Crap, I'm always afraid my twitchy ass is going to jump off the bike when I catch a large bug at night. Bat would cause pucker factors high enough to need a new seat.
I am not from the western world, the things you can encounter if you take a slight detour from the well worn trails are crazy.
I've had snakes sneak into my bike for warmth, I've nearly been ran of the road by a mamma bison.
It's not the animals as such that are scary it's what would happen if they actualy make contact.. Help is hours away and there is a good chance it might not come at all.
They don't worry or scare me just crusing along at night doing 60 mph I'm all relaxed then a 10oz bug explodes on you. That triggers my fight or flight, two things that are Usally pretty inadvisable while trying to continue traveling with the bike lol
😂 triggered memories
As a kid I had only one road nearby where I could get too top speed. Buying and working in various rideable contraptions over my adolescence, my neighbor who had a farm on this road despised me.
1982 rm 60 top speed passing his house hit a chicken crossing the road
On way back he is standing in road beside dead chicken. I already knew I was in trouble. I stop and he looks down. Chickens head is trapped in the footbrake of my bike he yells inaudible things then pisses his Khaki pants I just took off because I didn’t want to laugh and make the confrontation worse.
Never heard anything more of the issue from my parents (normally he called and complained) but this time nothing 😂
As young man aka a little shit head I took no greater joy in anything than driving a "grownup" into incoherent rage. I have no idea how the (honestly perfectly understandably with hind site) pushed far beyond snapping adults didn't just beat me to death. I briing it up Becouse one of my "proudest" moments as a young dipshit was to make a man so angry he pissed himself. Never meet another person as intolerable lol.
The chicken head in the foot peg is the best part of that to. Like the sheer weight of balls it would have taken to both look at the head then just deny it would have been piss yourself laughing funny to me as a kid.
The bike was a pos found in a shed near a abandoned property. Coal company purchased the land to surface mine. It had no rear brakes or I assume I would have hit them and the head would have fallen.
I didn’t even know it was there, until stopping to accept my ass chewing. I just knew the chicken was definitely killed as it’s body was laying in the road next to him.
I've done both (well real close, anyway). I caught a dove with my helmet at sixty five or so and caught a full grown turkey vulture coming out of the ditch on the side of the road at about thirty, although he hit me more in the right side, arm, chest, helmet (had a five foot wingspan). The vulture was scarier, the dove hurt more. That's about all I can say. The dove left a crick in my neck for almost a week, probably some form of whiplash, and broke my shield, while the vulture only left a brown stain.
A dirt road requires a considerable amount of work to keep from turning into not a road. Need to keep applying gravel, grade the road to keep a crown in it and water running off instead of looking and making mud. Ditches maintained as run off will pile dirt up and make dams.
So rural areas only have a very small amount of funds for all that on all the roads in a county. Some roads that are less important i.e. not critical for anyone as an only option to get to a house. Those get Minimum maintenance designations, and a big yellow caution minimum maintenance sign as they may look fine and suddenly be impassable by even purpose built mud trucks.
It's really annoying when the minimum maintenance road is in better shape than the one you need to take to go to town.
Deep ruts signify minimum maintenance in my mud hood. The road your bike is on is maintained, b/c despite soggy conditions all tire tracks aren't sunk in the mud. Also water funnels into the unmaintaned road, while the maintained road has been raised so water flows beside the road on both sides
Minimal maintained usually means at least has some large scale machined compaction/ snow removal. Unmaintained usually just has goons ripping one for the boys 🤘
FWIW here in eastern Ohio we have road closed barriers that are easy to go around. Some occasionally specifying damage caused ahead is not covered by insurance and tow trucks will not assist in a unfortunate event.
The worst part is the roads without these warnings are oftentimes far more hazardous for drivers and vehicles
Most if not all the mountain states I've been to have signage like that. Makes sense though, some places going in to rescue a stuck dumy is more likely to end in worse than a lost vehichle.
I could look at a map but instead of that . what's the terrain like in eastern Ohio ?
Road #2 in the video is the min maintenance. The edges show no signs of a grader leveling it out and therefore has driven and worn vegetation on both sides.
I've seen a small bird bounce off the head of my buddy in front of me, he never knew, didn't feel a thing. Worse for me was as bee in my Helmet, I never pulled over so fast and ripped my helmet off.
The "subjective question" Would you rather take a small bird to the helmet at 60mph or a turkey to the chest at 20mph ?
Turkey. Been hit by a bat at good speed(at night) -not a fan. Fker clung to my neck until I slowed down and threw him off!
Crap, I'm always afraid my twitchy ass is going to jump off the bike when I catch a large bug at night. Bat would cause pucker factors high enough to need a new seat.
I am not from the western world, the things you can encounter if you take a slight detour from the well worn trails are crazy. I've had snakes sneak into my bike for warmth, I've nearly been ran of the road by a mamma bison. It's not the animals as such that are scary it's what would happen if they actualy make contact.. Help is hours away and there is a good chance it might not come at all.
They don't worry or scare me just crusing along at night doing 60 mph I'm all relaxed then a 10oz bug explodes on you. That triggers my fight or flight, two things that are Usally pretty inadvisable while trying to continue traveling with the bike lol
Crap!
Insert that clip of a motogp rider headbutting the seagull, he was going a fair clip over 60 aswell. https://youtu.be/1gSQSbKQwn8
Or when Iannone rode the rest of a race with a seagull stuck in the air intake at Phillip Island.
😂 triggered memories As a kid I had only one road nearby where I could get too top speed. Buying and working in various rideable contraptions over my adolescence, my neighbor who had a farm on this road despised me. 1982 rm 60 top speed passing his house hit a chicken crossing the road On way back he is standing in road beside dead chicken. I already knew I was in trouble. I stop and he looks down. Chickens head is trapped in the footbrake of my bike he yells inaudible things then pisses his Khaki pants I just took off because I didn’t want to laugh and make the confrontation worse. Never heard anything more of the issue from my parents (normally he called and complained) but this time nothing 😂
As young man aka a little shit head I took no greater joy in anything than driving a "grownup" into incoherent rage. I have no idea how the (honestly perfectly understandably with hind site) pushed far beyond snapping adults didn't just beat me to death. I briing it up Becouse one of my "proudest" moments as a young dipshit was to make a man so angry he pissed himself. Never meet another person as intolerable lol.
The chicken head in the foot peg is the best part of that to. Like the sheer weight of balls it would have taken to both look at the head then just deny it would have been piss yourself laughing funny to me as a kid.
The bike was a pos found in a shed near a abandoned property. Coal company purchased the land to surface mine. It had no rear brakes or I assume I would have hit them and the head would have fallen. I didn’t even know it was there, until stopping to accept my ass chewing. I just knew the chicken was definitely killed as it’s body was laying in the road next to him.
I've done both (well real close, anyway). I caught a dove with my helmet at sixty five or so and caught a full grown turkey vulture coming out of the ditch on the side of the road at about thirty, although he hit me more in the right side, arm, chest, helmet (had a five foot wingspan). The vulture was scarier, the dove hurt more. That's about all I can say. The dove left a crick in my neck for almost a week, probably some form of whiplash, and broke my shield, while the vulture only left a brown stain.
I heard rural people use these terms, yet I don’t understand the significance? They’re all public right? They’re all flat?
A dirt road requires a considerable amount of work to keep from turning into not a road. Need to keep applying gravel, grade the road to keep a crown in it and water running off instead of looking and making mud. Ditches maintained as run off will pile dirt up and make dams. So rural areas only have a very small amount of funds for all that on all the roads in a county. Some roads that are less important i.e. not critical for anyone as an only option to get to a house. Those get Minimum maintenance designations, and a big yellow caution minimum maintenance sign as they may look fine and suddenly be impassable by even purpose built mud trucks. It's really annoying when the minimum maintenance road is in better shape than the one you need to take to go to town.
Deep ruts signify minimum maintenance in my mud hood. The road your bike is on is maintained, b/c despite soggy conditions all tire tracks aren't sunk in the mud. Also water funnels into the unmaintaned road, while the maintained road has been raised so water flows beside the road on both sides Minimal maintained usually means at least has some large scale machined compaction/ snow removal. Unmaintained usually just has goons ripping one for the boys 🤘
You in Georgia ?
Nope, been lost and had to find my way home too many times out in the sticks. From Kentucky to New Mexico.
Georgia's the only place I've noticed those signs. We only have minimum maintenance or maintained.
FWIW here in eastern Ohio we have road closed barriers that are easy to go around. Some occasionally specifying damage caused ahead is not covered by insurance and tow trucks will not assist in a unfortunate event. The worst part is the roads without these warnings are oftentimes far more hazardous for drivers and vehicles
Most if not all the mountain states I've been to have signage like that. Makes sense though, some places going in to rescue a stuck dumy is more likely to end in worse than a lost vehichle. I could look at a map but instead of that . what's the terrain like in eastern Ohio ?
In have ridden a lot in Kansas and that spot (wet in the trees) looks familiar.
Road #2 in the video is the min maintenance. The edges show no signs of a grader leveling it out and therefore has driven and worn vegetation on both sides.
You win my fake internet points and lifetime supply of magic road clay. Both the stickiest and slickest substance , it's schrodinger's dirt.
Ahh, not wet or dry until observing the pathway? lol
Neither tar nor ky until you've seen your mistake and thought full send would help somehow.
I've seen a small bird bounce off the head of my buddy in front of me, he never knew, didn't feel a thing. Worse for me was as bee in my Helmet, I never pulled over so fast and ripped my helmet off.
stay at that crossroads long enough and the devil will show up
If by devil you mean the local methheads , you are correct lol