Topic: How was your ride. ADVENTURE! FUNNY! SCARRY? Are you hurt?

[Quail "Owner of the comfortable k8"]

I wear a full face but because I wear glasses. I sometimes forget to drop the shield after i put my glasses on.  Today I ate the sweetest bug!  Man if i could have had a box of them I would have eaten the lot of them.  Butterflys are kind of good but the wing powder taste bad.  Had a sparrow dive bomb and I lower my head in time to head but him into the afterlife on monday.  Came over a rise to find Mister Farmers combine had sprayed 1/4 inch of corn on the road while loading his trucks on Tuesday.  I looked like a Ice Bike racer dragging my toes through that corn.  Kind of a funny week when  looked back.


There have been some good MY RIDE post in the past if you can find them cut and paste them to this thread.

[dpen]

I got a few bugs in the face a while ago when I had no sunglasses on.
They hit me in the eyes & burst a few blood vessels.
Looked like a gargantuan hangover for a fortnight.

[Uncle Ernie]

My first long ride- from SF to LA and back, in the days before helmet laws. By the time I got to Los Angeles, I had 2nd degree burns all over my face. Never seems to get that sunny in SanFrancisco...  So, for the trip back I get Hershey's Cocoa Butter, suntan lotion, Noxema, everything I could find to keep the sun off and keep moisture on my face so the wind might not feel like sandpaper on my face....
First gas stop I got a couple of looks but I'm used to that. No biggie.
Second stop, mothers are grabbing their kids and locking car doors, dogs whine and run down the freeway shoulder. I decide to take a look in the bathroom. Turn on the light and had to grab the sink to keep from collapsing as my eyes rolled up into my head and I started to lose it; I had an oozing swamp of mush that every bug in California was sticking to on my face. My face was totally encrusted with dead mangled bugs that just stuck there and the only semblance of who I was was the whites of my eyes.

[Uncle Ernie]

Man, this is too funny. Keep coming up with funny stuff, crashes, adventures. We need a big bar to sit around and tell stories in. Heck, John Baker just had a little story published and it just scratches the surface. I'd love to ask him and some others around here a million questions.

Maybe a geezer story thread. Divide this thread by age or something. Hell, you could probably get a good book of short stories out of it~

[cbjunkie]

BRAAAAAHAHAHA!!! I just shot milk out of my nose - and I'm not even drinking any milk!

[jsaab2748]

Lately around these parts, I notice more antimosity among drivers during rush hour traffic. I think they watch the news too much and are just pissed off in general, which is carrying over into thier style of driving. Tailgating and cutting off seem to be the norm, and things get complicated when traffic comes to a screeching halt. It's really scary sometimes.

[dpen]

Back in the early seventies a group of us went to a rally at Broadford, a couple of hundred miles.
One bloke had trouble drinking all weekend as he had to keep his arms up near his head.
Apehangers & a singlet = sunburnt arm pits.

[eldar]

Well try this one! Drive down gravel roads that have ruts in them! By the time you are done doing that, going straight feels somehow not right!

[Quail "Owner of the comfortable k8"]

Gravel road.  Rain washed ruts down a steep hill with your friends 220+ wife on the back.  Goosed it to help pop out the front wheel out of the rut at the bottom and lifted the front wheel.  I sat it down perfect with that "I meant to do that"  smugness you have when you testies bounce off your adams apple.  She was squealing with delight and I was just thinking what that wreak would have looking like.  Soft but messy.   

[DRam]

Going through town on a hot day I popped the face shield a couple notches.  A butterfly hit the chin of my helmet and slipped up inside the shield.  Every try to ride with a butterfly fluttering around inside your helmet?  Very distracting.  I got stopped and opened the face shield, but by then it had crawled down by my mouth and was stuck.  Dug it out, turned it loose and it flew away. 

[ledbetter]

try swolling one whole was very tasty(not).
 
Lee

[Quail "Owner of the comfortable k8"]

Tuesday is "All amish go to K-Mart day"  I am in a line of cars leaving k-mart with 10+ buggys in front of the cars.  Get 1 car back from the stop sign and realize the whole lane is covered in Horse crap and I have to choose..... my tires or my feet.  It is a slippery mess no matter which one you choose.  ( I can buy new shoes).    Monday I rode for 8hrs to nowhere.  I went south east for 5 hours on every back road that looked like fun.  After 5 hours looked at my map and came home.  Great Great day.  I have not blown a day off like that in 20 Years.   The funny part was I hurt my back the first thing and it felt fine when riding,  Just when I stopped I had to crawl off the bike like I had wooden legs, then walk around like Egor until I could get up straight.   Cost 12.00 in gas for the day.

[techy5025]

Many years ago I was riding a friend's 650 Triumph down a very busy two
lane road on the way to get gas.  Some kids were flying a kite at a high
school.  The kite became tangled in power lines across the road from the
school.  This scared them so they dropped the string which proceeded to
drift down just in time to go over my windshield and under my helmet.
Before I could get the bike stopped, about two hundred feet of cotton
string drug over my neck.   

Because it was a burn, no blood ensued but you should have seen the look
on the gas station guys face as he filled the tank. (remember full serve?)
For a month or so, I was afraid to tirlt my head back for fear it would tobble
off the pivot.

I still carry that scar to this day.

Jim

[Uncle Ernie]

I was riding like a jerk on my Indian through a wooded area with the occasional restaurant or cabin here and there. I really wanted to find enough straight to pass the @#%&* big van that was going WAY TOO SLOW, so I kept going over the yellow line some to try and see ahead. Finally I saw what I hoped would be enough distance, opened 'er up and immediately the van's brake lights came on because there was a little car I never saw that was right in front of the van about to make a left turn into a driveway as I was grabbing the front brake which was already fading and you don't want to touch the rear brake at a time like this because they lock instantly so I gave it more gas and prayed with my heart about to blow a hole in my chest-      when out of nowhere a white car appeared coming the other way. The car making a turn had to wait for my white car to pass as I threaded the needle between them.  A big adventure in about 4 seconds, and a prayer answered, "Well, OK"

[seaweb11]

Same deal as Ernie story with a twist. Passing two motor homes on the Oregon Coast two lane hwy. I had the room until my throttle cable decided that would be a good time to teach me a lesson. Oh yeah, a logging truck coming up over the crest  towards me now! Obviously there was no way I could continue the pass (NO POWER at ALL), so I started to break to slip back in behind the 2nd motor home. The driver of the motor home also BRAKED assuming I would need the extra space to get in front before the logging truck became a major issue,

Well here we are now BOTH braking like crazy with different ideas....I finally won the contest and was just able to slip behind him and pull off the road.