04-14-2016, 09:15 PM
Cormanus is right I was just listing some of the things you MAY run into, but let me list a few more of the things I have personally found in the middle of the road here besides deer... Horse, cow, pig, goat, dog, chicken, turkeys, black headed vultures on a dead raccoon or possum, tobacco planters, hay bailers, bush hogs, crews trimming trees, mufflers, pickups towing horse trailers, hub caps, entire truck wheels, school busses stopped to let off kids, broken down cars with lights flashing, people backing out of driveways, people pulling out of church, local cops, county Sheriffs and State Highway Patrol sitting running radar or driving towards you, sand, gravel, transmission fluid, radiator fluid etc. I was following a guy on a local road one time, he was riding a VFR, he was following a Bandit 1250. I knew they were going too fast and I knew what was coming up (having previously made the same mistake myself only in my car) , they obviously didn't. A blind rise with a 90 degree right hand turn immediately over the rise. I started slowing but they kept their speed over the rise, missing the turn completely, thankfully missing oncoming cars and ran straight into a cornfield where they both crashed. The people that live on the farm came walking down with little plastic Walmart bags to help the guys pick up their mirrors and fairing pieces. It's how they spend their weekends, sitting on the porch, watching the motorcyclists from the city miss that turn and crash in their corn field (not just sport bikers either, lots of cruisers have ended up in that field...and yes my car did as well). There is one road down here with dozens of blind curves and rises and you just never know what is over the other side, or around the curve.
Now this has nothing to do with what the CB is capable of because like I have previously stated the bike was designed to run from 2500 to 8000 rpms in all gears ie: you can run it at 2500 rpms in 6th or you can run it to 8000 in first. This is more a case of how should you ride given the obstacles that you can not see but may encounter on the roads you normally ride on, and that can vary from location to location. At a very soon to be 66, I no longer throw caution to the wind when riding, but rather err on the side of caution. Flip a coin, it's not always going to land on heads. The trick is riding so you don't land on yours.
Now this has nothing to do with what the CB is capable of because like I have previously stated the bike was designed to run from 2500 to 8000 rpms in all gears ie: you can run it at 2500 rpms in 6th or you can run it to 8000 in first. This is more a case of how should you ride given the obstacles that you can not see but may encounter on the roads you normally ride on, and that can vary from location to location. At a very soon to be 66, I no longer throw caution to the wind when riding, but rather err on the side of caution. Flip a coin, it's not always going to land on heads. The trick is riding so you don't land on yours.