Whats the strangest thing you've ran over??

[Full Throttle]

So today on my way to work i was thinking to myself it would really suck if this car in front of me ran over like a piece of a tire or something and i hit it and wrecked. You know the usual if this happened now i would die thoughts you have while ridding. Well about a min later the car in front of me ran over, not a tire but a flipping huge ass broom. The thing was right in front of me and i had no choice but to just run it over since i was on the HWY. I was practically airborne for a sec when i hit that damn thing. It made me think that im never going to think of bad thoughts while ridding again.

[Riceaholic]

I had a 15 foot aluminum ladder fly off a truck in front of me. Thankfully it landed flat and I had time to get front wheel off the ground and I kind of motox'd over it (on my GSXR:lol:)

I hit it hard enough to bend my back wheel. It kicked up and smashed the grill and headlight of the guy's sweet dually that was behind me. He was definitely not pleased but was more amazed at my supercross skills on my gixxer. (honestly not nearly as amazed as I was)

[thirdgenlxi]

I had to run over fallen tree one time.... I was on my way to work a few months ago going over the mountain on Old Fort Rd. Come around a corner and there's an entire tree laying across the road. Kinda ironic, right as I was coming up to it, there was a guy on a GSX-R coming the other way that was in the same spot I was..... figuring out how to get over the tree. Luckily the tree was tapered and the thinner part was laying across my lane, so I pull over to the right and stop, and he comes over in my lane and runs over the tree first, then I ran over it (bump - bump). Luckily it was a low speed thing

They had it cleaned up by the time I went home from work, but you can see what was left of the tree off to the left. It was across the entire road earlier, branches and all

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Other things I've ran over or almost/did hit

-Hit a plastic lawn chair with my foot on the highway, didn't feel good
-Almost hit a small BBQ grill on my way down to Miami
-Hit a medium sized dog with my foot at about 40 mph (stupid dog ran out in front of me every damn day)
-Hit a large dog that was already dead, about size of a grown german shepherd. I was doing about 70 mph, front of bike went airborn when I hit, and my buddy behind me said it was absolutely disgusting, lol
-Almost hit a little tiny dog that ran out in the road
-Almost hit a bunch of metal folding chairs that fell off a trailer in front of me... had to do the slalom through the scattered chairs, hahah

Been hit in the head (helmet) with a few cardboard boxes too

[Adeptus_Minor]

I ran over a pallet... a full size shipping pallet...
It was lying there in the middle of the road, and I was half asleep driving back to Nacogdoches after a day in Tyler.
Luckily the truck I was driving at the time surmounted it just fine, but it scared the hell out of me.
:lol:

[Full Throttle]

I had a 15 foot aluminum ladder fly off a truck in front of me. Thankfully it landed flat and I had time to get front wheel off the ground and I kind of motox'd over it (on my GSXR:lol:)

I hit it hard enough to bend my back wheel. It kicked up and smashed the grill and headlight of the guy's sweet dually that was behind me. He was definitely not pleased but was more amazed at my supercross skills on my gixxer. (honestly not nearly as amazed as I was)

Thats pretty crazy lol.
I've had the Ladder thing happen to me before but it landed sideways well kind of crooked and i had to merge between 2 cars to get to the shoulder before i hit it or got hit trying to stop.

Has anyone been hit by a bird? My friend Adam and i were riding and he took one to the helmet an just a few mins later once he decided to head hime one hit my windscreen and then hit my helmet. Crazy kind of a day.

[t-homo]

I hit an opossum with my right peg one night we went on a ride. broke the bolt that holds the peg to the rearset/bracket.

[azoomm]

Has anyone been hit by a bird? My friend Adam and i were riding and he took one to the helmet an just a few mins later once he decided to head hime one hit my windscreen and then hit my helmet. Crazy kind of a day.

I hit birds all the time. The Turkey vulture was the worst.

[Mikey]

I've been hit by doves twice.

The craziest thing was a mattress. Pretty sure it was a queen. On the highway, 70mph, and not experienced enough yet to keep escape routes open. Just stood up on the pegs a little and went over it like I would have on my dirtbike. Got over it just fine, but scared the shit out of me and taught me something.

[Cutty72]

Greater Canadian Goose. Took it to the right foot/peg. Fucker decided he wanted to go back the other way at the last min. Not sure how he faired, but my foot hurt.

[HurricaneHeather]

I've had a car's gas cap fly at me before. Hit me straight in the leg. It was just bizarre as hell. :lol:

[Dave]

i ran over a fat south philly rat once

[Mr Lefty]

Lol can't wait for OSP to chime in... with his Decoy story


mine isn't really a run over but more a run into... I've hit a bird with my shoulder... dunno what kind it flew in Kamikaze style and hit my right shoulder and went flipping through the air.

[TYEster]

A standard size plastic trash can fell off the back of an overloaded truckbed...

And if you can call it strange, I ran over my best friend at the time on a MX track. We were "racing" and he jumped ahead only to throw it away and he fell in front of me, bike off to the side while I was all mid-air. Had to land where I had to land... No injuries sustained at least.

[Gas Man]

A 5 gallon metal gas can full of gas. My bud on his chopper drilled it with his front peg, busting it open and sent it spinning towards me. All while in a corner at 11pm in the middle of no where.

Well so there is this spinning leaking metal gas can heading right for me. I have another rider behind me. The can passes between my front tire and the front of the frame and I smoke it with my right floor board. It splashes my right leg with gas and flings into the ditch.

Whew....

[Rangerscott]

A 5 gallon metal gas can full of gas. My bud on his chopper drilled it with his front peg, busting it open and sent it spinning towards me. All while in a corner at 11pm in the middle of no where.

Well so there is this spinning leaking metal gas can heading right for me. I have another rider behind me. The can passes between my front tire and the front of the frame and I smoke it with my right floor board. It splashes my right leg with gas and flings into the ditch.

Whew....

Hell. I would have scraped a peg just to see the blaze.


A week ago I ran over a still juicy animal. Luckily no nasty left overs on the bike.

I had a 4x8 plywood fly up in the air after my brother ran over it in his truck. If I hadnt ducked my head, i probably wouldnt be here.

[Dave]

im really surprised no one said tater's whore of an ex wife

[Rangerscott]

im really surprised no one said tater's whore of an ex wife

She's too big. She has no incline angle so it would be like hitting a wall.

[Dave]

She's too big. She has no incline angle so it would be like hitting a wall.

Sounds like a sweet jump

[azoomm]

Just like that, another bird today while leading a demo. The RTP barely had anything on it, guy behind me freaked out

['73 H1 Triple]

That sounds like the squirrel I almost got. I was coming home from work on a nice twisty road when a squirrel ran out. I wasn't trying to hit it but wasn't going to crash avoiding it.

It ran from the right side of the road and I left my left boot toe hit it's tail. It continued on it's way to the other side of the road.


I've hit numerous birds ( I really like my armored gear ) and some really nasty bugs. I remember one time I had just flipped down my visor when I hit a big ass bug that splattered all over my visor.

When I was young, dumb and "squidly", I was riding in a loose fitting tank top. I was doing about 70 mph when I rear ended a wasp in my left nipple. To say that hurt would be a gross understatement.

I locked up both tires and ripped what was left of the back end of the wasp out. I had a hollow spot there for a month.

Back when I was in my early teens, I was over at the neighbors and we were taking turns on his Yamaha 100 dirt bike going around the corn field.

He took extra long the one lap and when he came back, he was all dirty and scratched up from crashing. Turns out as he was going down next to the field, a groundhog ran out and started down the trail. He got the brilliant idea to run it over. Only problem was the front wheel "washed" out to the side as he ran it over and he crashed hard :lol:

[Full Throttle]

I almost hit a Stroller yesterday. It was the big one that the car seat attaches to and it was folded up in the middle of the road. I took a split second survey of my surroundings and merged into the lane next to me. The car behind me wasnt so lucky. It was a like a big Lincoln town car or something. The car drilled it. The stroller exploded upon impact but got lodged under the car. They pulled over immediately.

[101lifts2]

4X4 on the double yellows around a curve while splitting lanes at 90mph. Bent the front rim on my then ZX9r. If I were riding my EX500 I would have went down.

[wildchild]

I've hit a racoon and a goose before. The weirdest/funniest thing I've hit, was coming back from a bike rally. girlfriend towed her bike. she was in the lead for a while and i kept getting hit by pieces of rubber flying. got her pulled over and asked her to stop hitting pieces of tire left by semi's. they were hitting me in the head and body and it was starting to suck. she said she hadn't hit anything. went and looked at the trailer tires and yeah I was being hit by my own tires peeling off. had to stop and throw on two new shoes. luckily a shop nearby had three of. two for trailer and a spare just in case.

[the chi]

I hit birds all the time. The Turkey vulture was the worst.

Did he barf on you?

I've hit branches and wood and random debris in the road, with the occasional juicy bit of roadkill, but chewing gum was the worst. I still dont think I got it all out of my footpeg, tho I did get it off the chain and chain guard. Worst thing was hitting a bee, with my jacket open, while wearing a tank top. Hurt like crazy.

I'm considering getting a camera to mount on my bike, every time I go out with the hubby and the Father in Law, I swear its like Hitchcock's The Birds. They must have some magnetic draw, because everytime I ride with either of them, they get divebombed by kamikaze birds.

[Trip]

Cardboard movie standee, those things you see at the movie theater advertising upcoming movie releases.

[KSGregman]

A piece of firewood....maybe 3 or 4 inches in diameter...at 70 mph on my morning commute to work. 3 lane highway....lots of congestion...I couldn't see too far in front of me because of the bumper to bumper traffic....all of the sudden...BANG...rode right over the top of it on my GSX-R750. Other than scaring the shit out of me, no harm was done. Tires and rims both survived the impact with no worries. My underwear were definitely a casualty, though. :lol:

[shmike]

A 6'3" black dude.

[OneSickPsycho]

Bag full of decoy geese... EAT IT!

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[askmrjesus]

Why did that chubby chick throw her geese at you?

And who's the moron in the red hat?

So many questions...

JC

[OneSickPsycho]

Why did that chubby chick throw her geese at you?

And who's the moron in the red hat?

So many questions...

JC

The Cliff Notes...

Drewpy and I were on our way back from Canada, met the chunky chick in stopped traffic just inside the Ohio border and it turns out that she was going to Columbus as well. She followed us as we kept a ~90mph pace in and out of traffic (quite squidly). Somewhere along the way it was Drewpy in front, me in the middle, and her VERY close behind me (like 10 feet)...

The green military like duffle bag flew out of the back of a truck, bounced off traffic in front of us, and narrowly missed Drewpy... I had a choice either to go off-roading in the median or swerve under a semi... I chose to brake hard and square up on the bag - BOOM! - locked up the rear for a second, then was able to limp off to the side of the road. Found out at that point that the chick said she got so close when I hammered the brakes that she ended up inches off my back tire.

The douchebag in the hat who was all smiles... yeah, he was the douchebag that failed to secure a 10lb bag of shit in the back of his truck yet was still crusing at 80+ in the fast lane.

[DLIT]

A snake.

[Full Throttle]

Bag full of decoy geese... EAT IT!

Wow that flipping crazy.

[Rangerscott]

I had a bee/wasp hit my neck. Didn't hurt at first, but finally started to feel as if someone was pushing on my neck. I decided to go home just in case my throat started to close up on me.

[askmrjesus]

I had a bee/wasp hit my neck. Didn't hurt at first, but finally started to feel as if someone was pushing on my neck. I decided to go home just in case my throat started to close up on me.

I rode through a swarm of gnats once.

There must have been 130 of them.

At least.

JC

[OneSickPsycho]

I had a bee/wasp hit my neck. Didn't hurt at first, but finally started to feel as if someone was pushing on my neck. I decided to go home just in case my throat started to close up on me.

I had a yellow jacket hit my chest and fall down between my inner thigh and the bike... stung me uncomfortably close to a very sensitive area.

[Rangerscott]

My dad got stung multiple times in the shaft-n-balls by a scorpion.

[askmrjesus]

My dad got stung multiple times in the shaft-n-balls by a scorpion.

That's what he gets for trying to fuck his helmet.

JC