Motorcycles BS Thread 2.0

lol considering I was moving fairly fast I didn’t get a good look. But I’d presume so

 

I figured you didn't see, but it's a fun visualization... if you're sick and twisted enough.

 

I've ridden 2 different plugged tires the rest of the way to the wear bars with no ill effect. One I paid to have plugged the second one I plugged myself using only the tire kit I have under my seat. I've also repaired another tire with a patch/plug installed from the inside of the tire and those are the best repair to make if you've got the tools to do it. There was no way I was throwing away a Michelin Pilot Road 2 with under 2k miles on it.

 

Back in 2002 I hit a deer with the Buell in my avatar. That was not fun. Twice on my 2014 FJR I've had birds fly into my bike. First bird must have misjudged my speed and distance and smacked into the mirror mount on my right side.



G/f gave me hell for taking the pics but I told her that bird deserved to be remembered too. Later when we got back to the hotel a group of us were at some of my friends questioned why the pic wasn't a selfie. G/f said even my friends are sick.....

Second bird was last summer coming home from a funeral in Atlanta. Just entered TN and had my cruise set about 80 mph. All of a sudden there was just a puff of white stuff in front of me like a cloud. Really didn't know what happened so I stood up on the pegs to look and that's when I found parts of a bird in the left mirror stalk and its feet laying on my ignition switch. Friend that was riding behind me was rolling laughing. Told me he witnessed the whole thing and when that bird hit it just exploded. I had bird parts down inside my front fairing and in the windshield track.

 

The drones are testing their interceptor protocols. You are lucky to have survived.

@Squatting Pigeon

 

I've had a bat sheer my windscreen off my old Katana.

 

From back in my time at the Harley dealership, had a customer hit a black bear on Skyline Drive.

 

Close encounter with a goose, not really... but kinda funny pic

 

Me and a buddy were riding the malibu hills one later evening and I felt a splatter like someone spit on me, figured either I got splatted in the neck by a bug or a bird poop. Come out the next morning and look head on at the bike and a bat had wedged between my headlight and the headlight stay lol.

 

Did you have any particular questions? Love my 2015 ES, actually rode in on it today to work.

 

Yeah I was riding and I remember seeing a single object come in from the right and two objects leave to the left and was like wtf was that. It was pretty dark at that point riding at dusk with my buddy. He said he swa stuff fly away from my bike but wasn't sure what it was either. We stopped and I saw my relatively new windscreen sheered in half. Always assumed bat based on it's color/size/time but never was certain haha

 

Close call with a turkey during my first full season on a m/c. She didn’t seem particularly motivated to get out of the way

 

This morning a bear with a deformed jaw could have given 2 shits he was more than half way in the road. My guess he was sick and on his way out.

 

He hit me

 

I remember that one recently.

 

Almost hit a baby cow, came around a corner to see a Moose in the middle of an ATV trail (noped out of that one REAL quick) rode through a herd of cows, rode through a herd of elk (terrifying), and had a bird explode itself off of my foot one time. That one hurt. Two near misses with deer, both at dusk. They're dumb AF.

 

A few years ago the track group i'm in on FB posted a video of two guys riding and the one in front lowsided in a turn and the guy behind ran him over around the midsection and managed to stay up fine, the guy hit was actually alright too. I'd have to dig for that video but its somewhere <2 years back.

 

T7 friend stopped by to get some air. We're going to do MABDR section 5 reverse tomorrow, with some of his friends

 

I wanna ride one of those soon.

 

He said his local friend has a Trail 125. I want to see that! But man, $4500 is kinda steep. He said it still does 55 on flat ground