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I ride daily in ridiculous Southern Cali traffic and always wander about what I may find in my lane one day....We always have ladders and crazy stuff layin in lanes.

I am just curious, for whatever reason it was, what object you ran over on your bike without much negative feedback from your bike (getting ran over or bouncing across the freeway).

For example:
I ran over a water hose the other day.

Chad.

Rocks. Big rocks. Hitting a fist sized rock at 40-50 mph SUCKS big time and results in a mini-wheelie and wiggly bars with an unsure landing half a second later. Not fun, but not THAT big of a deal, just unsettling the first few times, then you learn to deal with it and not panic.

sorry, I hope I dont offend anyone by putting this in the "Experienced Riders Forum". I thought I put it in the New Forum.

It wasn't me, but I was a few feet away. My buddy and I were flying down a Southern New Mexico interstate on a dark night. We were side by side (not smart at night), riding a couple of brand new Kawasaki 750s. Everything was great until we came upon the flat car tire that someone left in the road. There wasn't even time to swerve and my pal hit it head on. His bike jumped about 2 feet in the air at around 70 mph. I remember seeing his headlight at my eye level. Miraculously he landed on the other side of the tire without losing it, and without taking me out. I was stunned We immediately pulled over and the only damage to his bike was a leaking fork seal and the hub cover on the front wheel had deformed enough to chop the heads off of all of the screws that held it on.

I'm certain that one of the reasons that he didn't crash was that it happened so fast, he didn't have time to do anything stupid

Edit : I forgot to add, the biggest thing I've personally run over was a small coyote.

A cow.



















Just kidding, a really big pot hole, in a bad area around here, where the roads aren't taken care of.

we have alot of industrial trucks out here and they form little grooves in the road with broken pavement. my bikes tires have fallen into the grooves...got me a little excited cuz it felt like if i moved the wheel it would have ended in a not so pretty way.

i went of a backpack. was scared as crap cause i wasent sure i was gonna stay up, and almost went down. Lucky for me the kid was a slacker and had few books in it so it wasent too big.



JWF

2x4s at MSF were probably the biggest... unless you count the ungodly huge speed bumps at my girlfriend's apartment complex... I see all these cars bottoming out on them all the time. I actually worry that if I had the exhaust under the bike like a buell that I woudl probably mash it up going over those monsters.

I was following a car to closely on my V-MAX one time and ran over a 4X4. Luckily I hit it perpendicular but later found out that it bent my front axle.
Then, when I was in AZ. attending MMI, I was riding my Ascot to school and a big orange construction sign was lying in my path. Just as I began to swerve around it, a gust of wind picked up the sign and it hit me dead in the chest. Luckily, it touched nothing on the bike. All I could see was orange. I just grabbed it by it's side and peeled it off me. My buddy was behind me, laughing like crazy.
And I've mistakingly launched myself off railroad tracks, coming down so hard on the front tire that the bike, my CBR600F3, went into an immediate tank-slapper.

havent hit anything with the bike yet, hit a weasel with my truck once....