Whats around the corner?

[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

We've all come around a bend and had to slam the anchors on.

So what kind of things have you come across and lived to tell the tale?

I was travelling down this lane approaching a left hander that is hidden in a dip, i know the road so i'm careful of the field entrance.
Soon as i drop into the left hander i spy the BT man & van..then Bamm ! I've got a telephone wire trapped under my mudgard and acting like a cheesewire. I managed to stay on the bike but had stopped mid corner. Was well shaken..Got off and asked the bloke where his worksigns were, he was fiddling with a connector and hadn't even retreived the snapped cable...he mumbled something about 'just about to do that...' but summat just said enough of this crap and i knocked him one. Left him sparko on the floor with 2 cars looking on
In hindsight i regret belting him, but what a goon !

Pat
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[ish765]

I bet he wasn’t expecting that. Understandable though. I dont have any good ones to tell.

Love the picture though
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[OssY]

I had a savagely close off going through the back roads in Horsley, Surrey. Nice summer night just cruising around start to hit some nice twisties when from nowhere DEER I grabbed the brake my arse grabbed the seat, then i enjoyed a couple of minutes of shaking on the side of the road before retiring for the night..

[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

@ LukeVFR..bloody hell..you lucky sod >Phew

Pat
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[Acemastr]

Wouldn't say i had to slam the anchors on... but there were some fuck off big pot holes in the apex of a corner on our ride out today, Carl had already told me about them but they were hidden like a bitch and we'd definitely have come off had we hit them. Amazing road though.
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[hmmmnz]

i hit a deer when in scotland,
infact 3 deer on 3 different ocassions, 2 in my work van, and 1 on the bike, just about hit a fox, loads of rabbits (do you guys not go out spotlighting and kill the fuckers?? rabbits are everywhere in scotland)
i clipped the back of a rubbish truck reversing out of a driveway,
got forced off the road by a forgetfull bus driver,
nearly got air into the back of a car when it decided to stop dead, on a road with blind summits,
close calls are an every day occurance
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[bikedemon99]

came round a corner one night and ran over a cat, is was horrible, front wheel and I turned round to see if it was helpable and when I got next to it, it jumped up with its back leg back-to-front sticking up in the air and it shot off under a parked car and its sticking up leg clattered the sil of the car, orr didnt feel good
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[krebsy]

[pyx_e]

https://i361.photobucket.com/albums/oo60/pyx_e/oldbiddy1.jpg


yes I know it was my fault but did she HAVE to stop?
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[Finglonga]

Thread should be re-named " The poor obs thread ".
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[Tristan.]

On twisties I know quite well there's a long left hand sweeper, which tightens up as you go round. Visability of the rest of the corner isn;t great but you come onto it from a bit of a straight, so if you know the road, you'll know if a car went into it before you.

Also halfway round it becomes shaded, which wasn;t a big issue in february, cos all the roads gonna be fairly chilly anyway, but it did add up to me not spotting the inch or so of thick gravel and mud coating the tarmack just inside the shaded bit, hit this at a reasabable pace and immediatly the front wheel skipped right twice.
I'd like to think that I made a concious decision that any input I attempted would probably fuck it up even more, but I probably just happened to do the right thing by luck, relaxed my grip and slowly stopped hanging off, running wider than I aimed too but putting a bit more weight onto the tyres.

Back onto the smooth stuff and I rode at car pace for a few minutes The feeling of having both wheels jumping to the side but not getting spat off or lowsiding is very very strange indeed.

Anyway, funny part of the story, on the way down we where looking for a friend who'd got lost, therefore going at 40 odd, on this corner where I was very lucky not to lowside it turns out that the runoff on the right hand side of the road consists of a pretty much sheer 60 foot drop, with a solid wall of trees at the bottom.

I'll be taking it a bit easier there in future.

[the grim reaper]

Came round a corner in Cornwall, in the back lanes near my Mum's on my 125 (many years ago), to be faced with a dining room table, upright in the middle of the road. I was crawling, as I know the lanes too well and how dodgy they are, and was easily able to avoid it.

I then saw, in quick succession, two fat blokes legging it down the road towards the table and a flat bed truck, piled high with furniture. The idiots hadn't tied any of it down.

Cheers

Grim
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[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

[MarkJ]

[njd27]

[Serendipity]

A few years ago I was fighting my way out of London along Pentonville -> Euston -> Marylebone Roads when I finally made it to the Westway flyover. The bike was seriously overheating from all the filtering so I used my discretion in terms of the speed limit and began “making progress” along the flyover, keen to get some cooling breezes flowing.

I was well ahead of the rest of the traffic when I got to a gentle left curve in the road that leads into a gentle right curve. As the road opened up from the right hand my peripheral vision picked up something in the road…

… a ladder…

…one of the big, multi section aluminium jobbies, right across both lanes.

Lots of brakes, a little more lean and a huge load of luck got me past with millimetres to spare. There’s not much hard shoulder to speak of and I thought I was definitely going to hit the thing.
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[bikedemon99]

Couple more I remember, once I was riding down the bypass about 50mph, a box van in front and on the road ahead is a big polly tube the type of thing rolls of carpet come in, as the van went over it it lifted with the draft and yep it settles right across my open face helmet , I couldnt see a thing wearing this 15ft scarf that I quicky grabbed off, it must have looked so funny to other drivers though I wasnt laughing, other one a low flying seagul flew straight in to my face, good job my visor was down, nothing to do with round the corner but I wanted to tell you's anyway.
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[tafflade]

riding though a back lane on a KTM enduro bike I was having fun buggering about trying to slide the back end on the gravel and crap in the middle of the road when I met head on a combine harvester type thing with lots of big huge spikey thing on the front going the whole width of the road. There was no way I was going to stop in time and there was nowhere for him to go so I had little choice but to head for the ditch at the side if the road.

It absolutely stank and digging the bike out of there was a hell of a task as the bloody farmer just shook his head and drove off!!

[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

[c_dug]

[Reevo8]

In the summer I was on my way to work, quite a flowing chicane, right then left. It is a 50mph zone, and the road is nice and smooth, but there are hedges on both sides. I came round the right at 65, got to 75 and cameround the left hander to see....

A bin lorry with two cars waiting to pass(pretty much on the apex) and a car on the other carraigeway. I was lucky , I managed to brake and miss the approaching car as I passed the two cars which were about to pass the bin lorry, and hit the grassy mound and big pile of gravel, somehow I kept it. My heart was racing, I checked the speedo, and I was still doing 50mph. Lucky day!
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[njd27]

[Reevo8]

[ToGGoT]

[Jrod]

In the car, a deer at about 70. There was no chance of avoiding....
https://img413.imageshack.us/img413/7752/deer009.jpg
Luckily it kind of just got fired off so the damage wasn't bad to be honest (indicator, headlight and bumper.)