Yes if they don't sweep the apron after loading it can take miles for it all to shake off. At 70 mph those loose rocks can get quite a bounce off the pavement.
@gggGary the chicken poop haulers are "wet" loads?
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Describe your least-favorite Cager
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@gggGary the chicken poop haulers are "wet" loads?
Well I didn't go looking, but yeah sounded like a wet mess of crap, not sure if it was a leaky valve or running out under a tailgate.
Wow gggGary, hope no serious damage, but more importantly, you're both ok. That could have left you both horizontal. Glad you made it through unscathed.
Spun it just now, either a slight flat spot, wiggle or where the rim was welded, can't tell for sure yet.
This rim, it's pretty beefy.
This rim, it's pretty beefy.
As it was originally written . For those of you that have seen it before Sorry to bore you ....
I roll up to a red light second behind a soccer mom from hell, in an SUV, talking on the cell phone and touching up her makeup in the rear view mirror.
The light turns green, she readjusts the rear view mirror as she starts to move forward and sees me, on a KZ1000 Police, dynamites the brakes in the middle of the intersection and puts her seat belt on. I almost collected her bumper, leaving only a small rubber smear.
Yes there is more. Facing us at the light is one of the county's finest who does a u-turn behind me and lights me up. As I look behind me the woman again dynamites the brakes. This time I do touch her bumper solidly (still no damage to the bike) and the county cop rear ends me just hard enough to push me into the soccer mom's bumper the third time.
The cop barely pauses long enough to ask if I'm ok on his way to the soccer mom's SUV where he gets her paper and starts to walk back to his unit. The soccer mom struts back to me still on the phone to get my license number and keeps repeating it on the phone. Now it gets real deep. She is on the phone with 911 reporting a hit and run by a motorcycle... mine!?! As the cop returns, she demands into the phone that I be arrested for repeatedly rear ending her SUV and I would have run if the cop wasn't there . At this point the cop answers his hand held radio and begins to make sense of all of this. The cop starts writing first one citation then another and another as the woman continues her demands on the phone. Finally the cop attempts once, twice, three times to get the woman's attention. "Can't you see I'm on the phone?" she shouts at the cop . "Ma'am if you do not hang up the phone now I will be forced to take action" says the cop. That did it. He then asked her to sign the citations for reckless driving, failure to wear a seat belt, and talking on the phone while in control of a moving vehicle with out a hands free device (a recent and confusing law here). She of course starts screaming at the cop, "I'm not going to sign anything without my lawyer present." In a near whisper the cop says to me, as he walks toward the woman, "Just what I've been waiting for." Our soccer mom adds resisting arrest and assaulting an officer to the list on the way to the back seat of the cop car.
No we're not done yet. The cop apologizes for lighting me up when he should have passed me before turning on the lights and siren. He asks me if he could please write me an equipment violation for a tail light that he will later admit could have happened when bumped into me. I get it and accept, adding that if it was in his power to tell me when this woman was being arraigned I'd like to be there. I realize having to fight this woman to the ground and all the way back to the car is going to need a witness and tell him so. The cop looks visibly relieved as we wait for a tow truck for the SUV.
No, we're not done yet. The tow truck arrives with another unit as back up and traffic control. As the tow truck begins to hook the car a man stops and jumps out of a car he thought he had put in park demanding that the SUV and woman in the back of the first car be released immediately, as his not in park car continues into the second cop car.
These two are cut from the same cloth. The now identified husband ends up in the back of a third car. DUI, resisting arrest, assaulting an officer, reckless endangerment and whatever else.
No, not finished yet. Still at the same intersection the husbands car and the second unit have been removed and all that is left is the tow truck driver finishing his statement stemming from the husbands assault on him. The cop tells me it probably isn't necessary to write me a violation for my non damaged tail light as the tow truck driver starts out into traffic . Before the tow truck driver can get up to speed a woman, in an SUV, without a seat belt, on the telephone, rear ends the soccer mom's SUV being towed not 50 feet from where the cop and I are standing. Almost done. Aid units are dispatched and arrive for the woman's head injuries and as she is being loaded into the aid unit all she wants to know is where her cell phone is.
Ok, last bit. The scene is finally cleared of all vehicles and participants except the cop and I who are now on a first name basis. As we are pulling away we both hear the screech of rubber back at the intersection. There isn't the usual accompanying crash, but I notice that the cop never looked back as he pulled away.
I really don't know that it belongs here. I don't really think there is a moral to all of this other than It used to be the little old lady peeking out from between the steering wheel and the dash going 20 mph under the speed limit that scared me. Now and forever it's the cell phone talking, SUV driving, makeup fixing, soccer mom from hell that scares the daylights out of me.
~kop
I roll up to a red light second behind a soccer mom from hell, in an SUV, talking on the cell phone and touching up her makeup in the rear view mirror.
The light turns green, she readjusts the rear view mirror as she starts to move forward and sees me, on a KZ1000 Police, dynamites the brakes in the middle of the intersection and puts her seat belt on. I almost collected her bumper, leaving only a small rubber smear.
Yes there is more. Facing us at the light is one of the county's finest who does a u-turn behind me and lights me up. As I look behind me the woman again dynamites the brakes. This time I do touch her bumper solidly (still no damage to the bike) and the county cop rear ends me just hard enough to push me into the soccer mom's bumper the third time.
The cop barely pauses long enough to ask if I'm ok on his way to the soccer mom's SUV where he gets her paper and starts to walk back to his unit. The soccer mom struts back to me still on the phone to get my license number and keeps repeating it on the phone. Now it gets real deep. She is on the phone with 911 reporting a hit and run by a motorcycle... mine!?! As the cop returns, she demands into the phone that I be arrested for repeatedly rear ending her SUV and I would have run if the cop wasn't there . At this point the cop answers his hand held radio and begins to make sense of all of this. The cop starts writing first one citation then another and another as the woman continues her demands on the phone. Finally the cop attempts once, twice, three times to get the woman's attention. "Can't you see I'm on the phone?" she shouts at the cop . "Ma'am if you do not hang up the phone now I will be forced to take action" says the cop. That did it. He then asked her to sign the citations for reckless driving, failure to wear a seat belt, and talking on the phone while in control of a moving vehicle with out a hands free device (a recent and confusing law here). She of course starts screaming at the cop, "I'm not going to sign anything without my lawyer present." In a near whisper the cop says to me, as he walks toward the woman, "Just what I've been waiting for." Our soccer mom adds resisting arrest and assaulting an officer to the list on the way to the back seat of the cop car.
No we're not done yet. The cop apologizes for lighting me up when he should have passed me before turning on the lights and siren. He asks me if he could please write me an equipment violation for a tail light that he will later admit could have happened when bumped into me. I get it and accept, adding that if it was in his power to tell me when this woman was being arraigned I'd like to be there. I realize having to fight this woman to the ground and all the way back to the car is going to need a witness and tell him so. The cop looks visibly relieved as we wait for a tow truck for the SUV.
No, we're not done yet. The tow truck arrives with another unit as back up and traffic control. As the tow truck begins to hook the car a man stops and jumps out of a car he thought he had put in park demanding that the SUV and woman in the back of the first car be released immediately, as his not in park car continues into the second cop car.
These two are cut from the same cloth. The now identified husband ends up in the back of a third car. DUI, resisting arrest, assaulting an officer, reckless endangerment and whatever else.
No, not finished yet. Still at the same intersection the husbands car and the second unit have been removed and all that is left is the tow truck driver finishing his statement stemming from the husbands assault on him. The cop tells me it probably isn't necessary to write me a violation for my non damaged tail light as the tow truck driver starts out into traffic . Before the tow truck driver can get up to speed a woman, in an SUV, without a seat belt, on the telephone, rear ends the soccer mom's SUV being towed not 50 feet from where the cop and I are standing. Almost done. Aid units are dispatched and arrive for the woman's head injuries and as she is being loaded into the aid unit all she wants to know is where her cell phone is.
Ok, last bit. The scene is finally cleared of all vehicles and participants except the cop and I who are now on a first name basis. As we are pulling away we both hear the screech of rubber back at the intersection. There isn't the usual accompanying crash, but I notice that the cop never looked back as he pulled away.
I really don't know that it belongs here. I don't really think there is a moral to all of this other than It used to be the little old lady peeking out from between the steering wheel and the dash going 20 mph under the speed limit that scared me. Now and forever it's the cell phone talking, SUV driving, makeup fixing, soccer mom from hell that scares the daylights out of me.
~kop
kop~ well worth reading it the second time. 
I think if I am going to get it bad, it will be a full sized four wheel drive pickup, with dual exhaust and over sized off-road tires, driven by a snot nosed kid that thinks he has the speed and maneuverability of a sports car.
Scott
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Sh!t
Dennis, thanks for sharing. The only thing that could have improved that tale would have been the administration of summary justice with Mace and Taser.
BigJimmyW13
XS650 Guru
This lady...............
Bar just down the road from us had their first "Bike night" of the season on Thursday. We went to town for supper, on way home, saw the med flight chopper hoovering for touch down by the river. Here's about what I know, saw, heard.
Group of riders from a town 30 miles away was at the bar, beverages consumed, At dusk they headed into town on good old twisty 113. Rider was to the back of group. Approaching a hilly left, right "ess" turn he got wide on first curve, front wheel went off pavement onto gravel. He corrected, bike went back left onto pavement, but front wheel was now shaking back and forth, violently. He got pitched off to the left, bike slid down center of road, came to a halt there. Rider hit the guard rail, no helmet. Med flight returned to Madison, empty.
Skull caved, bleeding from ear when first responders got there.
Pogo said "We have met the enemy and he is us."
Group of riders from a town 30 miles away was at the bar, beverages consumed, At dusk they headed into town on good old twisty 113. Rider was to the back of group. Approaching a hilly left, right "ess" turn he got wide on first curve, front wheel went off pavement onto gravel. He corrected, bike went back left onto pavement, but front wheel was now shaking back and forth, violently. He got pitched off to the left, bike slid down center of road, came to a halt there. Rider hit the guard rail, no helmet. Med flight returned to Madison, empty.
Skull caved, bleeding from ear when first responders got there.
Pogo said "We have met the enemy and he is us."
We get a lot of bicyclists traveling around here.
Sometimes causes confusion among the tourists.
And, speaking of gravel trucks...
Sometimes causes confusion among the tourists.
And, speaking of gravel trucks...
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Wow Kop - all i can say is....you lead a rich and varied life!
pago cruiser
XS650 Addict
That is funnier than hell Kop!
I commute to/from work every day, 50 miles one way, with about 80 of it on I10. It's a pretty fast commute, with speeds between 75-85. Cops are generally pretty good if you are not more than 10 over the posted 75 mph. Best parts of my day are riding back and forth.
Except for half a dozen a$$hats in black, white, or blue extended cab long beds raised 6-12" with enough KC lites fort a stadium. Every one of theses gomers drive like sh!t, barging and bullying traffic like they are in a f'ing Miata. And everyone of them wears a baseball hat backwards. Once you see one coming, I've learned to just stay back and watch their antics. Sometimes it gets exciting; it's best when two of these knuckleheads get into it with each other...
I commute to/from work every day, 50 miles one way, with about 80 of it on I10. It's a pretty fast commute, with speeds between 75-85. Cops are generally pretty good if you are not more than 10 over the posted 75 mph. Best parts of my day are riding back and forth.
Except for half a dozen a$$hats in black, white, or blue extended cab long beds raised 6-12" with enough KC lites fort a stadium. Every one of theses gomers drive like sh!t, barging and bullying traffic like they are in a f'ing Miata. And everyone of them wears a baseball hat backwards. Once you see one coming, I've learned to just stay back and watch their antics. Sometimes it gets exciting; it's best when two of these knuckleheads get into it with each other...
Yeah, I know those A$$hls, don't follow them too close, they spit chew out the window.
Scott
Yup - we have those pick-up truck/weekend warrior types too, except that we call them nose-picking dickweeds. The expression @sshats is new to me - but it sure fits! I did actually see a couple of them tangle one time - people actually stopped to watch the festivities and the LEOs sort of "took their time" wading in to break it up. Hilarious.
On a more serious note: a few years back a 20 year old woman in Quebec parked her car in the LEFT HAND lane of a busy highway, got out and was helping some ducks on the shoulder of the road - and a father & daughter on a bike rear-ended her car and were both killed. She was convicted of dangerous driving causing death. Stupid bitch. She recently appealed her conviction and was denied - thank goodness.
Check it out if you're having a nice calm day and feel like getting REALLY angry. I tried to paste a linky but that appears to be beyond my capabilities this bright and sunny Sunday morning. However, simply typing "Quebec woman helping ducks..." ought to bring it up in your google search engine. Get ready to get mad....
If you watch the CTV news video - also prepare to be amazed and impressed by the calm and balanced reaction of the grieving widow who was on a second bike behind the Dad and watch the whole thing take place.
On a more serious note: a few years back a 20 year old woman in Quebec parked her car in the LEFT HAND lane of a busy highway, got out and was helping some ducks on the shoulder of the road - and a father & daughter on a bike rear-ended her car and were both killed. She was convicted of dangerous driving causing death. Stupid bitch. She recently appealed her conviction and was denied - thank goodness.
Check it out if you're having a nice calm day and feel like getting REALLY angry. I tried to paste a linky but that appears to be beyond my capabilities this bright and sunny Sunday morning. However, simply typing "Quebec woman helping ducks..." ought to bring it up in your google search engine. Get ready to get mad....
If you watch the CTV news video - also prepare to be amazed and impressed by the calm and balanced reaction of the grieving widow who was on a second bike behind the Dad and watch the whole thing take place.
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pago cruiser
XS650 Addict
Here you go MaxPete:
http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/quebec...ks-causing-fatal-crash-loses-appeal-1.3450013
JHC.
Excerpted:
Confronted during cross-examination by the Crown, she disagreed her actions were illogical.
"At the time, it's what I decided to do," Czornobaj said. "Obviously now I would not have stopped."
WTF??? You were right. 90 days sentence, served on weekends, for actions directly resulting in the deaths of 2 people. Loss of driving privileges for 10 years. Wonder if they also took away her library card??? Unfortunately, the judge did not remove her ability to breed, so this crapthink will continue to proliferate throughout her progeny, dumbing down society in perpetuity.
It is unfortunate in our society that stupidity, even gross, negligent stupidity, is not a crime. IMO, it is time to make it so. I would like to run for King.
I promise to (mostly) be a benevolent dictator, much like Tito of Yugoslavia. But there will prolly be a lot of dead assholes and idiots...
Fascinating bit of history, taken from historical records: After Stalin had tried 5 times to assassinate Tito.
All of them were caught and were executed. A clearly pissed off Tito then sent a message to Stalin,
Stop sending people to kill me. We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle. (...) If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send one to Moscow, and I won't have to send a second.
Stalin never sent any more and the relationship remained frozen until Stalin's death.
Now back to our regularly scheduled cager rant...
http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/quebec...ks-causing-fatal-crash-loses-appeal-1.3450013
JHC.
Excerpted:
Confronted during cross-examination by the Crown, she disagreed her actions were illogical.
"At the time, it's what I decided to do," Czornobaj said. "Obviously now I would not have stopped."
WTF??? You were right. 90 days sentence, served on weekends, for actions directly resulting in the deaths of 2 people. Loss of driving privileges for 10 years. Wonder if they also took away her library card??? Unfortunately, the judge did not remove her ability to breed, so this crapthink will continue to proliferate throughout her progeny, dumbing down society in perpetuity.
It is unfortunate in our society that stupidity, even gross, negligent stupidity, is not a crime. IMO, it is time to make it so. I would like to run for King.
I promise to (mostly) be a benevolent dictator, much like Tito of Yugoslavia. But there will prolly be a lot of dead assholes and idiots...
Fascinating bit of history, taken from historical records: After Stalin had tried 5 times to assassinate Tito.
All of them were caught and were executed. A clearly pissed off Tito then sent a message to Stalin,
Stop sending people to kill me. We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle. (...) If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send one to Moscow, and I won't have to send a second.
Stalin never sent any more and the relationship remained frozen until Stalin's death.
Now back to our regularly scheduled cager rant...
