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[taffrail]

> I'll pass any vehicle that I don't feel safe following, >and I'm prepared to tell the friendly highway patrolman that I'm >speeding for safety's sake. Not that it will help, but maybe it's one >he hasn't heard yet! > >Arden Kysely

He has heard it, trust me!!!! taf

[Miata Myk]

> The biggest thing I have seen flying down the road is an airplane..... > (or a Lincoln Navigator....or a semi.....)

When I lived in Seattle it was not that unusual to see an airplane or a helicopter roaming down the road, granted it was usually being towed at the time. A Dr. on my street in Va was rebuilding a Cessna 172 and decided to taxi it (sans wings) down the street a few times one month until some old bitty complained. To a ten year old watching a plane go down his street was a pretty cool sight, especially with no airports within twenty miles.

[klxmoto]

--- In DSN_klr650@y..., "s2mumford" wrote:

> ...I remember the first couple of seconds thinking "What the ...? > What kind of idiot would roll a tire down the freeway at 75 mph?" > > CA Stu

How about seeing the Coca-Cola beverage trailer you are towing pull up along side you? Years ago when I was in college and working for Coca Cola in beautiful North Brunswick, NJ, I went out to deliver a beverage trailer to a fair. It was a decent sized trailer that you serve beverages out of, maybe 20' long. An older Coke lifer was driving, and I was riding shot gun trying to stay awake and recover from the daily college hangover. Driving down a small street at one point we realized the trailer had come unhitched and had run into the back of the rack truck we were in. But the driver did a good job of getting the truck and the trailer pulled over safely and no one was hurt. While trying to re-hitch the trailer, I could see that it wasn't fastening properly and it wasn't going to stay on the ball. The old timer didn't give a shit, and proceeded to rig it. I protested that there was no way that thing was going to hold and that we could kill someone. The old bastard basically told me to shut the f**k up and get in the truck or walk home (typical attitude of most of the lifers there at Coca Cola at the time). Well, being young and stupid, I got in the truck, fuming the whole time. Not 1/2 mile later, I see something funny in the right side mirror; its the trailer crusing along side us on the passenger side. It had unhitched of course, and was skidding its way along the curb. It finally stopped as the tongue of the trailer caught the grass and dirt between the sidewalk and the curb. When the truck stopped, I turned my head around to scream at the old bastard when I noticed 3 or 4 little kids walking along the side walk about 100 yards ahead of us. Those kids could've been killed if the trailer had unhitched 2 seconds later then it did. Well guess what the old bastard did? He rigged it again, told me to f**k off and proceeded to deliver the trailer to the fair. I was in a state of high anxiety the whole ride there. Thankfully the thing stayed attached somehow. I regret not doing more to stop that old bastard that day, but I was young, stupid, easily intimidated by these guys, and I wanted to keep what was then a very high paying job. Ed Duvall, WA

[s2mumford]

--- In DSN_klr650@y..., "klxmoto" wrote: SNIP > When the truck stopped, I turned my head around to scream at the old > bastard when I noticed 3 or 4 little kids walking along the side walk > about 100 yards ahead of us. Those kids could've been killed if the > trailer had unhitched 2 seconds later then it did. > > Well guess what the old bastard did? He rigged it again, told me to > f**k off and proceeded to deliver the trailer to the fair. I was in a > state of high anxiety the whole ride there. Thankfully the thing > stayed attached somehow. > > I regret not doing more to stop that old bastard that day, but I was > young, stupid, easily intimidated by these guys, and I wanted to keep > what was then a very high paying job. > > Ed > Duvall, WA THANK GOD! ( that it wasn't a Bud Light trailer!! ) CA Stu

[JJNeet1@aol.com]

First,when driving my cage home from work about two months ago on a four lane freeway,I passed,in the oncoming outside lane,about a 17 foot runabout boat that had completely come off it's trailer.Two guys were about to try to rehook the boat to the crank mechanism and try to crank it up form the road onto thr trailer. While riding my 1981 Suzuki SP500 dual sport home from work,I was entering the beginning of a freeway.The two lanes quickly squeeze down into one.As I was moving over into the other lane,and admiring the beautiful Mt. Rainier,I looked back and the car in front of me had dodged a complete,still in the box,stainless steel double kitchen sink.I could not avoid hitting that thing.As I hit the edge of it,it flipped up and nailed my left foot.I had tp pu;; over to be sure my front wheel was still round-it was.Now and can no longer say that I've hit everything but the kitchen sink! True story though. Jon Neet Bonney Lake,. Wa. USA 2001 KLR250

[Ted Palmer]

I don't get out much so I don't see a lot of things on the loose. However, I was out on a country highway behind a big low-loader semi- trailer (Olympic highway near Wagga Wagga, for you few aussies). One of its spare wheels came off and happily bounced along the road ahead of me. Eventually the still bouncing and rolling wheel drifted off into the ditch on the left side of the road and I considered gassing the bike and getting past it, and then it bounced back up to the road and across to the other side. Then I did give the bike a handfull and got out of there before the wheel had a chance to have another go at me. Mister_T

[Mark St.Hilaire, Sr]

I guess we've been lucky, there's only one thing that we've ever encountered on the road. Years ago we were travelling in a full size Ford Bronco at night on Route 128 in Massachusetts, heading for Gloucester. I don't know why I didn't see it sooner, but noticed a muffler with a section of tailpipe attached just before it went under the truck. It banged and crashed around underneath as we passed over it, finally flying up and out. The thing must have shot up 10 feet, and out 30. Thankfully, nobody was behind us! Just after it flew out, my son said, "Houston, we have a launch!" Wise men still seek Him... Mark St.Hilaire, Sr A15 HomePage: http://home.adelphia.net/~msaint/index.html KLR650 Pages: http://klr6500.tripod.com/ Valve Check & Adjustment Guide: http://klr6500.tripod.com/valves.html

[jazranch]

Trekking west across the lower part of Idaho.... from Montana toward Oregon... wide open high desert.... Launching from a gas stop, I hop on the two lane accellerate rapidly.....climbing to 70, 80....... scanning the desert, my head is angled right...my head pans left across the straight road ahead, then slightly left...eyes pickup a stationary antelope maybe 80yds out, now approaching 90deg left to my line of travel..... Somehow we hoddam lock eyes....the instant we do he bolts....I begin this: check ahead, check antelope, check ahead, check antelope,.....he appeared to match my speed when I chilled at 70 which is when he begins this suicidal trajectory in my direction......It wasn't completely suicidal thank God....by the time our trajectories met I had hard braked to about 35, which was when he was stopped broadside for an instant about 9ft in front of me. He darted off to the right, I released brake and coasted by what would have been the point of impact.....with a full size antelope gut emblazoned on my brain....he wasn't that big, but he woulda took me out for sure..... Hmmmm, Brian bro....from Canada.....you still out there? I know he's got an excellent bear story....... Slide out

[Ryan Newman]

I was flollowing behind a truck pulling one of those cement-mixer-trailers when a very large chunk of cement broke off. The cement chunk bounced just high enough to clear my 280zx. I watched it go overhead through my t-tops, and saw it hit the ground again just behind me in the mirror. Lucky it didn't hit my windsheild. Ryan Phoenix

[jazranch]

Okay one more for the road.... Its 83' and me and my honey are bombing out 126 in my 66' El Camino. Its summer, hot...I'm hauling a load of storage items to my folks in the Cali. desert.... Four El Camino wheels with inflated tires, are laid ontop of the load to hold it down...The load is below cab height....but the car travels above the speed limit easily.... I'm heading East in one lane, two lanes of on-coming are approaching....I hear a thud, glance in the rearview and one wheel has caught air and flipped off the back. I look ahead, and the opposing oncoming pack is nearing. I check the rearview again...the tire is flipping in the lane behind me, then hits just right and launches.....It takes about a 20' arc in the air.....At last glance it appeared as though it were going to drop on the hood or windshield of the lead car in the pack(A Cadillac)......I had to look in front of me again and when I took that last fleeting glance back, the cars were scattering like pins in a bowling alley just after a strike..... I was reasoning that my life had just come to an end when I turned the car around, and headed back.... The driver of the cadillac was actually quite polite, while his wife demanded my head be served on a platter from a distance....Actually the tire had missed all cars....The El Dorado driver had swerved and missed it, lost a hubcab.... The rest of the cars had split..... A Caddy hubcab, and learning to tie down loads was a cheap price for me that day......alotta learning at a very lucky price. confessing.... Slide