Highway debris

[airboss]

Thanks for making me druge this one up Rad.

Coming up on and RV , getting ready to pass, when he runs over a tire gator and takes out the bottom of his full waste tank! mg2:

Next stop CAR WASH, glad I drove that day.

 

[650cent]

On a previous bike, with my daughter on the back, a truck in the oncoming lane spit out its drive shaft right in front of us. The shaft skidded across our lane and ended in the ditch. I just kept going and considered myself lucky.

 

[Bounce]

On the back country roads the DAs cut their grass and the discharge (grass, paper, cans,etc..) is all over the road. One morning as I went around a turn at 70mph it went from nice smooth pavement to green freshly cut grass. I was a slippin and a slidin and I don't know how I stayed up. Parked the bike and cleaned my shorts before I walked to the guy's house. He was actually apologetic and hadn't thought of motorcycles. Said he wouldn't do that again and he has been true to his word. :angry2:

very good reminder about not out riding your site line. with SFO and other events happening in the near future, there's nothing like a reminder like this.

be careful for grass clippings and crazy lost weminz!

 

[twowheelnut]

Oh, a few small chunks of tires here and there, but mostly suicidal critters of the small variety while on the bike. The car; a pick axe head that took out my front left tire and wheel.

 

[wpbfjr]

when i worked for fire rescue, going lights and sirens to a medical call, driving a dodge ram... major road, dimly lit, WHAM, WTF!? a junk hauler had dropped a bale of cardboard in the road moments before i got there... end of call for me...

saddest thing i saw at fire rescue: +/- 1985 one of those pull behind cement mixers came unhooked from the p/u truck hauling it... the mixer crossed the center line, took out a woman going the opposite direction... the hitch went right through her...

 

[okmac]

Somewhere in S.D. on the interstate, I was closing on an 18 wheeler getting ready to pull in the left lane and pass when I noticed something coming out from under it. It turned out that a truck in front of him was dropping some square bails of hay and the 18 wheeler in front of me was hitting them and breaking then in smaller chunks. That was one time when I was happy to stay in his wheel tracks as that kept me between the chucks that came flying out.

Mac

 

[donaldb]

Strangely enough I have a cattle tale. I worked 10+ years as a independant insurance field claims adjuster. During that time, I accepted a new assignment via telephone. Seems a cattle truck had over turned close to Hattiesburg, MS Hwy 98 bypass and the HWY Patrol was on site and cattle were roaming the HWY. Needed someone on the scene ASAP, so I contacted a local cowboy who gathered up a few other cowboys and they came to the scene w/horses and trailers, etc. (Nobody hit any roaming bovine). In the meantime, I am at the scene and it seems the trailer had overturned on the shoulder of the HWY and busted open allowing some to escape, others however, were not so lucky. Some were dead in the trailer, others were hung in the trailer rails, some upside down, others badly injured. The HWY patrolman could not shoot the cows/steers because as I recall if he fired his service weapon, there was a ton of explaining he would have to do and paper work. So, that job was left to me, I had the displeasure of blasting 9 bovine into oblivion w/9mm between the large brown eyes. I obtained approval by the HWY patrolman before retrieving the weaponry from my glove box.

Anyway, back to the subject at hand, after dark on I20 I ran over (while riding the FJR) what I believe to have been a plastic pickup truck tailgate liner. Scared the crap out of me....................one of several reasons why I do not ride at night anymore. The black plastic blended with the asphalt combined with the darkness and my old eyes made it impossible to see in time to react. All I could do was roll off the throttle and pucker the seat, followed by a rapid clap..clap sound, it was over and I survived

 

[Barabus]

A Harley crossed over a double yellow and almost hit me. A Harley does qualify as "road debris", right? In any event, stay right and stay alive.

 

[jwilly]

I had a situation one night going up I-75 in my company car. Road is about 5 lanes wide at this point, semi in the 2nd lane from the right and I thought I see the back door come open. I get on the gas and get over a couple more lanes to left to see if I can make the driver aware of what has happened.

As I'm about 2 car lengths behind him and over 2 lanes a pallet jack rolls out of the back of the truck, bounces and plants right into the front of an SUV. It crushed the front of the SUV and somehow the driver coasts off the side of the road. I chase down the truck and finally get his attention and get him to pull over, while calling 911 at the same time. I will try to find the picture that I have of the SUV and post it up later.

This is the type of pallet jack that I'm referring to:

 

[HaulinAshe]

No way can I run with this crowd!

Everything that crosses my path seems to have a heartbeat. Bambi immediately following a fast right-hander, big red fox, big black dawgs in heat, dead Bambi(s) all pre-heated and swelled, and of course the (now) infamous turkey buzzard into the mirror run.

Funny thing is, I really don't WANT to join in.

 

[radman]

I'm curious how you determined the dawg estrus thing........... :blink: Or maybe not.

 

[FJRMGM]

Radman - don't get him started about the dog estrus thingy..

 

[kaitsdad]

Just this past Sunday morning at 5:45 am on my way to breakfast in Joshua Tree (110 miles - I needed a ride) I'm moving (cough) along in the car pool lane of the 60 fwy eastbound -

And I get lit up by red and blue lights on my six - ..........

I hit the turn signal, "yes sir, Mr. Officer, Sir !" and proceed to move across 4 lanes of freeway to the right shoulder -

but the LEO moves past me - lights ablaze, and starts doing a traffic stop !!!

At this point, I figure I must be wanted in 7 states or something, and I'm being swarmed....

However, he gets traffic stopped - he and his fellow LEO exit the vehicle - and they walk over to the carpool lane, grab the edge of a PICKUP BED LINER that was lying across the lane right in my path, and drag it across the freeway to the right shoulder.

Me .... I'm hoping that my stitch will dry quickly -

Interesting - I wonder how my encounter with the bed liner would have worked out .......

 

[HaulinAshe]

I'm curious how you determined the dawg estrus thing........... :blink: Or maybe not.

I easily recognized the look on one of the pursuer's faces. I see it often in the mirror.

 

[Barabus]

Just this past Sunday morning at 5:45 am on my way to breakfast in Joshua Tree (110 miles - I needed a ride) I'm moving (cough) along in the car pool lane of the 60 fwy eastbound -
And I get lit up by red and blue lights on my six - ..........

I hit the turn signal, "yes sir, Mr. Officer, Sir !" and proceed to move across 4 lanes of freeway to the right shoulder -

but the LEO moves past me - lights ablaze, and starts doing a traffic stop !!!

At this point, I figure I must be wanted in 7 states or something, and I'm being swarmed....

However, he gets traffic stopped - he and his fellow LEO exit the vehicle - and they walk over to the carpool lane, grab the edge of a PICKUP BED LINER that was lying across the lane right in my path, and drag it across the freeway to the right shoulder.

Me .... I'm hoping that my stitch will dry quickly -

Interesting - I wonder how my encounter with the bed liner would have worked out .......

Hal, clean living and your guardian angel. You are lucky. Would be a shame to mess up Wonky just as you get him (it is a him, right?) dialled in. Also, I find this to be another advantage to wearing a hi-viz stich. Nobody will know!

 

[NoCage]

I almost forgot... I nearly nailed a fox once... just like Skooter and one of TWN's ho's at WFO. :drag:

 

[RsvlFeej]

1981 or so, watched a doe bounce across the road followed by her 2 week-old fawn. I recall thinking, "Boy, I hope she didn't have twins." just as the second Bambi came bounding behind the first. Applied lots of brakes and hit the gap between the two babies at about 80 mph (I'm less inclined to do triple digits in deer country now that I'm 26 years older).

Couple types of birds have decided to commit suicide - starling and a mourning dove. The dove exploded much more satisfactorily. Both left enough motor meat / feathers attached to the bike for positive ID.

Big chunk of black asphalt (frost-heaved?) on a black road at dusk caused a tank-slapper on the Connie about 5 years ago.

Clipped a piece of insulation board (same dimensions as a sheet of 1 1/2" plywood, but way less heavy) several months ago on the FJR - friggin thing was blowing in the traffic draft, but I had time to stand on the pegs and pull up on the handlebars since I couldn't figure out which way to dodge a target that was moving so erratically.

My ex-BIL drove a cattle truck and got lit up on a big hill by the CHP. Lots of chatter over the CB about whether he'd obey the LEO within the next few miles while still on the hill and then try to get the truck rolling again or ignore the cruiser lights until he got to a place easier to start the truck moving. He finally pulled over and in the mirror saw an extremely irate officer walking up - covered head-to-toe in cow sh*t. He had been writing a ticket on the side of the road when my BIL drove by - just as one of his cow passengers was relieving herself. First and only thing said by the LEO, "You're paying the dry-cleaning bill for this."

 

[jestal]

editted to remove any political content

 

[Scab]

Wild Turkey.

The one with wings.

 

[weekend rider]

Wow, there is a lot of junk comming from cars trucks and where ever tring to get you.

Everyone must be living and riding right to have surrived all of the fallen objects. I only have

dodged 2x4s wild turkeys, deer rocks,pipe, car parts, clothes, cattle, tree limbs,gators,thats all up

till now . If it is out there you will have a chance to dodge it or pay the price for some elses mistake

for not securing it down.

When I follow a car, pick-up or truck or and they are carring a load on there roof or in there bed

as I approach them I start looking to see if there load is tied down or just laying there loose ready to come off and cause a problem . If I see the latter I crank ot up and go around and also try to tell them about there load being a danger to others on the road.

Hitting one of any of those objects would cause me to look like this :angry2: instead of looking like

this wekend rider