keep your eyes on the road

[lucian]

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and your hands upon the wheel,
 or you could end up with one of these




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50 MPH with wife on back
F#@!* me gently

[MotoBug]

Shizer! Buy yourselves a lottery ticket. Looks like the kind of stick you play fetch with the bears you have over there. 

[Lannis]

Ouch!   That's bad, but could have been worse.   Good job holding the bike up and not having the both of you go tumbling down the road ....

Sometimes even if you're looking, something shows up out from under the car or truck ahead, and you can't quite get out of the way .....

Lannis

[oldbike54]

 Yeah , but look at the story you have to tell now 

 Really glad the both of you are OK 

 Dusty

[lucian]

Ouch!   That's bad, but could have been worse.   Good job holding the bike up and not having the both of you go tumbling down the road ....

Sometimes even if you're looking, something shows up out from under the car or truck ahead, and you can't quite get out of the way .....

Lannis

Exactly right Lannis, spit out from under the car ahead of us and alone I probably could have yanked around it, but didn't dare not knowing if wifey was holding on or not so decided to thump over it as it was dead square in the road and pretend we were on a 700 lb. dirt bike.  Lot to be thankful for now including a mighty rugged cast wheel.

[lucian]

Exactly right Lannis, spit out from under the car ahead of us and alone I probably could have yanked around it, but didn't dare not knowing if wifey was holding on or not so decided to thump over it as it was dead square in the road and pretend we were on a 700 lb. dirt bike.  Lot to be thankful for now including a mighty rugged cast wheel.

Thank's Dusty,  just returned from a 1000 mile trip to northern N.Y. and get home and this five minutes from home. 

[lucian]

Shizer! Buy yourselves a lottery ticket. Looks like the kind of stick you play fetch with the bears you have over there.

At least bears arn't friggin poisonous, they'll kill you fare and square.

[Sasquatch Jim]

 Back in the early eighties I ran over something that made a clank.  When I got out of traffic I stopped and looked but saw nothing wrong.  A couple hours later I had a tire suddenly go flat.  When the tire place fixed my tire a day later,
 They showed me a piece of steel 8 inches long and an inch and a half wide that was found inside my inner tube.
 It had pierced the tire and was inside working against the tube until it sliced into the tube flattening the tire.
 Road debris can get you anywhere it wants.

[lucian]

What really pissed me off is that I always maintain a good couple of car lengths at least in front of me, and just before this happened some douche passes us and fills in my zone.  Iv'e got cars piled up my arse and he straddles this piece of space junk and leaves me no time to react. Even worse , every one behind must have seen us launch over this thing and hobble off to the shoulder and not one of them stopped. Loosing faith rapidly!

[Lannis]

What really pissed me off is that I always maintain a good couple of car lengths at least in front of me, and just before this happened some douche passes us and fills in my zone.  Iv'e got cars piled up my arse and he straddles this piece of space junk and leaves me no time to react. Even worse , every one behind must have seen us launch over this thing and hobble off to the shoulder and not one of them stopped. Loosing faith rapidly!

I hate seeing that.   It's almost impossible to maintain spacing on a highway like that, because some idiot will say "I see a space I can fit in!" and fills it up.   If you back off, it happens again and again .....

If you weren't sure your passenger was ready, you probably made the right decision.   Riding home from lunch today, coming down off the Blue Ridge Parkway into hot weather, Fay riding pillion behind me on the Stelvio actually fell asleep (she's got a bit of a cold)!    I would hate to jerk the bike around too hard in that case; we'll probably discuss the sleeping on the bike thing .... !

Lannis

[rodekyll]

That was a close one!   

I had the same thing happen running over an angle iron in PA about 10 years ago.  Same outcome -- broke the tires and kinked the rims.  I've told it before -- won't bore you with the details.  But it's one of the ultimate pucker experiences.  Keep the rim.  You've got bragging rights!

 

[MotoBug]

At least bears arn't friggin poisonous, they'll kill you fare and square.

Sharks...limited to a watery domain. Snakes...like most of us just want to be left to their own devices and hate being caught by surprise. Funnel web spiders...scary but apart from the occasional wandering horny male, it's like worrying about aeroplane crashes.

But bears!!?...Big furry fanged, horny and/or hungry, protective wild creatures that share the same environment as us and can out run a deer and climb a tree faster than I can fall out of one. That is worrying.

[LowRyter]

glad you're OK

[azguzzirep]

Way to control the bike👍

Good driving! Your wife should cook you something special 😁

[Chuck in Indiana]

Nice. That's one of the best pieces of junk found on the road I've seen for a while.  Good job.

[lucian]

Thank's gentle men, I cant really take credit for keeping it upright, just shit luck and maybe a little help from higher up the food chain.    Now the "if only I had " moments.  Some of your similar stories are reassuring that the right thing to do is get back on the horse.
 
I got talking to a BMW guy this morning I met on my coffee run . I parked the griso next to his r 1000 r and when he came out of the store we started comparing close calls. He had been across the country three times and only had two incidents. One like mine with a bent rim and flat and another that has us all beat. He was riding at night on rt. 66 heading out west when he saw an irregularity in the pavement ahead.  Turns out it wasn't the pavement at all but a heavy rubber tarp like the tractor trailers use. He slowed as much as he could and ended up with it folding up and flipping over the top of him. He ended up having to crawl out from underneath it at night in the middle of 66. I guess never  assume your always  going to go over things.
Makes you think.  I guess I can say I've pretty much bonded with the cali now. I owe it our lives, what a super MC,

[webmost]

Exactly right Lannis, spit out from under the car ahead of us and alone I probably could have yanked around it, but didn't dare not knowing if wifey was holding on or not so decided to thump over it as it was dead square in the road and pretend we were on a 700 lb. dirt bike.  Lot to be thankful for now including a mighty rugged cast wheel.

Everyone remarks how you only use a tenth of your brain. No one remarks why. This is why. When you only have a split second, your nine in reserve explodes like an air bag so's you can throw all ten tenths at the problem. Time goes ten times slower, you think ten times clearer, means there's ten times better chance you live to tell the tale.

Takes an hour or so to pack those nine reserve tenths back in their pressure container once you've let the little bastids out. Laughing seems to help.

Whole thing helps you appreciate life.

[MotoBug]

Everyone remarks how you only use a tenth of your brain. No one remarks why. This is why. When you only have a split second, your nine in reserve explodes like an air bag so's you can throw all ten tenths at the problem. Time goes ten times slower, you think ten times clearer, means there's ten times better chance you live to tell the tale.

Takes an hour or so to pack those nine reserve tenths back in their pressure container once you've let the little bastids out. Laughing seems to help.

Whole thing helps you appreciate life.

:1:

[wirespokes]

Not panicking, hitting the brakes and locking up the wheels is probably what saved you. With the wheels still spinning, the gyroscopic forces kept the bike upright.

Many years ago I had a similar close call. The car ahead of me went over a large piece of semi trailer tire. It wound up hitting the crash bar at 60mph. As it went past it glanced off my foot and left it a little sore.

Ever since, I've made it a habit riding in the tire tracks rather than the center grease strip. Besides it being less likely hitting something the vehicle in front just passed over, there's also less chance of picking up a nail or something that can flat a tire.

[Gliderjohn]

Some years back my wife and i were riding a rural blacktop on the T-3 when somehow I managed not to to see a very deep pothole. Hit it dead on between 50 and 55mph. We both cleared air over the seat My wife said that she thought for sure she was going off the bike. Pulled over and could not find any damage. Those wire Borrani wheels are tough as nails. I am also kind of surprised the forks didn't collapse.
GliderJohn

[sign216]

What really pissed me off is that I always maintain a good couple of car lengths at least in front of me, and just before this happened some douche passes us and fills in my zone.  Iv'e got cars piled up my arse and he straddles this piece of space junk and leaves me no time to react. Even worse , every one behind must have seen us launch over this thing and hobble off to the shoulder and not one of them stopped. Loosing faith rapidly!

Dave,

Yes, it's hard to leave that safe gap in between vehicles down here in greater Boston.  Everyone is an idiot.
Glad you pulled through.

Joe

[chuck peterson]

Thank's Dusty,  just returned from a 1000 mile trip to northern N.Y. and get home and this five minutes from home.

And another Pope's blessing story for moto guzzis

[normzone]

That rim has earned medical retirement with a medal and full pay - put it on the wall in the garage and let it tell stories to the other rims.

" You kids don't know what tough is - when I was on active duty, we HAD to be tough .... "

Or, to quote Christopher Moore (Isle of the Sequined Love Nun), " All men were tampons once - things were better then ".

Go get the book, I promise you won't regret it.

[Adk.IBO]

I know what that's like. Rush hour, 70mph, 1988, R100RT a cinder block appears from under a truck. Only choice, ride it out. Front wheel looked a lot like that one, not quite as bad, but it immediately went flat. Got safely pulled over and 4 way flashered it to work. Overnighted a wheel and bearing set to the BMW dealer, new tire and underwear, good to go.

[lucian]

AF1 to the rescue, new rim ordered. will source a new tire locally, even though there is no visible damage to the one that took the hit. I worry about possible chord damage or something invisible. For the cost of a front tire I think the smart thing to do is scrap it.

[lucian]

Dave,

Yes, it's hard to leave that safe gap in between vehicles down here in greater Boston.  Everyone is an idiot.
Glad you pulled through.

Joe

Thank's Joe, be careful down there.   Never thought  I'd have zero time to react to something like this. Just got lucky I get to tell the tale.

[Chuck in Indiana]

AF1 to the rescue, new rim ordered. will source a new tire locally, even though there is no visible damage to the one that took the hit. I worry about possible chord damage or something invisible. For the cost of a front tire I think the smart thing to do is scrap it.

Yep, it's history.

[TimmyTheHog]

AF1 to the rescue, new rim ordered. will source a new tire locally, even though there is no visible damage to the one that took the hit. I worry about possible chord damage or something invisible. For the cost of a front tire I think the smart thing to do is scrap it.

Ya...I would hang it up as a "trophy" as I survived that...

beside that, not much you can use it for...

[lucian]

Good advice Thanks guy's, it's in the trash.  Now I just hope my fork seals aren't blown or worse. We'll know soon enough. Fingers crossed

[chuck peterson]

I'd be looking under her skirt...what kind of shock load does that make on the steering head bearings? Any bulges around the frame tubing? Any parts or pieces snapped in the cockpit? I mean that's a lot of force with no place to go