Sometimes it pays to not ride.

[marcusorelius]

Always expect every driver to do the stupidest thing posible, and often they do!

 

[flyball]

Interesting. A few months ago I was driving behind an oilfield drilling truck in my Ford Ranger pickup waiting for an opportunity to pass. All of the sudden some piece of flattened out metal about 2 feet square comes flying out of his back wheels and is floating about 3 feet off the pavement, headed right for me. On it's way down it goes right under my front left tire and makes one hell of a racket under my truck but unbelievably, no damage. Then I start thinking about "what if?" Lesson learned,when on the feej I approach with caution and either back off and give myself a bigger cushion or if the way is open to pass, I try to spend the least amount of time behind a vehicle.

 

[Spook]

Last Wed I decided to not concern myself with the extra time to don ATGATT and the backpack and instead jumped in the 4Runner and headed to work. When leaving work I had regretted not riding the bike. I joined I-270 to go home. About 1/8 of a mile from exiting onto the highway there was a 5 foot piece of metal about 2-4 inches thick, with a hollow interior, in the middle of both lanes.
I was in the right hand lane. When I first noticed it the car ahead of me in the left lane ran over the metal and it's rear tire gave it momentum to become airborn. It did somersaults until it caught my front left tire. Because of the extra-height underneath my 4Runner the metal managed to get sucked underneath and the skid plates kept it in check.

What would have happenned if I was on my bike? Would the metal had been lodged in my spokes? Would it have stabbed me in the neck or busted thru the visor on my helmet? Would it have knocked me off the bike?

Anyone else have a similiar experience?

I left for work one morning on my old V-Strom; turned around at the end of the driveway and got in my truck since I was going to get groceries at the end of the day. Five minutes later less than 2 miles from my house I was on the side of the road looking at the deer I just had hit!!

If you had left on bike instead of turning around and getting the truck you would not have been on the same part of the road as the deer was since you would have went by two minutes earlier.