Last year I was riding my buddy's pretty, shiny, pearl-white suzuki boulevard and had just passed behind an 18wheeler that was in the far right lane. I had moved from the middle lane to the exit lane when his left-rear tire exploded. The loudest boom human ears have ever heard as far as I'm concerned. I nearly jumped off the back of that bike. Then the chunks came, I ducked beneath the windscreen and managed to dodge all of them. All I could think about at the time was getting scuff marks on his pretty white bike. Immediately afterwards I realized just how luck I was that I wasn't on his left anymore. I have never liked riding near trucks in the first place, but now I give them an even wider birth.
-Kyle On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:38 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I used to drive trucks. The ones that follow the trucks haven't thought > about the big chunks of rubber they see one the road. Most of that rubber is > from truck tires. > The high cost running a truck has forest trucks to use recap tires. Most > of the time it works out good, but some of the tires do come apart. If you > are to close to > the back of the truck when this happens its not going to be bugs you are > eating. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gene Henry <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tue, Jan 5, 2010 3:36 am > Subject: Re: [Nighthawk Lovers] Sparks from cars............... > > My "survival" says: NEVER drive - car or motorcycle - so close behind > anything that you can't see the road ahead and what is happening there, even > if it means backing off and getting repeatedly passed, or speeeeeding up and > passing. I got to have my visibility. I see cars "drafting" behind semi > trucks oblivious to everythng. That will work 999,999 times out of a > million; but that other one time........................... > *Real*oblivion.......... I think it's interesting to see the shit other > people get > into, I just want to remain an observer....... > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Kyle Munz <[email protected]> > *To:* [email protected] > *Sent:* Monday, January 04, 2010 8:46 PM > *Subject:* Re: [Nighthawk Lovers] Sparks from cars............... > > I'll tell ya what it has to do with motorcycles. A starter motor to the > face at 60mph will leave a mark. To avoid catching one you should never ride > behind vans, especially sparking ones. Thanks for the PSA. > > -Kyle > > > On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Gene Henry <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I don't know what all this has to do with motorcycles, but............ >> >> I was in the lane to the left and slightly behind a van several years ago, >> and a shower of sparks started to come out from under it..... >> intermittently,.... but lots of them, for a mile or so. I could see >> something bouncing and banging. And then............... out from under >> comes the starter motor! I always wondered how he explained the missing >> starter after he got where he was going and turned the engne >> off............ >> and then tried to start it! I wouldn't believe his story, even though I >> saw it!!! >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "sfox618" <[email protected]> >> To: "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 12:51 PM >> Subject: [Nighthawk Lovers] Re: Ever see one of these? >> >> >> My first car was a 1966 Chevy II - basically a 4 door Nova they just >> called it a Chevy II because Nova's only had 2 doors at the time.... >> >> I was driving up I5 from the San Francisco Bay to Sacramento one night >> and a really load scraping sound started with a huge amount of sparks >> flying out the back. I pulled over and the exhaust was on the >> ground. No wonder the car was so load and was hard to start….. I had >> wire hanger in the back and used it to get the exhaust pipe off the >> ground. I pulled off at the next exit and found a gas station with an >> old guy working - it was at least 9pm. I told him my story and he >> just laughed but told me to pull the car into the bay. Long story >> short he used a coffee can and duct tape to “fix” the exhaust pipe. >> It was still like that 2 years later when I sold the car for $300 – >> which is what I paid for it. Great times and memories in that car – >> perfect for a college kid. >> >> Sean >> >> On Jan 2, 2:41 pm, [email protected] wrote: >> > http://york.craigslist.org/mcy/1530297210.html >> >> -- >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<nighthawk_lovers%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en. >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<nighthawk_lovers%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en. >> >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<nighthawk_lovers%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en. > >--
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