Mad Mike
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I never remember to take pics on my rides, ride reports need pics.
Maybe I should turn on my Go Pro.
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Things you see while riding 🙄
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Maybe I should turn on my Go Pro.
-Maverick-
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Riding in Wasaga Beach...I usually have my helmet camera on all the time, but it was a GoPro back then and of course the battery was dead. A pack of wolves crosses the road about seven feet from me. Like ten or twelve of them. I couldn't get over the size of them compared to a coyote. It was something to see. And I'm glad they had no interest in me.
The guy formerly known as Mladin.
The guy formerly known as Mladin.
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I went to Elora Gorge really late at night and interrupted a couple 
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I ran OVER his cousin, a prairie chicken, in South Dakota. Dumb thing stood at the other side of the road until the last minute then it blasted across and smack into the bike.
They can get territorial. My uncle was doing some gardening with a shovel and one took a run at him. He just positioned the shovel right and the stupid thing whacked into it, several times.
I thought the law was a seat and seat belt for every passenger. Maybe the white car carried the white kids.
re the toboggan thing, guilty of being the driver and also being towed. Forget the brake issue. If you as the driver get it right on a turn the toboggan hits the snowbank like a launch ramp. Prizes for distance and altitude.
On the sad side, an old gent I knew was a very good waterskier but made the mistake of letting a know-it-all-drive the boat. Full power launch and up to well over 40 Miles per hour. Then getting the signal to slow down, the driver chopped back to idle letting the rope go slack and wrap around the gent's legs. Then he hit the throttle again. The old guy was never the same again.
Everything is fun until someone gets hurt.
Law is a seat and seatbelt for every passenger in the car, not sure what it says about open trailers. I think there is a law regarding passengers in camping trailers.
For boats, there are only a few people i trust to tow my family. My dad, my brother and me. In the interest of me getting some time behind the boat, my fil drives if I am being pulled. Definitely less good but I am paying attention to what is happening so I have a chance to solve problems if they arise. Had to turn and burn to rescue a few people in my younger years, dont play around anymore. My wifes family doesnt get it yet as they havent had to dive for friends and family. They'll put an adult life jacket on a 60 lb kid and say good enough. F that, not only am I not towing you, you are not even a passenger in the boat. There are a lot of good lifejackets, find a proper one. Every person that gets towed gets lifted by the shoulders, if the lifejacket slides up, it needs to be tightened. After a few years of this, they have gone from 100% failure rate to 20% failure. One of the people I pulled out had a lifejacket pop up on them so their head was where their stomach should be and arms were trapped straight up. Not a lot of people have enough kick to keep their head out like that. That was the last time they ever went behind a boat. Almost any moron can drive in a straight line but when things go wrong, you need someone that is on the ball to get back faster. 100% chance my fil wont trim down on the hard turn back (assuming he actually did the hard turn and didnt just cruise back). When they take they other grandkids out, often the spotter is my mil with two artificial hips and no clue how to drive a boat. Thankfully nothing has gone wrong as they have no ability to deal with it.
I was under the impression that the only exemption to the "No one in trailers" law was a horse carrier.
Don't always trust the teachers. I took a Power Squadron course and the instructor was obviously not into sailing. "Never jibe a sailboat. The boom smashes againt the mast beheading people and destroying sails". He must have been on a boat with cotton sails and no boom vang.
When someone goes overboard a jibe is fast. You don't want to lose sight of the person in the water while playing around with unnecesary maneuvers.
The biggest faux pas I made with a boat was not taking firm command and not foreseeing actions by a helpful person that didn't undestand boats.
The boat had an inboard engine and one runs the bilge blowers for five minutes before starting the motor. We had been ashore for a bit and as soon as I stepped aboard a cousin, used to outboards, cast off the bow line and the boat started to drift into another boat anchored a few feet away. I had a second to decide on the bigger risk, a collision or explosion. I started the engine and all went OK but that was because I have a fetish about keeping the bilge compartment A-1. It may sound like Captain Bligh but clarifying the order of command beats a trip to the morgue.
BTW a friend was caught with brand new life jackets from CTC that didn't have the right certification. He also had a porta potty that showed a picture of a boat in the literature but didn't qualify for his use because it was too portable.
A collection of legal lifejackets stays in the boat. Depending on the adult/watersports being attempted, the towee either wears a legal life jacket or we have a couple impact rated at 100 and 120 mph that are not legal. I feel a lot safer in those.
Mad Mike
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That's a farm wagon - no different than the rickety wagons that tractors pull around at Christmas tree farms. It can't be gong that fast, hair and headscarfs aren't flapping in the wind, and being passed by a RoadKing.
Just some good old country fun.
Mad Mike
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For me it was riding minibikes from York Millls to the Brickworks in shorts and running shoes in the summer. Super-Slider-Snow-Skates and a rope hooked onto the bumper of TTC busses in the winter.
Wow, there's a blast from the past!
When cars had bumpers, on a snowy day we'd wait for one to slow down on a corner and grab on, keeping low so the driver didn't see us.
Mad Mike
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I used to teach sailing and prep for power squadron on Simcoe way back. For beginner recreational sailors, the instructions were simple never jibe, all we taught was how to recognize and handle a flying jibe. Those instructions were there because it was considered an advanced skill that was not necessary for recreational sailing. Kind like an M1 exit instructor saying 'never drag a knee'.
As for bowers in gas bilge inboards, I could never understand why there wasn't a lockout timer on blowing a bilge. A simple time lockout and emergency override switch would cost next to nothing.
In small centerboard boats it never tore up sails, and the booms were light enough they rarely injured people -- falling out and capsizing happened alot.
sburns
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I don't disagree, mostly, that would be fine on a farm, not a public road where something harmless as this could turn into a tragedy with all the idiots out there.
Oh and it's an ElectraGlide I have
Mad Mike
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Oh sorry, no disrespect intended.Oh and it's an ElectraGlide I have
I’ve passed parades of old fellers riding RoadKings at John Deere speeds down country roads.
sburns
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None taken!
Lol yep sometimes when I am out cruising taking it all in it's not about speed. You may have passed me, and I always let other riders pass who want to go quicker.
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