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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?

 

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A plastic bag was the first thing that came to my mind but I did have a mattress and a box spring come loose out of the back of a truck two cars in front of me, the oh s**t factor was high! Thanks for the input, realizing their is no equation, curious how other people reacted though. Its what happens when it is snowing and you sit inside thinking about riding to much...

 

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I was in a long line of cars moving through a traffic coned lane a couple of weeks ago. A lowered Honda Civic unexplicably darted to the right & center punched one of the cones before jumping back into our lane. <snip> still wonder WTF did he move out and hit the cone in the first place?

I was a teenager once, still wonder WTF I was thinking/doing. Or maybe he just dropped his smoke and had to find it.

 

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And I think there should be a special, inner circle of Hell for morons who tie a mattress to their car roof with twine!

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I want to vote in the guy with the x-mas tree on top of his car and his hand hanging out the sun roof holding it on...

 

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I was heading up to San Francisco recently, in the sort of fast but heavy traffic we have around here, when I saw up ahead an odd white cloud and cars braking and swerving. Turned out to be a slab of wallboard in the process of being powdered by all the cars and trucks that were opting to drive over rather than swerve. Suddenly I'm riding over plaster chunks and dust, and the stuff is swirling in my helmet, eyes, nose, mouth. I can't see, I can't breathe, no where to go except forwards.... That was bad. As soon as I got through it I opened up my visor at about 65mph and was turning my head side to side to try to blow it out. No, I was not paying much attention to my riding at that moment.

Made it OK, makes for a good story, but I'm just stupid lucky some car didn't run me off the road in all the excitement, or that I didn't run myself off the road, or skid out on the stuff on the road. whew.

Perfect example...

Done again what would you have done different to avoid the whole situation?