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05-27-2006, 03:03 AM
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| Fourth gear and illegal   Joined: Aug 2005
Bike: 2003 Suzuki GSX-R600
Location: Killeen, Texas
Posts: 745
  |  A muffler hit me in the head!! I was heading down the highway earlier today on my way to a friend's graduation ceremony. I was rolling along in the right lane doing about 75 or so and coming up on a full size van in the left. I see up the road some sort of pipe laying across his lane, well apparently he didn't see it. He ran right over that thing, and it popped up in the air, started spinning, and came across into my lane. I ducked down and headed for the far right side of the lane but it glanced off the top of my helmet. Gave me a little headache but that was it! Luckily nobody behind me hit it. D Klein, that's crazy that you and me both get hit with mufflers within a couple of days. Makes you wonder, what the heck are people's exhaust systems doing chilling in the middle of the highway? lol. Then on the way home a semi jacknifed in front of me and went through the concrete barrier, where a car proceeded to run into the trailer. Luckily (and how I don't know) nobody was seriously injured. Stay safe out there guys, Memorial Day Weekend is a dangerous weekend to be riding!
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05-27-2006, 03:16 AM
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| Sit speling cheker   Joined: Jan 2006
Bike: 2006 Blue M50 *SOLD* '05 Anniversary Edition VMax #1878
Location: Vancouver B.C. Canada
Posts: 1,728
| Holy crap. What the heck's going on down there. Good to hear you're OK CMan and that you had your brainbucket on (not that you wouldn't). What's next...'our pets' heads are fallin' off'... 
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05-27-2006, 06:38 AM
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| Member Investigator Joined: Oct 2005
Bike: '03 Santa Cruz
Location: Greensboro, NC
Posts: 1,022
| cmant you have to be the luckiest guy on the planet. It seems every few days I read about some crazy stuff that happens to you. If you are old enough you should play the lottery. With the kind of luck you have getting out of stuff that would kill the rest of us you would surely win. Either that or there is some yanking of the chain going on...
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05-27-2006, 09:25 AM
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| M-J Member of the Month!   Joined: Oct 2005
Bike: 2005 HAMMER
Location: SOCAL %%%%%ES
Posts: 3,031
| Remember the biker wisdom.."you wanna know what going on...Look five cars forward" Glad you were not hurt. The key to staying alive is being alert. Strange things have been know to be left in the roadway. Road kill is a bad one. Exhaust systems are pretty gnarly...but could you imagine a wheel weight from a bull dozer. One of my fellow workers hit one with his RX-7...tore the undercarriage out from the car. Imagine a bike hitting such a thing. It was dark and the object was black. The piece missed his seat bottom by 5 inches. 
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05-27-2006, 12:12 PM
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| Fourth gear and illegal Joined: Aug 2005
Bike: 2003 Suzuki GSX-R600
Location: Killeen, Texas
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How big is a wheel weight from a bulldozer? I'm only familiar with the .25-2.00 oz. weights that we use on cars.
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05-27-2006, 12:59 PM
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| Found second gear by accident   Joined: Apr 2005
Bike: 05" Honda ST1300
Location: Rio Vista, CA
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05-27-2006, 01:05 PM
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| M-J Member of the Month! Joined: Oct 2005
Bike: 2005 HAMMER
Location: SOCAL %%%%%ES
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05-27-2006, 11:45 PM
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| Throttle Jockey  Joined: Oct 2005 Location: St Paul Mn
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| Glad your OK!!! I had a deer go over my head once, the car in front of me hit it, and sent it air born, it spun right past my head. It was dark, and I never saw it, till it flew past me, showering me with blood.
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05-28-2006, 03:46 PM
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| Where Am I ?  Joined: Apr 2006
Bike: 2006 Roadliner S
Location: Oklahoma
Posts: 49
| OMG! Gald to here you weren't harmed.
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05-29-2006, 03:21 PM
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| Bridal Boutique Clerk  Joined: Feb 2005
Bike: 96 GSXF 750, 02 Triumph Daytona 955i
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Posts: 11
| If you got hit hard enough to get a headache, you should replace the helmet. Get it checked out at the very least. Glad to hear you're OK.
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05-29-2006, 04:58 PM
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| Leaned over, knee down  Joined: Nov 2004
Bike: '97 suzuki savage, '90 honda shadow, '75 kh400, and a broom
Location: fort worthless
Posts: 4,678
| this reminds me of an accident last year in fort worth. guy on a bike saw what looked like a gray box in his lane. so he decided to kick it out of the way of the riders behind him. it was one of those electric meter boxes. always dodge that stuff and never make any assumptions about what you think it might be.
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| Throttle Jockey Joined: Oct 2005 Location: St Paul Mn
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05-30-2006, 12:28 PM
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| Leaned over, knee down Joined: Nov 2004
Bike: '97 suzuki savage, '90 honda shadow, '75 kh400, and a broom
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i'm sure that after this weekend there will be lots of pictures to verify it.
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05-30-2006, 02:00 PM
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| Found second gear by accident  Joined: Apr 2006
Bike: 2006 Blue M50
Location: Northeast Houston
Posts: 316
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With the loudness of some vehicles on the road they probably didn't know that their exhaust system fell off.  | |
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