| Author | Message | ||
     Union_man |
While riding through the rural countryside of Minnesota I found myself behind a straight truck filled with sweet corn still on the cob and unpeeled. This is normal traffic this time of year...harvest time. I was on a two lane narrow road with no shoulder and oncoming traffic was steady. After following the truck for 10 min or so he hit a bump in the road and 15 to 20 ears of corn fly off the truck and are coming at me! Some are log rolling and others look like jumping jacks! I have never had this happen to me before. I have never heard of this happening to anyone else before either! I kept the bike straight, kept the throttle steady and hoped for the best. Two jumping jacks hit me one on the front fork and one hit my left ankle. Ouch!!! I'm ALIVE!!!!! | ||
| Roysbuell |
Guess you were riding 2-up with Lady Luck! | ||
| U4euh |
Better check your air scoop! or wait till it starts shooting popcorn out the exhaust | ||
| Prowler |
If you'd stopped, you could'a had some good "road kill" for lunch...... | ||
| Firebolt32 |
Come down to Lakeland, FL. Same type of deal with oranges happen here. Makes for a sticky ride... | ||
| Froggy |
Perhaps soaking tires in orange juice will become a new secret racer trend to improve grip? | ||
| Zatco81 |
That would make for sweet smelling burnouts! | ||
| Delta_one |
orange spray on the back of a jacket would be bad! don't stop or the bugs will catch you! | ||
| Beachbuell |
I would have clicked down a gear and passed that truck in the first place! End of worries! | ||
| Fahren |
Yeah, flash like crazy and pass, or if there really is way too much traffic, just pull over, take a breather, let the truck go on, and just chill out and enjoy the day for long enough to get away from the truck. I wouldn't have worried about crap like that years back, but now I think it's not worth the risk - get away and stay away from stoopit potential hazards. Makes me remember a total traffic jam on the GW Bridge in NYC, I was right behind a truck hauling live chickens in open cages. Lots of odor, lots of flying feathers. Run away!!! | ||
| Biffdotorg |
Ya, Minnesota roads are going to get crazy from here on till the snow flies. It starts with small grain dust behind oat/wheat/rye trucks. Then the random cob of corn, although I have never seen that one either. In Moorhead, we have sugar beets! These fat turnip-looking things will cause all sorts of pain with a bike. That's not to mention all the mud that gets drug out on the road from the beet trucks. Come October the deer rut will start and the bambis get stupid! All this time we have tourons looking for "fall colors" Touron was a term I learned decades ago as a lift operator in Colorado. Tourons (Tourist/morons)were the folks on vacation but tended to forget that the people in the places that they were visiting were still trying to make it through day to day life. And as happy as most were to see their money, congested highways, waterways, trails etc were a pain in the but. It's something you just learned to put up with if you wanted a living based around tourism. Minnesota has plenty of that. Bring on the Tourons, we love you (unless you are in front of me) |
