Look out!

[dailyrider_imp]

https://i.imgur.com/8R3L0R2.gifv

[the Ferret]

Well he sure didn't take any evasive action. Lucky lucky lucky

[CB4ME_imp]

Something like that could ruin your day. Lucky is right.

[Nortoon_imp]

I believe they call that nervous freeze "Target Fixation".

[Pauley]

We can't see what happened in the seconds before this, but I would bet there were clues he could have reacted to to create more margin: a truck with a mattress on it flapping in the slip stream - DUH. Slow down and move over!

[Frulk_imp]

Well, I would prefer not to hit anything while riding BUT, if it came to it a mattress is a lot more forgiving than a lot of other stuff I've seen the roads littered with.

[Stichill_imp]

[Cormanus]

You gotta love the way people stop to help. See that white SUV on the right?

[flynrider]

Those videos bring to mind an incident I had a couple of years ago, when a couch came off the truck next to me at 70 mph. It missed my head by a few feet.

When maneuvering to avoid a moving obstacle, I tend to aim at where the obstacle is. Chances are good that it won't be there when your bike arrives at that point. The rider in the second video tried to get ahead of the moving object and couldn't quite outrun it.

[Rolls_imp]

Ack! Boats, bikes loaded on the back of SUVs, anything in a pickup truck... I just don't trust any of it to be secured. I never follow anything like that, and try not to even be a car or two behind it. Stuff comes off all the time!

Saw a huge plate glass window do a number like that mattress not too long ago, luckily on the other side of the interstate. It just leapt off the glass man's truck and floated through the air gently rotating before it came crashing down.

Even with due caution, there's plenty of unexpected stuff that can be in front of you suddenly.

Those short pants, though!