I was riding home from my sister's place tonight and all of a sudden something that looked like a ping pong ball sized chunk of dirt came flying at from the right. I expected it to be coming from a car and judged the arc and decided a didn't need to move but it still hit me! Didn't hurt, just caught me by surprise and hit me a little above my pocket. When I got home I inspected the remnants left on my pants it kinda looks like bug splatter. I'm thinking it was a giant moth. Didn't expect to see anything like flying over a 4 lane freeway. [roll]
What's the biggest thing that hit you/ you hit? I've finished a ride w/ more than a few butterflies splattered over the visor and a butterfly stuck in my air vent. At least they're squishy and don't knock you back like a june bug. Those things are like hitting a rock.
I had a two inch single link of chain fly off the back of a truck and smash my windshield in my cage. I'm VERY thankful I wasn't on the bike. That would have make the beast with two backsed me up.
I had a bird smash into the windshield of my car. if that wasn't weird enough, it happened again about an hour later. i shit you not, 2 birds in one day. left just a puff of feathers in my rearview both times.
I had one of these"
(http://www.richard-seaman.com/Wallpaper/Nature/Birds/Parrots/SulphurCrestedCockatooThumbnail.jpg)
take out a front indicator once!
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I had a chunk of asphalt drop off a dump truck and nail me on the local beltway. Thank God it wasn't cement. I broke into pieces on impact but did break my headlight. Pissed me off something fierce.
I had a very large beetle hit me the other day. the worst part is that his spiky appendage was able to grab hold of the fabric of my summer-tech jacket.
It's a little distracting to catch something crawling around on you out of your peripheral vision. Next red light I took care of it.
I had a bird hit my helmet. I was riding across a bridge in the left lane about to pass an 18wheeler and out of nowhere a bird took a dive and skimmed off my helmet.
Had a (thankfully short) piece of 2x4 fly up and hit me on the leg on the freeway. I was very glad for my protective armor. [thumbsup]
Also had some large bug, think a bumblebee, smack me on the nose the other day on a bicycle ride, going about 30 mph.
Theres two things i remember most significantly. one was the sidewall of a rubber tire from a econoline van.
The other one.... i was going down a large avenue in the city and doing about 45-50 and i had my visor up since i had sunglasses in, and something strikes me in the forehead, it make the beast with two backsing hurt, and i had some blood, thought it was the beak from a bird that hit me. i thought nothing of it, until my head started buzzing, and i was hearing things. Couldnt figure out what it was, but i kept on riding to my friends house nearby. I stop and take of my helmet and a dragon fly falls out of my head twitching around.
Two worst I have had:
1) On a Harley, I had a small piece (maybe 9"x12") of plywood shoot up in front of me. I toe-punched it doing about 75mph. A couple inched higher and it could have taken out my shin or knee.
2)I took a bee sting right on the neck at about 30mph.
bee stings while riding really suck. Nailed a big bumble right in the left side of neck, just underneath my MX helmet.
About a year ago I hit something similar, but this was in flight. all that was left were what looked like spider legs on my head light. Then about a week later in our garage I saw this spider like thing go running across our garage floor - really fast!!!!!
Turns out it was something similar to an Arizona wind spider. Not scary, but gross!!!! I couldn't even bring myself to kill it when I saw it run out of the garage because it was so wierd looking.
LOL. Next time though, it's dead like the one that hit my bike!!!!!
Quote from: Monster Dave on April 07, 2009, 03:12:14 PM
About a year ago I hit something similar, but this was in flight. all that was left were what looked like spider legs on my head light. Then about a week later in our garage I saw this spider like thing go running across our garage floor - really fast!!!!!
Turns out it was something similar to an Arizona wind spider. Not scary, but gross!!!! I couldn't even bring myself to kill it when I saw it run out of the garage because it was so wierd looking.
LOL. Next time though, it's dead like the one that hit my bike!!!!!
yeah til it wraps its tail around your neck and plants something in your belly that bursts out... KILL THAT SHIT MAN
I had a bird do a kamikaze attack on me last summer. I saw it coming at me out of the corner of my eye and knew I was going to hit it. I tucked in a bit and took it in the shoulder. It felt like I hit a big rock, but no damage to me.
Golf Ball - some hacker sliced his drive out-of-bounds directly into the front of my helmet. Didn't see it coming and it felt like I had hit a grapefruit.....took about 15 seconds to figure out what had happened, and it smashed the vent lever.... [bang]
Quote from: Monster Dave on April 07, 2009, 03:12:14 PM
About a year ago I hit something similar, but this was in flight. all that was left were what looked like spider legs on my head light. Then about a week later in our garage I saw this spider like thing go running across our garage floor - really fast!!!!!
Turns out it was something similar to an Arizona wind spider. Not scary, but gross!!!! I couldn't even bring myself to kill it when I saw it run out of the garage because it was so wierd looking.
LOL. Next time though, it's dead like the one that hit my bike!!!!!
About once every other year we find one of these giant centipede things in the house. Think 4-6" long and about 1-1.5" wide counting the legs. Darts across a 20' room in about 3 or 4 seconds. Creepy little buggers.
I had a bee fly inside my helmet while I was cruising around parking lot. Stung me right between my nose and my eye. >:(
Bumblebee - doing around 60 down a country 2-lane road, I saw him coming *WHACK!* Sounded like a gunshot inside my helmet when it hit the visor.
Wasp - small but painful. Had my jacket unzipped about 2" on a really hot day, puttering through town, headed into a higher speed limit & wind to cool me off. Wasp hit me in the neck & down my coat. Stung me 5 times down the chest & stomach. I was trying to ride with one hand a beating my stomach and chest area with the other to kill the bastard before he got too far...
Opossum - technically I hit him, but pucker moment anyway. Leaned over in a turn he waddles into my line and I can move around enough to dodge him. *SPLAT* I go into a serious drift and manage to keep the bike upright ~
JM
worst for me as a Cicada at 30mph. those things are flying rocks.
i was jokingly referred to as the bird killer for a while. I hit 4 in one season.. the first of which broke the visor mechanism on a Shoei...
the messiest though... here in texas we hae these giant cicada grasshopper things that are about 3-4 inches from end to end... and they swarm... on my old zx7 (wide front end) i was lucky enough to be the one to cut the path for the guys i was riding with while they tucked in behind me... i was covered and the bike was all but ruined... no light coming through from the headlights, one of the air intakes was completelly clogged... it was aweful
I've taken out my share of deer while in my cages. Had a deer go through the windsheild of one. Once in my Wrangler with no top or doors, a buzzard flew in the passenger side and got intimate with my soon to be ex-girlfriend. She didn't appreciate it as much as I did. Lots of bugs on the bike and rock here and there but nothing major yet.
DanTheMan hit me once. Well, kinda. It was more like he and his bike got in the way as I was flying through the air. I still maintain that he hit me though.
Quote from: Spidey on April 08, 2009, 12:11:35 PM
DanTheMan hit me once. Well, kinda. It was more like he and his bike got in the way as I was flying through the air. I still maintain that he hit me though.
I think he was trying to get you back after you threw knee pucks at him. ;)
riding the suzuki with a half helmet and a dragon fly nailed me right between the eyes thought for sure it split my Oakleys guts everywhere my eyes watering trying to get off the road without seeing anything was scary
Quote from: Monster Dave on April 07, 2009, 03:12:14 PM
About a year ago I hit something similar, but this was in flight. all that was left were what looked like spider legs on my head light. Then about a week later in our garage I saw this spider like thing go running across our garage floor - really fast!!!!!
Turns out it was something similar to an Arizona wind spider. Not scary, but gross!!!! I couldn't even bring myself to kill it when I saw it run out of the garage because it was so wierd looking.
LOL. Next time though, it's dead like the one that hit my bike!!!!!
Do you mean a "Sun Spider"...? One of these gross looking things.. I see them all the time in Payson and they are gross looking...
(http://www.richard-seaman.com/USA/States/California/CoachellaValleyPreserve/SunSpider.jpg)
Quote from: z0mb1e_DUC on April 07, 2009, 02:43:53 PM
bee stings while riding really suck. Nailed a big bumble right in the left side of neck, just underneath my MX helmet.
+1 Bee stings suck.
A few years ago, I was riding to Pittsburgh on the PA Turnpike, and I rode through a "cloud" of cicada. When I arrived at my uncle's place in Castle Shannon there were about 25 of them stuck in various crevasses of the bike. Cicadas don't splat: they're like little rubber bullets. But my incident pales in comparison to DLSGAP's story.
A hawk.
It was scavenging something on the side of the road and took flight as I approached.
I hit it with the left clip on and it bounced and hit me in the shoulder.
my father just called me and had his side airbags go off after a huge rock was kicked but into his wheel well from his tire
When I was a teenager I had a friend who's family lived at the bottom of a big hill. One day a local tractor tire company truck lost a wheel/tire from the bed of the pickup at the top of the hill. My friend's mom was outside when she saw the wheel/tire come down the hill bouncing. She said the tire was as high as the top of the tree in their front yard when it landed on the hood of her Opel. Totalled the car.
30 gallon galvanized garbage can came over the center divider on the Houston freeway. I was doing 70 mph and I'm guessing it was doing about the same from the other direction. In an instant everything over the signal lights was just gone. Handlebars, instruments, headlight, faring, windscreen gone. It took out the kill switch so the bike shut down and I rode it to a halt holding onto the signal lights. Dumped it at the very end because I had no clutch to work with and really nothing to hold on to as we ground to an in-gear halt.
Riding through Deal's Gap at night a couple of summers ago, a big bat flew right into my chest.
Quote from: A.B on April 17, 2009, 11:14:02 AM
Riding through Deal's Gap at night a couple of summers ago, a big bat flew right into my chest.
we now dub thee "Batman"
Here's the feathers plucked by my bike from a pigeon in mid-flight (me, bike, and pigeon)...
I can still recall the look of horror in the pigeon's eye when it realised what was about to happen... I imagine my look wasn't much different.
The white smudges on the black plastic above the headlight (and more on the headlight, turn signal, and bikini fairing, that you can't see) were all left by the pigeon.
(http://www.nigelstreet.com/pigeonSmall.jpg)
Quote from: Tigermeat on April 16, 2009, 06:32:51 PM
30 gallon galvanized garbage can came over the center divider on the Houston freeway. I was doing 70 mph and I'm guessing it was doing about the same from the other direction. In an instant everything over the signal lights was just gone. Handlebars, instruments, headlight, faring, windscreen gone. It took out the kill switch so the bike shut down and I rode it to a halt holding onto the signal lights. Dumped it at the very end because I had no clutch to work with and really nothing to hold on to as we ground to an in-gear halt.
:o That's about the scariest one I've heard on this thread. I'm guessing fresh pants were in order?
Once had a yellow jacket fly into my mouth. Luckily my lightning fast ninja instincts kicked in and I chewed him before he had a chance to sting me.
How did I know it was a yellow jacket you ask? I found his chewed up, spit covered, carcass stuck to the front of my jacket when I immediately pulled over.
Ive almost hit a 6' long steel I beam, step ladder, extension ladder pressure treated 6 x 6 to name several. Narrowly missing each item gave me a chill down my spine..
Last summer I had a retread separate in front of me going at good clip down the slab. :o
It hit the bike on the lower right fairing and I drove over it.
One of the largest Adrenalin rushes I have ever had.
B was riding behind me and saw it all unfold. He thought I was going to be a goner.
I hit a pedestrian holding a baby.
I was pulling up to a light past a line of stopped cars and she darted out from behind a box van. Apparently she was running to catch a bus and decided going to the crosswalk was too much trouble.
I did a massive stoppy. Knocked her over, I didn't even bother with my bike, just ran over to make sure she was okay and it damn near gave me a heart attack when I saw the baby.
Cops & Ambulance showed up, she was fine, baby was fine, plenty of witnesses saying it wasn't my fault.
Still, despite the lack of injuries, it was the worst moment I've ever had on my bike. Thanks for reminding me.
Doing about 80 on the 101 here in Thousand Oaks, when a lady throws a Big Gulp cup out the window. [bang]
Nowhere to escape, so I took it on the front part of my right shoulder/chest. The thing was still full off ice! >:(
...pregnant dog
Riding one weekend out here in the philippines when all of a sudden a small branch of a coconut tree fell right on top of my helmet,scared the shit out of me! At first i didn't know what hit me till i stopped and looked behind,luckily i didn't panic and did something stupid.
Quote from: swampduc on April 17, 2009, 02:29:53 PM
:o That's about the scariest one I've heard on this thread. I'm guessing fresh pants were in order?
Actually I was too messed-up to care. I got hit by many of the parts as well as the trash can itself. Just LUCKY to be able to share the story.
Tiger
Quote from: Tigermeat on April 16, 2009, 06:32:51 PM
30 gallon galvanized garbage can came over the center divider on the Houston freeway. I was doing 70 mph and I'm guessing it was doing about the same from the other direction. In an instant everything over the signal lights was just gone. Handlebars, instruments, headlight, faring, windscreen gone. It took out the kill switch so the bike shut down and I rode it to a halt holding onto the signal lights. Dumped it at the very end because I had no clutch to work with and really nothing to hold on to as we ground to an in-gear halt.
are you make the beast with two backsing kidding me?
96 Chevy Cavalier. :P
Don't know if this counts. I kind of hit "it", but in my defense, it shouldn't of been in the middle of the highway in heavy traffic being exactly where i needed to go and not visible until it was too late.
(http://www.pallet.com.hk/articles/article_20_Logistics%20Wooden%20Pallet.jpg)
Riding in a country road. Stuck behind an open bed truck seemingly empty. He brakes and gets to the side to let me pass. Ofcourse when he brakes the dry cow dung (i think) flows out towards me and part of it got me. Stinky stinky stinky.
Errrmmm, I think it might have been a tram...
http://www.howwedrive.com/2009/05/18/traffic-safety-film-of-the-week-11/ (http://www.howwedrive.com/2009/05/18/traffic-safety-film-of-the-week-11/)
[evil]
big (I don't suppose those drivers are any better at seeing motorcycles...)
Last year on the 405 in Cali I was riding with my friend and girlfriend. I was in the back and I see something pop out from under an suv in front of my friend. It looked like a big piece of cardboard but realized it wasn't when I saw him bounce over it. He stayed up but was airborne for a moment. By the time my girlfriend caught up to the object it was obvious that it was a roll of carpeting! It had now unrolled enough to have about 8 feet of it standing vertically. She hit the wall of brown carpet head on and amazingly enough it folded down under her. I had enough time to move over a lane and avoid it.
While in my truck a week ago I saw a guy on the side of the freeway frantically trying to retrieve a bunch of baseball bats that had fallen out of his truck.