[Neikos]

Anybody have any tips on avoiding the, for lack of better terms, drunken flying crap. Like a plastic bag that keeps getting tossed by the wind from passing vehicles, how do you calculate where it will land as you pass? My tactic has been to continue on and react as I pass. Any thoughts?

This ain't the matrix. Random is the perfect word for plastic bag-like debris, there is no algabraic formula for the predetermination of the next shift in real space. That being said I've learned that bigger debris like boxes, trash cans (yes a large plastic trash can) and stuff tend to do the following - With almost any vehicle passing it will A) be drawn towards the vehicle as it passes B) it will be pushed away from the vehicle in the draft. The larger the vehicle the greater the shift in location. B escalates as each car passes and/or with air movement. Such that a box can traverse three lanes of highway at a very quick pace.

I do what my daddy used to tell me to do when someone elses car lost traction in the snow - aim for it and hopefully it will be out of your way when you get there.

I like what the others said about maintaining your line for the objects though. Oh and yes, people will do the stupidist things to avoid harmless stuff - they'e the biggest danger.

 

[Neikos]

I've taken 2 small birds off the shoulder. One at ~75MPH. FNA Bubba does that hurt. Oh, and BTW . . . almost took me off the bike! Well, by flinch was likely the culprit but still! My arm/hand was numb for the rest of the ride.

The guy behind me took the now-dead bird off the helmet when it bounced off me. Can't imagine that was any fun either!