Snakes

I got a little rattled today by one myself. Took me a good hour to get back in a groove.

 

Us old people just go, " oh! What the fuck." then crank that throttle again. Chances are, within the hour, we have forgotten.

 

Hahah. I did twist the throttle some more then made sure my handling was intact.

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I have heard the hitting cane toads up north can be a bit unsettling

 

Are those not dangerous?

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I don't remember tar snakes being a problem until the late 1990's. I remember someone mentioning a tar snake, and I had no idea what they meant. Unfortunately, this is another case of Government cheaping out on it Citizens. ...and the "Cagers" don't care. I remember, in fact, that the sealer they used would kind of dry up after a few years and crack, but it was not slippery, or am I just not remembering?

 

Jeff, the cane toad is pretty slippery when you squash it, and there is millions of them and they are spreading all across the top of Australia with no predator to attack them. They even kill crocodiles so little chance of stopping them now, and the clowns introduced them here, another disaster engineered by the so called smart people

 

Better than hitting your trouser snake

 

I hear that licking one of those cane toads is a good way not to care much aboot tar snakes.

Another fun road thing is hitting a scarification project especially with bias ply tires.

 

Get used to tar snakes. Highways and roads are not engineered with motorcyclists or bicyclists (I ride both) in mind concerning safety or anything else important to us. We are anti-social "crotch rocket" riders who are people with poor judgement because these machines, as do "murdercycles" reach out and indiscriminately kill us the same way guns do. The term "gun violence" has become a catchy phrase and soon we can expect "crotch rocket murder and violence" to be another phrase that is used to identify us by low IQ motorists that we disrupt in their daily "driving" as we invade their space and way of "thinking". Rant over.

 

I'm a new rider up in the North East I have seen these tar snakes on occasion didn't know they could cause such havoc. Thanks for the heads up!! On them hot days I probably wont be on the bike once temps reach mid to upper 90's. Glad no one got hurt due to these idiotic so called fixes. I can't believe it is 2016 and the conditions of some of these roads. I ride thru some of the towns where they pay less money in taxes and there roads look like there was a damn meteor shower just days ago, it's despicable. Folks don't care because they just bounce over them sh*t roads in there tall station wagons (SUV's) with not a f*ck given.

 

You hit that one square of the head. Otherwise you would have never seen those fucking cable crash cables separating lanes of traffic. I am sure they are great at deflecting cars and even larger trucks and prevent a lot of head on collisions, but a bike hitting those things?

Someone told me that out in the eastern states, hey are either pulling those damned things out or and not installing them any more. I would much rather run up against one of those concrete no post barriers, slide along, break some bones that be decapitated or have limbs cut off by those cables.

 

They're pulling them here too. Couple of cars slid under them.

 

Tell you what, the roads here in the Black Hills are like nothing I've ever ridden on, and they DO seem like they were intended for motorcyclists.

The are perfectly paved, maintained, and laid out las such.

The tar snake I hit was in WY on my way to Devils Tower.

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How did you end up in the black hills? Stugis is latter in the year.

 

Jeff thought about going there but he doesn't speak or even understand blub-blub-blubese.

 

Hell with Sturgis.

I'm here to ride, not drink beer, smoke pot, and look at inebriated skanks in leather chaps ...

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Not if you're hitting them with a hocky stick or decent golf club.

 

Hit some tar snakes in the wet at 90mph east of Indy on rt70 about 10 years ago. Almost ripped the bars out of my hands. Dropped down to 70mph and was no different. The passing lane was snake free so guess where I rode. It scaret me big time. I know of two different types of tar snakes. The gushy type then we have the smooth tar that hardens (aka "black ice" ) and gets real slick in the wet.

They have a section of that wire guard rail where I live and they won't change it. I think about it almost every time I ride that section of highway. It should be illegal to use.

 

Randy, you ain't seen nothing yet regarding the wire rope barriers, they are now considering out here putting them down the middle of a single each way road. Just amazes me how many dickheads we have in power in this country. One upon a time Aussies were a smart bunch, been the influx of millions of foreigners that has dummed down the old Aussie.