Things that you hit or almost hit while riding

[jjvw]

Had a miturkey fly up in front of me. I was third in group to pass a turkey feeding along side the road. He let the first two by, than launched into my windshield. Wings left big scratches in the shield. I tried to grab his beard, but only got a few feathers. Jan was looking the other way and heard it but never saw it.

 

[Captain H]

I am dodging deer all the time.
I have hit a couple with different trucks but so far not my trike

The strangest thing was Big Foot. Yes I said it Big Foot.
It was a foggy morning a long time ago and I swear some big hairy ape like thing passed in front of me. His Eyes were glowing in the dark.
I have never believed in Big Foot even though I am from Washington state but that day got me thinking..... maybe!

2Bigfoot sightings in 2 distant states...Who'da thunk it?[/QUOTE
I see big foot all the time , here is a little video of him . The good thing is this one is on our payroll ,good luck with yours .

 

[nstahg8r]

Hopefully no hate for going through these archives, but after reading many of these stories, all I can say is I had not thought much of these things before and now that I am a proud owner of a Trike, I realize just how much of an education I missed all those years driving my truck on the interstate and not a bike/trike. been driving since I was 15, and in all those years, I have never had an accident that was my fault. In two incidents, another clueless person who did not know what a red light meant ended up with dents and scrapes on the vehicle. (no injuries).
Now, at the ripe old age of 54, I finally got my trike and am out and about. I will use these stories to get my brain in gear on what is possible and what to look out for.
So thanks for that

 

[headheaded]

I hit some good looking gal while pulling into a gas station. She came running from another set of pumps and ran between the ones a was pulling up to. Knocked her right on her ass. She knew it was her fault.
Should of made a date with her.

 

[3W-lonerider]

I like many have already said that we have run over or missed quite a few things over the years. but heres one that really stick out with me. i also still have the leather jacket. i was riding an 86, 700 honda shadow with no windshield and no face visor.

I was riding down a 2 lane road speed limit was 45. i might have been going 50. it was open fields on both sides of the road. out of the corner of my right eye i see the humungous black cloud coming across the field about 100 yards but coming towards the road.
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I done some quick thinking and figured i could get past them before they got to the road so i sped up to 70 mph. well guess what. i misjudged and they made the road before i got there. i couldn't stop in time. i got stung. and let me tell you. i have no clue how many bees committed suicide that day but i can tell you. everyone says that honey bees don't sting ya. well i beg to differ. my leather jacket got so stained up that it was no longer brown.

 

[RoadRunner18]

Riding through British Columbia on the Cassiar Highway, on my return south from Alaska, I see a Spruce Grouse in the middle of the road. I begin to slow down as the Spruce Grouse runs to the right shoulder of the road, then to the left shoulder of the road. He now seems preoccupied as I make my approach. All of a sudden he runs back across the road, and loses his head to my front tire rim. Wings flapping, i see this headless bird flap past my head on my left side. A bit shaken (but not as much as the bird) I pulled off the road. My Buddy riding behind me see's all this unfold, pulls up alongside of me and says "He chose poorly!"

 

[NC Triker]

I was heading north on I-75 in southern KY. I was in the center lane passing a semi in the right lane. Cruise control set at 70 MPH. All of a sudden a car heading south goes passed me with only 3 wheels. I looked at the car as sparks were flying everywhere. As I looked forward again the tire and wheel bounced over the center divide and racing straight at me. With the semi on my right I had nowhere to go. The tire took a slow curve toward the center divider and missed me by about 6ft. I kept watching it in my mirror and it went to the center divider and continued southbound in the northbound lanes. The last I saw it it hit something and bounced over the center divider and continued down the interstate in the southbound lanes. I took the next exit and had a talk with Jesus and thanked him for watching after me.

 

[Pegasus1300]

Wow some amazing stories.
1) 1970 on a 750 Norton coming out of Moab on US 191. No windshield no fairing, just a 3/4 helmet (full face not invented yet) and a pair of goggles when either a humming bird or the world's largest flying insect hits me right between the eyes. Fortunately, my bed roll was behind me, or I would have gone backwards off the bike. Splattered guts all over the goggles, couldn't see. Luckily, I got to the side of the road still shiny side up. I had to get spare goggles out to continue riding. I had a sore neck for a month from the whiplash.

2) 1986 Venture Royal coming home from a 12 hour shift in the steel mill. Light not great early morning, in the slow lane of north bound I-15, just in front of me I see a large plastic milk crate the same color as the asphalt. I get the bike swerved to the right just enough to miss it and raise my left foot as we pass by but not enough to miss the crate. I make it home, have kids hold up bike and but down the side stand so I can get off, then wife takes me to hospital. Two weeks on crutches.

3) 2008 Royal Star Tour Deluxe late at night. Coming up Huntington canyon on the way home from an historical play in Castle Dale on UT 31. Just before Electric Lake I see a huge Owl feeding on something in the middle of the road. It waits until the last minute then begins to try to fly off but only gets as high as my helmet and bounces off. I thought it was ok but the next day my niece coming over the same road passes a dead Owl on the road.

4) Same bike coming home from the grocery store narrow single lane road. I see a Skunk in the middle of the road. It sees me and begins to run....right down the same lane I am in, just humping along as fast as he can go. I move to the left side of the lane so does he, move to the right so does he wump, wump, wump, no more moving Skunk. I had to throw those jeans away.

5) 2015 on a 2012 Spyder RT on UT 96 thru Scofield Utah. On the way to Montrose Colorado to ride Western and Southern Colorado. It is the3rd of July and there is a huge crowd of people camping in this field on the right side of the road. Lots of people gathered on the edge of the road so I slow way down. All of a sudden this big dog comes running up out of an embankment and I can't stop, can't swerve, to many people on the edge of the road to over the top of the dog I go. The nose of the Spyder catches the dog and pushes it down and the left wheel goes right over it. and as it comes down on the backside of the fender it catches on the dog and breaks the fender loose. I stop go back to check on the dog everyone is saying" oh it's not your fault, the dog is dead we don't know whose dog it is". But there is no body ,they have already whisked it away. So since the fender is waving in the breeze I have to go back home and try to repair it then continue on with my trip. Fortunately I was only an hour away from home, I did get it fixed, and we had a great time.

 

[RoadRunner18]

OK, one more!

Mid 70's I am riding on I-95 through Georgia on a new 1975 Kawasaki Z-1. I am wearing a 3/4 "Captain America" helmet with one of those bubble shields. All of a sudden a hugh Beetle smashes into the face shield, splitting it in two. Damn near knocked me off the bike. Thank God I had that shield on that helmet or it might have pierced my head like a bullet.

 

[nstahg8r]

4) Same bike coming home from the grocery store narrow single lane road. I see a Skunk in the middle of the road. It sees me and begins to run....right down the same lane I am in, just humping along as fast as he can go. I move to the left side of the lane so does he, move to the right so does he wump, wump, wump, no more moving Skunk. I had to throw those jeans away.

Nothing to do with riding, but my wifes little terrier cornered a skunk under our house right under our bedroom, and when that skunk let loose his disapproval OMG, I almost throttled that little shitstain of a dog, our room stank to high heaven for 2 weeks or it was in my nose for that time, kinda fuzzy on details.

 

[Trail boss]

I was going down the highway doing 65mph in the right lane , traffic was heavy. This white plastic bag , bigger than a house trash bag , comes floating up about 2 ft in the air behind the car in front of me . I hit it but it is not on the front of my bike . I am thinking it went under the bike and is behind me . I glance in the mirrors only cars on road no white bag. Where did it go ???

I take the next exit off highway & pull into a shopping mall parking lot, got off & looked to see if it was stuck behind the front tire. Nope, went to get back on when this car pulls up & says it is behind you . Sure enough it was hanging out the back & the end of it was melted to my tail pipes .I couldn't help wondering if all the people who see me must of thought I pulled my parachute to slow down .:laugh:

I was doing everything right and Murphy’s Law still got me. In the late 70’s I was escorting an oversized load on old Hwy 90 headed to San Antonio. I had on a half shell helmet with a thick plastic visor, my motorcycle had a windscreen and I was wearing the old aviator sunglasses, the ones with metal frames and glass lenses. A semi coming from the other direction picked up a small rock and slung the rock over the top of my windscreen, under the visor and impacted the lens of the sunglasses. By the grace of the Lord the lens shattered and I only suffered a scratched eyeball. I’m escorting a rig that cannot stop until we find a parking lot so I had to ride several miles into the nearest town where we could pull over. I found a drug store and bought eye wash and a pair of sunglasses. To this day, I never ride a motorcycle without a windscreen, I wear a full or flip face helmet with a face shield. To this day when a semi or other large vehicle passes going the opposite direction, I duck my chin down to my chest and bend over so no part of my head is above the top of the windscreen.

 

[RoadRunner18]

That is good advice!

 

[Phu Cat]

WAY back in the early '80s I was drivin the bike home from night shift when a bird (about the size of a robin) hit me in the right shoulder. It sure got my attention but was able to keep riding til arriving at home. Had a bruise on that should for a few days but nothing more.

Maybe around 2015 I was in the 'rockin chair' ridin with two buddies. The guy ahead had drag pipes on his bike when we went past a bunch of turkey buzzards eatin on somethin near the right hand side of the road. The noise of the lead bike startled the bird with one flying a little ahead of us when he suddenly made a sharp left right into the fairing of our Electra Glide. The guy behind said he saw it splatter when we hit it but the bike kept right on traveling straight.

That's two incidents I've had with birds but I'm sure they were just coincidences.