Motorcycle + Dead Skunk = Ewwwww
Ok, first it wasn't me but...
Riding the other day I came up on this other bike as we neared my stopping point. I knew we had a dead critter, a skunk, by the side of the road that the town road crews had been ignoring for a couple days but knew it was off to the side. Or at least that's were it was when I last saw it.
So we come around the turn, there's a car in front of us and other bike is not keeping the best of following distances. I see the car make a slight correction to the center of the road and so I slow down. Just about the same time a black mass of fur appear from under the car and right in the path of the other bike. He tried to avoid it but didn't have the distance and time to do so. He didn't dump the bike but the odor I went through and new location of the carcass left me little doubt that he hit it.
Needless to say he got a real good lesson on why you don't ride tight to another vehicle. He was obviously pissed at himself and/or the car because as soon as he got to a straight stretch of road he passed the car, most likely red lining the tach in the two highest gears he had.
Somehow I don't think he can go fast enough to outrun the smell he picked up.
Riding the other day I came up on this other bike as we neared my stopping point. I knew we had a dead critter, a skunk, by the side of the road that the town road crews had been ignoring for a couple days but knew it was off to the side. Or at least that's were it was when I last saw it.
So we come around the turn, there's a car in front of us and other bike is not keeping the best of following distances. I see the car make a slight correction to the center of the road and so I slow down. Just about the same time a black mass of fur appear from under the car and right in the path of the other bike. He tried to avoid it but didn't have the distance and time to do so. He didn't dump the bike but the odor I went through and new location of the carcass left me little doubt that he hit it.
Needless to say he got a real good lesson on why you don't ride tight to another vehicle. He was obviously pissed at himself and/or the car because as soon as he got to a straight stretch of road he passed the car, most likely red lining the tach in the two highest gears he had.
Somehow I don't think he can go fast enough to outrun the smell he picked up.