Odd accident (not me)

[Cormanus]

They were mowing the shoulders around Robbinsville during the rally and they shot all the clippings into the streets !

Yes, and wasn't it unnerving?

[ride4now_imp]

They were mowing the shoulders around Robbinsville during the rally and they shot all the clippings into the streets !

Yes, and wasn't it unnerving?

Yes, and wasn't it unnerving?
I didn't like that at all... especially after it rained and the clippings were wet.

[Southwend]

I was coming over the mountains here in Virginia years ago on route 28 to Luray. I was on the old HD Cafe', not exactly agile, I hit the oil strip in the road at speed and had both tires slide to the outside of the curve with a guardrail and a precipitous drop looming. Just a ten inch or so slide sideways mind you. It scared me so bad that my butt almost inhaled the seat. Thought I was going to need it surgically removed.

That was probably 30 years ago but I still think of it sometimes at night when I am falling asleep and my legs jerk up like a dog dreaming about squirrels.

[Cormanus]

Southwend, it's funny you should mention the phenomenon of recalling 'heroic' moments at the moment you are falling asleep. Back in 1973 I broke my left tibia and fibula when some clown knocked my off a 250 Suzuki. I spent 7 months with my leg in a cast to the crotch. The cast had a rubber stopper-like thing built into it so, in theory at least, I could take some weight on it. At some moment I'd had enough of not being on a bike and a mate offered to take me for a ride on the back of his Honda CB750 Four. Of course I accepted and we proceed with me resting the stopper on the outside of the driver's footpeg.

I can still recall the moment when we shot through a deserted pedestrian underpass when I wondered what would happen if my foot slipped off the outside of the peg. I still recall it "... sometimes at night when I am falling asleep and my legs jerk up like a dog dreaming about ..." possums.