Coming home tonight I hit a tar snake at about 25 mph while in a right turn. The front wheel took off like I'd hit an icy spot. The bike went down of the right side and left some gouges in the street about 50 feet long. I was lucky. A few bruises, a sprained ankle and a few scrapes on the leather jacket, gloves and helmet. The bike suffered a broken driving light, bent rear turn signals, foot board bracket, muffler and mirror. Once I'd had a few minutes to shake it off I rode the bike home.


I'll put it up on the jack and check for other damage tomorrow but at first glance it doesn't appear to be worth calling the insurance company. To think, just a few minutes earlier I went over 66,666.6 miles.

I plan to jump all over the city street guy for these stinking tar snakes. I'm curious, do they not know they are dangerous or just not care? If a private company left a hazard like this on the streets they'd be sued into bankruptcy.

We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.