Nearly bought it on my motorcycle yesterday.
I was riding with a buddy who rides a Harley Road King. He was out front and I was behind a good distance (thankfully).
I noticed something dropped off his bike and began bouncing. Looked like it was going into the left lane and that was good. I throttled back, and it bounced right. Not good.
The thing, later found to be a 2 lb. highway peg, bounced up, right, up again...
I braked hard and locked up my rear wheel, starting a skid. I eased off the brake, stopping the skid, then braked again.
The chrome projectile bounced 10' in front of me into the ditch.
I was ok with everything, until I realized that if that thing had hit my leg, it'd be broken, and if it'd hit my front wheel, I'd have gone down at 60 mph.
Someone was looking over my shoulder yesteday. |
