- Joined
- Aug 19, 2015
- Messages
- 319
- Age
- 68
- Location
- Collierville TN.
- Bike
- 2012 honda ST1300
- STOC #
- 8864
Today after I had made a run into town I turned on my road and rode about a half mile. I saw what I thought was a moving tree. I was riding my ST1300 when I saw the top of a pile of limbs coming my way over a hill. There was a truck piled high with limbs and he was moving quick. The limbs where not just on the top but also hung all off the sides. Taking over most of my lane it appeared to be about a three inch limb with a bunch of small ones. I am so glad I was paying attention and could make a rather speedy exit into a neighbors drive way. Those limbs would have removed my windscreen and me from the bike at 40 mph or worse. Or worse was more likely the end result of a tree limb of that size. The car behind me was a BMW and found the ditch.
After I regrouped and gathering my thoughts I chased the truck down. I found him waiting at the stop sign to get on the main road. I flashed my lights, blew my horn and had my flashers on to get his attention. This idiot could not understand why I stop him. Then I found out there where two more just liked him in a pickup acting as a chase truck. Why not at least be in the front warning oncoming traffic, but no. It took them about five minutes to adjust the load. They where really ticked at me but I really did not care.
Then they hit the busy road with all the people in cars and on bikes coming home from work. Both of these roads are pretty narrow and if you leave the road the first thing people find are usually a tree. You just never know what you might meet on a country road in West Tennessee.
After I regrouped and gathering my thoughts I chased the truck down. I found him waiting at the stop sign to get on the main road. I flashed my lights, blew my horn and had my flashers on to get his attention. This idiot could not understand why I stop him. Then I found out there where two more just liked him in a pickup acting as a chase truck. Why not at least be in the front warning oncoming traffic, but no. It took them about five minutes to adjust the load. They where really ticked at me but I really did not care.
Then they hit the busy road with all the people in cars and on bikes coming home from work. Both of these roads are pretty narrow and if you leave the road the first thing people find are usually a tree. You just never know what you might meet on a country road in West Tennessee.