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While riding to work yesterday morning I saw road kill in the street. I easily avoided the body but there were guts everywhere. Of course I got splattered a bit and of course it was a skunk. Thankfully I had my ski pants on. Took them off outside and left them hanging on the bike. To add more fun 10 minutes after the skunking I was on the highway and a truck lost a couple of tires. Nice cloud of smoke, rubber and cages all over the place.
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left them hanging on the bike
So after the highway thing, did you leave your skivvies out there too? 
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Whenever I see a blown retread on the side (or in the middle) of the road, I shudder...I'd hate to be behind a semi when one lets go.
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left them hanging on the bike
So after the highway thing, did you leave your skivvies out there too?
Haha, na this incident was not too scary because I had plenty of room. Still had to weave in and out of all the rubber. It was also two tires that went at once. The cagers going all over the road scared me more than the rubber.
Got pulled over recently and the cop said I was cruising fine at 65 or so with traffic but pulled from the right lane to the left and went 75 to pass a truck. I explained to him that there was no shoulder so I did not want to pass on the right and I do not like riding behind trucks. He said I should have passed even faster on the right. I said that would have got me an even worse speeding ticket. He said happy b-day and left.
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Nothing like the experience of riding a motorcycle to bring one closer to the natural environmental aromas.
"Despite all the amputation, you could dance to a rock 'n roll station..."
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I have heard that tomato juice will take out that smell quite nicely.
Let's hope there's intelligent life somewhere in space 'cause it's buggar all down here. -- Monte Python
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I have heard that tomato juice will take out that smell quite nicely.
From the ski pants or the skivvies?
if life gives you lemons keep them because hey,free lemons.
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Whenever I see a blown retread on the side (or in the middle) of the road, I shudder...I'd hate to be behind a semi when one lets go.
Two years ago when wojo and I were coming home from teh Georgia rally that hapened to us. A semi blew a tire into a zillion pieces of flying rubber with steel slivers in them into the air right in fromt of us. I have a shield, I ducked and grabbed hold hard of the bars. Pieces bounced all around me, I ran over some of the smaller ones (brakes and butthole pucker were in "full on" mode at the time too) but we made it through.
Then we slowed donw guite a bit for several miles and shook stuff down our pantlegs. We split up a bit farther down the road, but I am sure John remembers that one. 
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can't you hear it first? i mean the tire, not the skunk or skivvies. i rememeber hearing a retread whupwhupwhupping its way down the road before it let go.
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I have heard that tomato juice will take out that smell quite nicely.
Actually...a recently departed good friend of mine was in business as "The Skunk Man" for many years. He would trap skunks in rural neighborhoods and release them in the wild. Needless to say, he got skunked pretty much daily. We had an family make themselves to home under my shed one year and trust me, you do not want skunks living in your side yard. The babies woulkd all comne out about 5 pm and surround the house. they would sit on the porches and literally trap us inside. They had every exit covered. They had to go!
Anywho, he would come over to my house and cut all the fuzzy buds off my sumac tress when the branches were nice and red fuzz. He would take these, make them into a tea and wash himself off with it every night. It worked amazing. He would smell like a skunk den, then an hour later he would bathe and meet us for brews and you would never know it.
There ya go, Erma Bombeck tip or more dink insanity.... you decide.
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There ya go, Erma Bombeck tip or more dink insanity.... you decide.
it's okay. we know you're really channeling dear Erma's energy from the other side of the septic tank(where of course, the grass is always greener.)
i got skunked many many years ago. a long story. for another day and time  
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Back in the late 60s I would come home on weekends from the army.The speed limits on interstates back then was 70 mph.Without a windshield,I'd often wave to the driver as I tucked in behind his 18 wheeler to rest my neck just feet off his rear bumper.In his draft you could let up on the throttle and be sucked along.As I was pulling back out into the air stream one time a inside rear dual let go.Lucky for me the carcass stayed on but I got pelted with melting hot rubber.I had red welts all over my arms,neck,and face when I got stopped.Needless to say I'm a quick study and to this day even in a cage I don't spend any time behind or beside a big rig!! 
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Here's one for Ripley's.... growing up in rural Iowa I am definitely no stranger to skunks. Apparently I am lacking the neccessary chromosone (which might explain some of my other abnormalities, but as was said earlier, a long story for another day and time, hehe) to be able to smell the little polecats. I have ran over them by accident, nada. Got sprayed a couple of times while out hunting.... one of the sprayings caused a former girlfriend of mine to gag to the point of barfing while helping me "de-skunk". Course I was laughing so much at the time this would prolly be considered the main reason for her being a FORMER girlfriend. Second spraying was enough that the neighbors in my four flat asked me to vacate the premises until I was able to come home smelling like a rose. This inability to smell the little varmits started long long before my smoking or any chemical abuses could be put to blame for my olfactory disfunction. I've always felt like I was missing something in life, oh to once just once smell the little critter, *sigh*.
On the tire note, happened to me this past weekend on the expressway heading out to the dealer.... had to go into emergency pull over mode as there was exploded tire(s) all over the road and cars were running over the chunks like they weren't even there.... throwing them up in the air and all over the place. Why oh why with all the technology available to us can they not make a non-exploding truck tire? Why are retreads even legal? Why can't I smell skunks?
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Nothing like the experience of riding a motorcycle to bring one closer to the natural environmental aromas.
OK call me wierd. Wait! let me rephrase that........
I kind of like the smell O Skunk on the winds. Not the overpowering, blister paint off a John Deere tractor variety, but a whiff. One of nature's best aromas
JH
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...I kind of like the smell O Skunk on the winds. Not the overpowering, blister paint off a John Deere tractor variety, but a whiff. One of nature's best aromas
Skunks have two entirely different aromas. the one you refer to is what I call the mild one. The other one is when it is up close and personal and it is gaggingly terrible you almost can't breathe.
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You're weird!!
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I don't mind skunk either...kinda smells like good herb.
Mark
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Most of nature's smells aren't too bad ...FROM A DISTANCE, isn't that part of the enjoyment of riding? The occasional skunk, the change of seasons, the farms.... ok call me weird too.
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You are also weird!
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I kinda like the smell of a skunk as long as it isnt too strong. reminds me of my teen years.
we should do this every weekend!
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