What have you hit with your bike..??

I hit 34k on the 06 and a new top speed on Darth......130.....with the trunk on....no weave! Solid as a rock!

ToddC


PS. And one small Tweety bird.........
 
Congrats on the mileSTone for '06, Todd. I have traveled at 130 MPH on my ST1300 with a Givi 55 trunk (closed course, of course) and never experienced the so-called "pan weave." I suspect that phenomena has more to do with the added weight of the ST1300P bikes than the addition of a trunk, but that's just my subjective opinion.
 
STripper said:
Congrats on the mileSTone for '06, Todd. I have traveled at 130 MPH on my ST1300 with a Givi 55 trunk (closed course, of course) and never experienced the so-called "pan weave." I suspect that phenomena has more to do with the added weight of the ST1300P bikes than the addition of a trunk, but that's just my subjective opinion.
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It was a good day! Thanks

T
 
How does my tool cabinet and garage wall count as strange? I had been working on my K100RT and revving the motor with the clutch in...the cable broke...at high RPM...in first gear...and now for the rest of the story: The bike lifted the front, smoked the rear tire, hit the tool cabinet, rode up ad hit the wall next to it. The bike tipped over on me, still running. I got to the kill switch with my left foot and shut it down. Unhurt (relatively), I lay there giggling and hoping that it being a mid day Tuesday, none of the neighbors saw this act of idiocy. I was not so lucky. THE nosey neighbor lady was running up the driveway nearly in a panic yelling "I'll call 911".

I crawled out from under the bike, sobered up and convinced her that 911 was unnecessary because I was OK. It was a few minutes after she left that I realized I had a problem: How to right a bike that had its front wheel on top of a tool box, was laying on it's side, and leaking gas. But this is a thread about what we've hit, not about how we righted a tipped bike. That story for another time.
Jim
 
Wow, that's some story Jim. Surely you've got some pics?
 
I did take a door off a car when it opened in front of me on the Embankment in London on my 1952/4 Ariel in the seventies... I also clobbered my wife's car when I pulled up on wet grass next to it...the dent is still there the Triumph that did it was sold to fund the Pan!!!!!!
 
Just re-read these posts. Wow! Lots of good ones. Do any of our new members have any stories????

ToddC
 
I have done in two birds, a snake, several turtles and one enormous moth with bikes. None were intentional.
One bird flew up behind my face shield and almost caught my left eye. No traffic was light so I was able to stop and remove it. Just some scratches but the bird didn't fare so well.
I killed Mothra just after midnight on a country road in east Texas. Caught it dead center of the face shield. The thing was so big that bug goo covered it to the point I had to cock my head back to see where I was going. Stopped at a closed gas station and cleaned the helmet (same one as with the bird strike). The moth wings covered half the face shield. This was my last open faced helmet.
Most spectacular was years back on a Louisiana country road in my 1972 VW. I struck a very large herd of chickens (yes, as they crossed the road) after a blind curve. Must have hit all of them. The air behind the car looked like a feather bed/grenade accident.
Overall I have been lucky.
 
Oldbikefixr said:
Most spectacular was years back on a Louisiana country road in my 1972 VW. I struck a very large herd of chickens (yes, as they crossed the road) after a blind curve. Must have hit all of them. The air behind the car looked like a feather bed/grenade accident.
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I did that with my tandem bicycle on a back road in southern Ohio 20 years ago, but it was just the one bird I hit. Your description of a grenade in a feather bed is very accurate. And nobody will EVER know why that chicken tried to cross the road, after first making a break for safety in the proper direction then reversing herself. Took me a week to finish picking feathers out of the chains and gears. Fortunately we did not go down; we were doing close to 35 mph at the point of impact.
 
How about an I don't know! Hit something while changing lanes in traffic(head turned looking over shoulder). ST jumped up then I hear a clanging sound. I'm thinking "crap something broke the case the engines out of oil and the rods are knocking". Well it turned out the centerstand spring was missing and the loop that holds the spring was broken open . Tied it up with bungee cords and motored on!
 
Thank you ATGATT!
Many years ago, riding a Nighthawk from Prescott to Phoenix. I was beebopping along around 60MPH when it suddenly looked like someone threw a handful of rocks in front of me. It was a swarm of bees. I hit them all. I had stunned bees all over my legs, jacket, gloves and helmet. A few stunned bees had also found themselves on the INSIDE of my full face visor.
Not knowing what to do, and certainly not wanting to pull over with bees all over me, I pinned opened the throttle. Most of them eventually got sucked off. Then I hit the brakes hard, pulled over, slid off my helmet and very gently coaxed the remaining bees out.
I was very lucky to not get stung. My Dad was a beekeeper so I'm kinda fond of the little guys.
 
Here's one I guilty about. Sorry, it's a car story. Many years ago my wife and I were in California for an anniversary trip. We were visiting the beach in a rented Ford Focus. Me being the mature one that I am, I was having fun scaring the birds in a vacant parking lot at the beach.
I happened upon a flock of roughly 25 seagulls standing there looking dumb and thought it would be fun to drive through them to make them all fly away.
Dumb seagulls. I was only going about 15MPH. None of them flew away. They didn't even try to move. :eek::(
 
Driving in Nova Scotia sometime around 1978. 2 vehicles ahead was a pickup truck full of household effects. Driving at highway speeds a pillow flies out of the pickup and explodes in a cloud of feathers when struck by the car in front of me. Immediately I drive into a white wall. No time to react at all, I suck in a half breath and emerge. holding my breath as if from a mirage.
 
two_wheeled said:
Here's one I guilty about. Sorry, it's a car story. Many years ago my wife and I were in California for an anniversary trip. We were visiting the beach in a rented Ford Focus. Me being the mature one that I am, I was having fun scaring the birds in a vacant parking lot at the beach.
I happened upon a flock of roughly 25 seagulls standing there looking dumb and thought it would be fun to drive through them to make them all fly away.
Dumb seagulls. I was only going about 15MPH. None of them flew away. They didn't even try to move. :eek::(
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So......you are what happened to a "Flock of Seagulls"!!!! :)

ToddC
 
About 13 or 14 Years ago (84 Aspencade) A large Yellow Lab thought it would be fun to chase a group of us. 7 bikes in the VA hills on a beautiful sunny day, chased down the lead bike and changed his mind, circled back and made a run at me (5th bike), did not change his mind as he went for my right foot (45mph) on a narrow 2 lane stretch on a bend in the road and caught my highway peg in the jaw, 6th bike just missed him to his left and then the dog jumped back to the right track of the lane where the 7th bike hit him square.
1989 Goldwing (stayed up somehow) rotor cover ripped off and blew out the fork seal. Dog did not make it, I will leave out the details, my buddy was really shook up. It took him an hour before he considered getting back on the bike. Emotional moment for all.
 
Low speed "kisses" on a Wild Turkey poult and an adult Canada Goose. All survived, I hope.

Black Bear ran between by brother's bike and mine on the Skyline Drive. Who was scared more?

The bike sheared off a 4+ inch diameter pine (after we parted company) but started back up and rode 170 miles home with 8 broken ribs. The avatar is after that.
 
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