[jedney]

A concrete median in a parking lot due to a dumbarse cager pulling out in front of me. Was going very slow so not too much damage to me... broke the windshield on the bike and the visor of my helmet... thank god for the helmet or I'd be toofless right now.

Leaves... d@mn leaves... in a turn caused a low side. Broke the left side under faring and I had a sore knee for a few days.

Locked up the rear brake and slid off the road caused a high side... that one hurt for a while. Warped front wheel, bent inner fork tube, left, and bent axle. Oh yeah, messed up the left side fairing pretty good.

And then there are the various bugs and other road grit/grime.

I have now taken my first bug to the eyeball... Did it on Sunday and it still kinda hurts on Wednesday. Same day took a large bug under the same eye, that one stung for a few minutes.

[2000GSXKatana]

haven't been riding long but yesterday there was this idiot in a f150 with two maybe three sheets of aspenite in the bed, not strapped down with tailgate down,

long story short i ended up shifting down and switching lanes BARELY missing the second piece that came out ON ROUTE 50!! i was mad, but owell nothing bad happened to me

that was my contribution/vent lol

[ADyingBreed]

1. the usual: gravel, sand, leaves, twigs/branches, potholes, steel grates

2. i was riding mulholland highway at night and all of a sudden i see two raccoons crossing the road right in front of me(****!), so i tried to brake as much as i could before I got to them and thankfully it worked because instead of going right over theis big *** coon's mid section, I smacked him accross the tail or ***.

3. mulholland highway again. this time during the day, a squirrel I thought was going the other way across the road darted back infront of me and made my front tire jump about 3 inches. scarier than the raccoon during the hit but not before it lol.

oh and of course several close calls where i have lifted my rear end up from braking so hard(and on a scooter no less where all the weight is on the rear with only one tiny disc brake up front)

[zuma]

The rabbit I had to kick out of my path was quite an experience, but I just remembered a worse one. I was zipping down I-20 between Odessa and Midland Tx., and something I never saw lightly smacked my helmet above the visor...and I could no longer breathe and began to choke and gag. I had to stop on the side of the road and pull off my helmet and sit down to catch a breath of fresh air.

I don't know the particulars of what happened, but someone or something had flung about a teaspoon full of (I'm thinking human/no, it was) shee-uht and hit me right in the open vent atop my helmet. Again, the specific source was a mystery, though the original random source was quite clear. I had to clean it out with a stick and get on to my gig. Once there, I scrubbed it with a liquid detergent and rinsed it. This really happened.

IT!!

Now that's funny!!!!! Funny, Ryde!!!!!!

[Suzy750f]

I hit a car

I hit an XD falcon sedan, tore the bumper off with my leg. Idiot turned into a service station driveway across the front of me as i accelerated from the lights and left me the head on with oncoming traffic or the rear quarter panel of his car decision, so i picked the rear. Hit it, rolled over the boot and onto the road right in the middle, curled up listening to the howl of locked tyres on the road, waiting for a thump, but never came. Never broke anything, had my left knee strapped for a month or so. Bike was a write off. Was about 15 years ago.

[Enjay386]

In my car, probably a deer or some animal. A cat once - semi on purpose, it was the worst cat ever! Yeah, I said it. Lol.

On my bike... a dead skunk, slippery stuff.

[the wind]

A cat once - semi on purpose, it was the worst cat ever!

the trick is to marinade longer

[BLACKDEATH]

Lets see here.

a few turtles of diffrent sizes.
one 2 X4
and a freaking racoon that did some plastic damage.

Other than that ive been doing pretty good.

[Absyn-thesis]

the trick is to marinade longer

Everybody relies on marinades. Bah. You gotta remember--baste and only turn ONCE.

[JokerZwild]

The Pavement!

[Jon2288]

Turtles? sounds like you are riding in some wild places lol

I hit a baby rabbit once, came out in the middle of a corner and there was no time for me to react, all I could do was look back and hope he got up. Poor little guy.

[md86]

Turtles? sounds like you are riding in some wild places lol

Ain't gotta be THAT wild to see turtles . I see 'em sometimes .

[jaybz77]

So there I was, learning how to ride my new 2003 Kat.....for the first time. My buddy who was assisting in the new found riding experience deciding I was ok enough to take it around the neighborhood by myself. Now, I new how to accelerate, and brake. Thats it. Noone told me I would have to make some turns. Anyway, I was about to attempt a very slow U-turn to come back to the house. Why a U-turn you might ask. Well didnt have a class M on my licenses and a busy road was coming soon, didnt want to get into an accident or get pulled over. So I was attempting this slow pathetic looking U with my legs shot out to what i can only describe the most embarrassing looking thing on a bike. I have a little to much gas half through and totally forgot about a brake and clutch. This accelerated me onto the edge of a driveway where the road meets the driveway creating a ramp. This ramp lauched me straight into a mailbox. The flag stuck into my shoulder like an arrow, and the mailbox was gone. As was one of my headlights.

[jonathanmaples]

thats not good. i almost hit a cow i started down this backroad no lane markings just chillin in 2nd i startled a cow and it ran into the road i dodged ramped the drainage ditch killing a lawn gnome and sliding into a concrete bird feeder (on zx7 not a dirt bike)

[gimmefuel]

I have hit about 120 on the road.