Road Debris
Motorcycle SafetyDiscuss Road Debris in the Other Topics forums; Hey all,
Just a quick reminder. Along with keeping your eyes on the knuckleheads around you, keep your eyes peeled for crap on the road. After a great day of ...
Just a quick reminder. Along with keeping your eyes on the knuckleheads around you, keep your eyes peeled for crap on the road. After a great day of riding yesterday about a mile from home I happened upon a ratchet strap laying in the road. It was the ratchet mechanism, a huge one, obviously for commercial tie down use. None of the cars in front of me swerved to avoid it as it rolled between their wheels. So, didnt see the hazard til it was too late. Caught my front wheel and the nose of the bike jumped over about 6 inches. Didnt go down but possibly could have. Got home no damage it seems for now. Just keep your eyes peeled. Botz
Great point botzman.
If you live in an area that gets ice and snow, be careful of the salt and sand residue left on the roads. This is especially true at intersections and corners.
One night,several years ago, I ran over a piece of scrap-metal in the road .. same kind of circumstances. It put a small hole in one exh. pipe .. flew up, cutting a slice in my jeans and would have gotten my right shin, if not for the "cowboy (?) boot" that took a good scuff. Suprisingly, no damage to front tire .. and,small hole in bottom of black header on "rice-rocket" (at the time) was easily (?) cut-out and patched-in with piece of scrapped-header at friends shop. But COULD have been worse,overall. And,yes, I did stop to see what I hit .. pretty big angle-iron .. and get it OFF the road.
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Now that spring has sprung, the roads in this area are covered with assorted crap that has fallen off pick-up trucks belonging to the yard work crews. I saw a new one last week: a full size trash can rolling lazily around a parkway lane. The roads with semis are even worse, with the blown out tire slabs and pieces of fender-bender related debris littering the lanes. "Vision" is the operative word to avert potential disaster.
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About 12 years ago (man, I'm getting old!) a friend, George, was riding his old mid-1960's Triumph Bonnie from Toledo, OH to Sandusky, on Rt 2. He was riding with two other guys in formation. As they approached a slower moving car a canoe suddenly broke loose from the straps on the roof of the car and took flight. Try as they might they couldn't avoid the tumbling canoe and George got the worst of it, breaking his right ankle and doing a number on the bike's tank etc. Hearing George tell how he explained to his insurance company that he had been hit by a flying canoe was a moment not to be missed.
The point, however, is Memorial Day is approaching and people will be taking to the roads. Many of the travelers are amatures when it comes to securing external loads on their cages so beware!
A lot of crap on the roads after winter. Geez. At least they are starting to get those guys in orange jump suits out cleaning up. Pickups and trailers with yard trash are the worst. Them flippen road cones also like to pop out from the vehicles in front of you.
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