Author Topic: Where's a camera when you need one?  (Read 1700 times)

Offline Maniac

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Where's a camera when you need one?
« on: October 24, 2005, 11:46:24 PM »
It never fails, something I need to get a picture of, and the camera isn't anywhere nearby...

As some of you may know (if you read the location info), I live in Florida. In fact, just north of Daytona beach. There was this little thing down south of us today called a Hurricane. Well, up here it wasn't so bad, just a lot of rain and some 50mph wind gusts. Only a few branches down, no biggie.

Anyway, I had to head to work this morning at 7:30, which is just about peak storm time. Not a lot of people on the road, which was probally a good thing, since it was raining pretty good. Almost to work when something I never thought I'd see happens...

An old guy on a Harley pulls out in front of me, and takes off down the road. I ended up following the guy, who's not wearing a helmet, for probally a mile and a half. In that time frame, he was blown into the oncoming lane four times, and ran through a section of road that was flooded a foot and a half deep, which he hit at about 35mph and somehow managed to keep going.

Dumbass! You don't ride a motorcycle in a HURRICANE  :duh:

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Offline cb400bill

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Where's a camera when you need one?
« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2005, 08:26:43 PM »
Unless it is an 89 CBR600.   :grin:

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Where's a camera when you need one?
« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2005, 10:46:21 PM »
Heh. One of my friends had an '87, that was a beast of a bike and the rod-knock was very unnerving...

Anyway, you can ride -on- the hurricane, but not -in- the hurricane.  :grin:

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