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Crazy foggy ride stories

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Any foggy ride stories??? Here is mine. A few years ago heading home from work around midnight turned onto Hwy #57 at Enniskillen heading north to Mosport road I ran into a wall of fog so thick I was only doing about 50 clicks and looking down beside the bike following the edge of the pavement and the gravel . I mean you couldn't see jack, no white line, no ditch, no signs....nuttin. Faceshield fogging up so bad had to continually wipe it. After travelling for what seemed forever I knew I must be getting close to Mosport road but visability was ziltch. Suddenly a set of headlights popped out of the gloom but they were not straight but on an angle. So I'm thinkin gee...... thats WEIRD! Then all I saw was a big diesel fuel tank and a set of dual wheels. So I lay on the brakes and swerve to the right and just cleared the back of a friggin DUMP TRUCK. Lucky it was a single and not pulling a pup or it would have been pancake time. What the heck is a dump truck doing out at midnight?????? Anyone top that???
 
Few years back, coming back from Wasaga Beach through Owen Sound on HWY6 I caught a lot of fog. The day was very warm so I didn't pack too much clothing. Going through the fog drenched my leather suit and it was a lot colder than I expected. It was like riding through rain all night. Also I found that fog is worse on the visor than rain. Rain just flies off, but fog is too small to bead and fly off. It was a very cold ride.

BTW I just realized what a stupid route we took :) GPS these days makes things a LOT easier.
 
Not quite a fog story, but same concept.

In summer days when it gets too buggy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito), we would have a truck spraying bug-killer stuff around the block of our cottage house. It looked like this:

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So, me on my bike (bicycle) chasing the truck, completely blinded by the smoke, dived into a public swimming pool near the road while it was packed. People had to rescue me LOL

Some laughed, some got ******, but my dad was ****** the most. That might be the day he lost hope on his only child..... then came my little brother into the picture tho, and he made me look like a genius after, so kudos to my bro =)
 
Just after the war we used to get these real pea-soupers in the east end. Fog so thick you could cut it with a knife and fork, serve it to your kids and watch them leave the table full t'brimstone. It were all the coal you see. During t'war everyone burned wood so there wern't as much fog, but by golly, as soon as we'd smashed the bloody Jerries and put Hitler to bed we got coal back on't hearth and back came them pea soupers. Aye them were the days. Great for lifting lead off church roofs though.
 
drove in fog today ... got to a point where there was only 10% visibility... missed my exit to work ... when i smelled cow **** i knew i went too far :(
 
I was secretly hoping you were gonna say you saw a ghost, or a zombie, or a headless horseman, or Paris Hilton.
 
Me and a friend were rushing 100km to catch the 1am ferry from North Sydney to Port aux Basques NFLD in thick rainy fog...we had under an hour to get there and about half way through the trip some psycho in a WRX happened in front of us. The guy was obviously familiar with the road because he was ripping it up at ridiculous speed. We followed his dim tail lights for 30 minutes doing 140 on twisty single laners :lol: managed to just catch the ferry
 
Wasn't fog 3 weeks ago on the Cherahola Skyway that made me pullover every few kms.It was the clouds.Made for a cool pic tho,and a vid of the same.
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Had someone pass us at a substantial speed a few years back. Saw him again about 15 minutes later. He'd missed a long sweeper and was in the middle of a corn field.
 
The best one I heard was two Swiss guys that got in an accident and both got concussions, but there was no damage to either car. They were going in opposite directions and both had their heads out the window looking down at the centre line, and smashed their heads together.
 
One ride up to Tobermory started with drizzle in the dark at 4am. The rain cleared around Orangeville, to be replaced with fog, which only got worse as I traveled up the Bruce peninsula. Fog condenses on everything and really permeates your gear with a chill. You constantly need to be wiping your visor. Open the visor and it fogs your glasses.

At one point I wanted to stop, but couldn't see the shoulders of Hwy 6. It was that bad--like a scene from Silent Hill. Fortunately, I soon spotted a pair of pickup tail lamps and paced them, knowing wipers and a heated windshield would give the driver better visibility. The worst of it didn't last long, but it felt like a hundred kilometers.
 
About 15 years ago I was at Acadia National Park near Bar Harbour. I was riding up Cadillac mountain and the fog got thicker and thicker and visibility was close to zero. I was panic stricken being 3 days from home and all. I also have poor balance sometimes and get dizzy when I don't have something to focus my eyes on. I was finally able to pull to the right to turn around. The left turn back down was completely blind though. I couldn't see anyone coming EITHER direction. I pulled out just hoping an RV wasn't about to pass by.
I've had similar situations in my car going up Mount Washington in NH. It's the mountains that have the worst fog...
 
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Crazy fog riding the bike to work in Waterloo (from Elora) Monday morning. The visor fogged up about 1/3 of the way into the 20min ride. Lifted the visor and my eyes started to water a little from the cold and fog. A jeep came up behind me as I'm doing about 85kmh in 20% visibility it was following me too close for my liking. I haven't mentioned yet that I have an M1 rider and have been riding my new bike for a total of 500km. So the road is fairly twisty and I'm slowing to about 80kmh in the turns....when all of a sudden through the fog I see multiple black tires across the entire road..a split second later I make out an outline of a white tractor and white trailer in the white fog across both lanes coming out of a driveway in the middle of nowhere. As I hit the brakes hard I'm not worried about my stopping or manuvering abilities..my concern is the jeep on my tail...as I swerved around the back end of the trailer I had about 8ft of lane between the back of the trailer and the shoulder of the road,I passed safely and the jeep didn't follow me near as closely for the rest of the ride into Waterloo. The ride home from work at 5pm was beautiful!
 
I ran over a coyote in heavy fog in Fallbrook, California.
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