kangaroo. Cool I thought, a real live kangaroo. I thought it was neat and that as I approached it would go back into the boonies. Well, the durned thing waited until the very last second and decided to hop across the road. I slammed on the brakes, did a 360 and then some but somehow missed the kangaroo by the skin of my teeth. I just sat there for a few minutes, made sure I had not soiled myself, thanked God for his mercy, and eventually drove much more slowly to my meeting.

A few years ago we were in Highland County, Virginia near Bluegrass.  The road was covered with little frogs, they were impossible to avoid, we must have smooshed about a hundred.

runwyrlph wrote on 01/11/16 at 09:55:25:


I had that same experience outside of New Orleans except it was giant black bugs. I think they're called Catalpa bugs or something. They were everywhere.

A few years ago, I was riding north on I-25 in Colorado, overtaking a pickup truck.. Something just "didn't seem right", so I pulled into the left lane early, when I was still about 1/4 mile behind him. Just as I was passing, a clothes dryer floated up out of the pickup's box, clearing the closed tailgate and disintegrating on the asphalt.

If I'd waited just a little longer to change lanes.....? Like every biker, I've had my share of near-misses/close calls, but that was the weirdest one so far.