Madhatter
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oww, bee between the eyes this morning. slow to put my visor down... :'(
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Took a rock the size of a marble to the chin area last week. It was flipped up on the freeway as I was passing a tractor trailer truck. Made me grateful for the full face helmet. No helmet law here in Texas, and most of the people are not wearing helmets. This rock would have put me down if I did not have a helmet on.
Took a rock the size of a marble to the chin area last week. It was flipped up on the freeway as I was passing a tractor trailer truck. Made me grateful for the full face helmet. No helmet law here in Texas, and most of the people are not wearing helmets. This rock would have put me down if I did not have a helmet on.
NittanyXT
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A bird to the face is fun, too!
Madhatter
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i understand texas has helmet law,you can opp out if you get a permit declaring you have so much insurance protection or have taken an msf course...cops do not enforce it seems...i wear all the gear all the time, but sitting at light it gets hot in helmet so i open visor.light goes green i put my visor down when i get to 2nd gear,yesterday i thnk it was 3rd. i dont understand how they ride with out helmets ive bumped my head just doing stuff around the house ,hurts like h---. we get beetles flying around at night called june bugs,you will think you got hit by a rock. bird strike,was it big enough for supper?i guess what doesn't kill us makes us stronger...happy easter...
Yea I got hit in the neck by a lovebug last year in Florida. I was going around 55mph. It left a nice welt! Like getting hit with a paint ball in the neck.Madhatter said:
NittanyXT
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Bird was only snack size, sparrow maybe? Have a few scary close calls with turkeys and vultures, one of which I could feel the downbeat from the turkey's wings!
Just yesterday, spooled into the parking lot at the motorcycle shop with the intention of completing a real tight u-turn to get to the parking spot. Outta nowhere comes a 7 year old on a bicycle ... I widenend out the turn to go behind him, while his mom screams at him and he turns around; bent on getting in the way. Slowed down as much as could, missed him, but even with the handlebars hard over the u-turn was no longer gonna happen and I tried to get stopped before hitting the curb . nope .. grabbed the curb at maybe 3 or 4 mph and a really shallow angle. Ready to tip over I was actually shocked when the tire kinda just took the curb in stride and I hopped up on the sidewalk with the front wheel, kept the rear wheel on the asphalt, hopped back down and stopped pretty much where I wanted to in the first place. Didn't look too ungainly except for the right foot duck paddling preparing to, and then not, tipping over. 
Thankful that the curb was a> not rounded over at the edge and b> not painted.
Kids loose on small bicycles carving among the parked and moving motorcycles on a busy Saturday are not the wisest move. Even in my boots I jammed my toes pretty good Ah well, hazards come in all shapes and sizes.
Thankful that the curb was a> not rounded over at the edge and b> not painted.
Kids loose on small bicycles carving among the parked and moving motorcycles on a busy Saturday are not the wisest move. Even in my boots I jammed my toes pretty good
Ah well, hazards come in all shapes and sizes.Madhatter
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great miss... ill take that any day...
End of January, riding home (Sacramento) from San Diego. Coming into Santa Clarita and need gas. Dial up an ARCO on the GPS and it gives me an exit in a few miles. Pull into the right lane, cruising politely at about 65 as there is a car in front of me and thinking about the next 350 miles home. Car in front of me starts to annoy at this speed and I think about going around but decide to be cool and wait.
Car pulls over one lane, I smile, start to roll on the gas and out of the corner of my eye I see something large, heavy and shiny flip out from under their right front wheel and head my direction. Now mind you this whole even took a fraction of a second to develop and fewer than 5 seconds total.
I start to pull right instinctively, my front wheel hits whatever this is and then I feel my left foot ripped into the air off my peg and back above and behind my panniers. The bike elevates off the ground and lands in a speed wobble. I land back on the seat, my foot is screaming in pain and I can’t find my foot peg to set my foot on. I sneak a look down and see my foot (good thing), no peg and what appears to be a scrambled shifter.
By this time I am pretty much at the exit and I pull off and head for the gas station. Crawl off the bike which is hard with no left peg and a banged up foot. Amazingly I see no other damage, not even scratch to the panniers drive train or cases and the shifter is fine. However my tool tube attached to my crash bars has been destroyed leaving my tools on the freeway.
To shorten this part I got back to the freeway, found my tools one lane out on Interstate 5 and had given up going after them until a CHP (motor officer)came along and took pity on me and stopped the traffic so I could get the tools back.
It was a 6 hour plus ride home with a throbbing foot and no foot peg. Used the crash bar, the rear peg and the left case alternating positions on the way home.
At the next gas stop as I pulled off the freeway I found the front tire flat. Seems I had dented the wheel and not noticed it. Got the compressor out and pumped it up and refilled it a couple of times over the next 150 miles.
I left the boot on until I got home; I knew if it was real bad I did not want to see it until I got home and figured if it took it out of my boot I would not get it back in again. At home the result was one ugly foot. The entire front of my foot was red/purple and swollen with some blood blister. It was a 65mph impact with a heavy object with enough force to shear off the foot peg. Blunt trauma. Two months later the swelling was mostly gone.
I have never not seen an obstacle in time to avoid it but this one was concealed by the car in front of me. Gives me a whole new perspective on how exposed we can be at times. Always wear great protective gear and in this case steel toed waterproof Gaerne riding boots on my feet. I am sure that boot saved my foot
Not posting the picture of my foot.
Car pulls over one lane, I smile, start to roll on the gas and out of the corner of my eye I see something large, heavy and shiny flip out from under their right front wheel and head my direction. Now mind you this whole even took a fraction of a second to develop and fewer than 5 seconds total.
I start to pull right instinctively, my front wheel hits whatever this is and then I feel my left foot ripped into the air off my peg and back above and behind my panniers. The bike elevates off the ground and lands in a speed wobble. I land back on the seat, my foot is screaming in pain and I can’t find my foot peg to set my foot on. I sneak a look down and see my foot (good thing), no peg and what appears to be a scrambled shifter.
By this time I am pretty much at the exit and I pull off and head for the gas station. Crawl off the bike which is hard with no left peg and a banged up foot. Amazingly I see no other damage, not even scratch to the panniers drive train or cases and the shifter is fine. However my tool tube attached to my crash bars has been destroyed leaving my tools on the freeway.
To shorten this part I got back to the freeway, found my tools one lane out on Interstate 5 and had given up going after them until a CHP (motor officer)came along and took pity on me and stopped the traffic so I could get the tools back.
It was a 6 hour plus ride home with a throbbing foot and no foot peg. Used the crash bar, the rear peg and the left case alternating positions on the way home.
At the next gas stop as I pulled off the freeway I found the front tire flat. Seems I had dented the wheel and not noticed it. Got the compressor out and pumped it up and refilled it a couple of times over the next 150 miles.
I left the boot on until I got home; I knew if it was real bad I did not want to see it until I got home and figured if it took it out of my boot I would not get it back in again. At home the result was one ugly foot. The entire front of my foot was red/purple and swollen with some blood blister. It was a 65mph impact with a heavy object with enough force to shear off the foot peg. Blunt trauma. Two months later the swelling was mostly gone.
I have never not seen an obstacle in time to avoid it but this one was concealed by the car in front of me. Gives me a whole new perspective on how exposed we can be at times. Always wear great protective gear and in this case steel toed waterproof Gaerne riding boots on my feet. I am sure that boot saved my foot
Not posting the picture of my foot.
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Wow that is nuts! Your lucky to still have your foot!
Madhatter
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ouch. sheared footpeg ,bruised foot ,a lot of force absorbed by your tenere that didn't get completely transfered to your foot. the one piece of gear that ive not up graded to are proper m/c boots. i wear my leather work boots, good on abasion protection not so much impact ....
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This and did you get your foot peg back? It sheered clean off, looks like an easy weld back on.CapsLock said:
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Madhatter
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buy a new peg. don't go low class on first class bike...
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I will say I have a whole new respect for the quality and stability of the Tenere. The impact was only on one side of the rim but it did not deflect the front wheel in my hands and when it landed a bit crossed up and went into a speed wobble it only last a couple of seconds and straightend right out. Solid bike
Oddly enough while I was standing on the curb at the side of the freeway ( I was at an exit) looking at my tool kit stretched out over about 6' on the line between the lanes, I looked down and a few tools were up against the curb along with my foot peg. It now sits on my desk as a kind of momento. Never did see what I hit. Did not see it in the lane or at the side of the road. It was about 30 minutes from the tmie I hit it to the time I got back to the location on the freeway. Don't know if it got removed or moved by sombody else.coastie said:
I will say I have a whole new respect for the quality and stability of the Tenere. The impact was only on one side of the rim but it did not deflect the front wheel in my hands and when it landed a bit crossed up and went into a speed wobble it only last a couple of seconds and straightend right out. Solid bike
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Glad you're only injury was the foot. Sounds like things could have ended up much worse.
Get back on the Super T soon!
At night/11pm on the freeway on my Aprilia RSVR putting along at 80mph and a pallet appears directly in front of me with about a second to spare... Instantly slide ass all the way back/over the rear cowl, throttled way up, tensed up and closed my eyes and WHAM!!!!! I did my best bucking bronco impression and slammed back down on the bike so hard I lost my grip on the bars and body slammed the tank... Re gained control and pulled over..
Damage to bike, bent/destroyed front wheel (OZ racing) ripped off/missing lower cowl, bent back wheel(OZ racing), dented/flattened gas tank, 4 broken ribs/ 2 on each side from my body slam.. Was on my way back home at the time, ended up riding slow for about 30 miles on back roads to get home.. Woke up the next day and drove myself to the Doc's to find out about my hurting chest. All in all that pallet did just about $4000 bucks damage, just glad I was able to hang on.. Started riding my GS Adventure on the freeway after that, little more suspension travel..
Damage to bike, bent/destroyed front wheel (OZ racing) ripped off/missing lower cowl, bent back wheel(OZ racing), dented/flattened gas tank, 4 broken ribs/ 2 on each side from my body slam.. Was on my way back home at the time, ended up riding slow for about 30 miles on back roads to get home.. Woke up the next day and drove myself to the Doc's to find out about my hurting chest. All in all that pallet did just about $4000 bucks damage, just glad I was able to hang on.. Started riding my GS Adventure on the freeway after that, little more suspension travel..
Deer meat... Thrown up from your buddy in front who runs over (whats left) of a deer!
Spelt good for about 2 mins on the engine (BBQ anyone?) but then it just got plain bad, not to mention the raw flesh on the gloves!
Spelt good for about 2 mins on the engine (BBQ anyone?) but then it just got plain bad, not to mention the raw flesh on the gloves!
Madhatter
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we like bbq in texas...got to be more stories out there, we share we learn....