{"id":9170,"date":"2019-05-06T11:47:38","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T17:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/?p=9170"},"modified":"2019-05-05T21:48:02","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T03:48:02","slug":"flying-objects-they-just-keep-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/flying-objects-they-just-keep-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying Objects: They Just Keep Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9172\" style=\"width: 507px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/OverlandExpo2012-029-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9172\" src=\"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/OverlandExpo2012-029-2.jpg\" vspace=\"10\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/OverlandExpo2012-029-2.jpg 497w, https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/OverlandExpo2012-029-2-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9172\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong><em>Head &#8217;em up, move &#8217;em out.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Riding season is getting into full gear now so it&#8217;s good to remember that sometimes there are things coming at you on the road that you do not expect. And why should you? They&#8217;re so weird nobody would ever expect them. Here are some experiences other riders have had.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A snake and a bird. At the same time. I was cruising down a country road and a bird with a snake in his clutches flew into my path, made a quick swoop away from me and was gone. I don&#8217;t know who was shocked the most. Me, the bird or the snake. I actually had to look back a few times to reassure myself that he didn&#8217;t drop it on me.<\/li>\n<li>BIG dead possum. Didn&#8217;t see it coming (even though quite dead and stationary) I was too fixated on the car in front of me, who seemed to be under the impression that brakes must be applied at every intersection, driveway, mailbox, and manhole. So I had already backed off to about 2 car lengths in a 30 MPH residential area. The next thing I know the KLR and I are airborne, landed the unexpected jump, and went around the block to see what the ramp was made of. Big ugly dead possum.<\/li>\n<li>Caught the tail end of a cat once. We were staring at each other seconds before I thought the cat would not move and the cat thought he could beat me accross the street before I came by. We both were wrong. Think I just bumped it with my front wheel. Felt something but not like going over anything.<\/li>\n<li>Elephant in northern Thailand, near Burma. Coming out of a corner still leaning, nearly smacked into this giant grey backside half across the road.<\/li>\n<li>I charged a huge grizzly bear a long time ago on my KLX250. Usually the bears run away. This one stood its ground. I think it moved at the last minute, I was too scared to look. I bent the license plate hitting a bump way too hard. I was too scared to get off and fix it.<\/li>\n<li>A swarm of (I believe they are called&#8230;) blind mosquitoes in FL. It was so thick that I had to pull over afterwards because my visor was completely blacked out&#8230;100% blacked out.<\/li>\n<li>I saw a dozen bikes crash on one corner was a swarm of locusts crossing the road on the second sweepback of a fast, fast technical section. Huge grasshoppers that do not fly. They crawl. There was a mass migration on Lake Lowery Road one morning. A group ride of Buellers was smokin&#8217; along and when they hit the swarm, down they went.<\/li>\n<li>A coupla days ago I was on I-78 at the start of evening rush hour; thickening traffic but moving along OK. Saw a car ahead swerve slightly, then noticed what I thought at first was a piece of fruit or something, lying in the road. Or was it an animal? Bright green&#8230; a lizard? No&#8230; Then I saw another, of a totally different but equally bright color. As I passed the first two, I saw at least a dozen more, scattered across a few hundred feet of highway. What were they? Beanie Babies.<\/li>\n<li>Some drunk on the wrong side of the road in a long curved tunnel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>OK, that&#8217;s it for now. This could be you next time. Ride like your life depends on it, because it does.<\/p>\n<h3>Biker Quote for Today<\/h3>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed. &#8212; Vin Diesel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riding season is getting into full gear now so it&#8217;s good to remember that sometimes there are things coming at you on the road that you do not expect. And why should you? They&#8217;re so weird nobody would ever expect them. Here are some experiences other riders have had. A snake and a bird. 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