Xcountry80
01-10-2005, 01:45 PM
On the way home from a friends last night. I live in Coppell, but went to visit a friend up off of 407 on the north edge of Lewisville.
Well, I was at her place from 8:00 until 1:00 in the morning and apparently it got crazy foggy outside, and the roads were really slick. So, I get on the bike leaving her place and am on a small 2-lane road. I can see about 50 feet so I'm going pretty slow... about 25 or so. Well, this enormous rabbit jumps out from my left, runs up the road a few feet, and then darts right in front of me. I locked up both tires for a few feet, but let off the front in time and just slid perfectly straight. It was terrifying, but I missed the rabbit... however, it ran into the ditch on my right and started running along side me. This sucked, 'cause there was a right turn coming up and this thing looked like it was gonna run straight across the road again. Luckily, it didn't, but it was not cool.
After that, I had a 20 minute ride on slick roads where everytime I'd give the bike more than 10% throttle, the rear tire would spin unrelentlessly and move the rear to the right or left about a foot. Very uncool on a bike when you're not trying to do so. Oh, a new volkswagen bug nearly pulled out in front of me while I was doing 50-60. Idiot.
I FINALLY got to a dry road about 2 minutes from my house and was just glad to be alive at that point, but my adventures were not over. I was going a bit faster now since everything was dry. I'm doing about 45-50 on this wide 3-lane road... nobody on it, just me, the bike.... and a random sparrow that found pleasure bobbing and weaving in front of me. Yeah, this thing shot in front of me from my left, then looked like it was break dancing or something while still flying. I had no idea where it was going, and because it had been SO humid, the inside of my face shield was way wet so I had my shield up. Well, I was positive I was gonna hit this bird, so I quickly put my shield down and tried to tuck behind my bike's windscreen. I kinda ducked into the tank and turned my face right, and all I saw was the bird come up from my front tire and nearly hit my arm pit. I don't know how it missed me, but I'm sure it was as hopped up on adrenaline after that as I was. I seriously almost got off my bike and pushed it home. I was only about 1/2 mile from the garage at that point and it didn't seem like too bad of an idea, but I just did 15 through the neighborhood and then parked it in the garage. I think I kissed the ground and tried to hug the garage door when I parked it.
Anyone else have several close calls in one outing?
Be so careful when it's wet!!
Well, I was at her place from 8:00 until 1:00 in the morning and apparently it got crazy foggy outside, and the roads were really slick. So, I get on the bike leaving her place and am on a small 2-lane road. I can see about 50 feet so I'm going pretty slow... about 25 or so. Well, this enormous rabbit jumps out from my left, runs up the road a few feet, and then darts right in front of me. I locked up both tires for a few feet, but let off the front in time and just slid perfectly straight. It was terrifying, but I missed the rabbit... however, it ran into the ditch on my right and started running along side me. This sucked, 'cause there was a right turn coming up and this thing looked like it was gonna run straight across the road again. Luckily, it didn't, but it was not cool.
After that, I had a 20 minute ride on slick roads where everytime I'd give the bike more than 10% throttle, the rear tire would spin unrelentlessly and move the rear to the right or left about a foot. Very uncool on a bike when you're not trying to do so. Oh, a new volkswagen bug nearly pulled out in front of me while I was doing 50-60. Idiot.
I FINALLY got to a dry road about 2 minutes from my house and was just glad to be alive at that point, but my adventures were not over. I was going a bit faster now since everything was dry. I'm doing about 45-50 on this wide 3-lane road... nobody on it, just me, the bike.... and a random sparrow that found pleasure bobbing and weaving in front of me. Yeah, this thing shot in front of me from my left, then looked like it was break dancing or something while still flying. I had no idea where it was going, and because it had been SO humid, the inside of my face shield was way wet so I had my shield up. Well, I was positive I was gonna hit this bird, so I quickly put my shield down and tried to tuck behind my bike's windscreen. I kinda ducked into the tank and turned my face right, and all I saw was the bird come up from my front tire and nearly hit my arm pit. I don't know how it missed me, but I'm sure it was as hopped up on adrenaline after that as I was. I seriously almost got off my bike and pushed it home. I was only about 1/2 mile from the garage at that point and it didn't seem like too bad of an idea, but I just did 15 through the neighborhood and then parked it in the garage. I think I kissed the ground and tried to hug the garage door when I parked it.
Anyone else have several close calls in one outing?
Be so careful when it's wet!!