Odie1
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Thankfully - not a hit ... but too close a call....
A wild boar in SE Oklahoma Saturday....
Odie1
A wild boar in SE Oklahoma Saturday....
Odie1
There should be some physical discomfort associated with stupid. Otherwise, there's little incentive to do better. Happy the drunk wasn't seriously injured.Very first bike, 1983 Kawasaki KZ550 - I hit a pedestrian in the road, because I had no where else to go. Guy was high as a kite and stepped out into traffic on a 4 lane. I changed lanes to the left lane, and was all the way on the double yellow looking head on with a Tacoma pickup. I chose to hit the softer of those 2. Guy face smashed into my shoulder and ripped my hand off the throttle, it laid him out in the road. When the Police arrived he had no idea where he was or what had happened, the fact that there were 2 crosswalks within 100 yards each way saved me. I wasn't ticketed, and was praised for all the evasive action I took to avoid him.
LATER on ran over a squirrel on my Harley Deuce. He didn't fare as well...
My first year riding on the street, I think that would be '79, I was following a guy on a Bonneville when he slowed (no brake lights) and then when I went to pass him he turned left into my path (no turn signals nor hand signal) Was probably doing about 50kph. We both went down. My brake pedal was a pretzel and his seat came off. Other than that, no damage. Thankfully my only involuntary get-off to date.
Must have been a hair raising experience! (Sorry couldn't resist it).I've clipped a few mirrors over the years and put a hole in the door of a car that decided to merge into my lane (footpeg through plastic cladding of a Saturn SL). Also had the windscreen turn a pigeon into puff of feathers; the mounting holes developed some radial cracks from that strike.
The best one, though, is the toupee incident in the early 90s. Riding behind a Vette with its top down on a fine spring day outside of Chicago on the East-West Tollway. We get to a toll plaza and throw our 40 cents in the basket in side-by-side lanes. The guy guns his Vette on the green light and I slot in behind him again as the lanes merge back down to 3. As this is happening I see this black cat-looking thing fly up and out of the car, arcing right toward me. I was in mid-shift at the time so didn't have much to do but watch it hit and bounce over the fairing of my old Goldwing. It didn't make much of an impact so I knew at that point that it was something light (a coonskin cap? ear muffs?) and didn't bother looking back in my mirrors. Good thing I didn't, because the now-bald driver in front of me tapped the brakes hard before he gave up and continued down the road.
I know your pain. I had the same misadventure with my 2000 ST1100 courtesy of a beige Honda driven by an elderly lady with the same result. The impact made the bike a little more compact and changed some of the geometry a bit.June 24, 2015..........as most know here, t-boned a driver coming from opposite direction making a left turn . Totaled ST and nearly me with 2monrths in hospital......OUCH! But did have a nice visit while in hospital from Vinny!
Glad your ok, and a nice side to that is that she upgraded you to a bigger better bike, the 1300! Sorry folks, I don't want to start a rebellion here, but maybe no one on the 1100 could catch the fastest ST out there, BLACK 1300!oPoST1: