cv_rider
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Riding up the 880N in the Bay Area the afternoon, up in front of me was a large white thing floating the air. It was a styrofoam-y sheet/shroud like is wrapped around new disassembled furniture so it doesn't get scratched while still in the box. About 8 ft long and 3 feet wide. When I see lightweight stuff like this floating around on the road, I usually don't take evasive action. Hard to predict what it will do anyway - the wind bubble of the bike may just as easily push it away as suck it in. As I went by it, it went to my left side and sort of down. A second or two later, I looked down, and it was partially attached to the front fork. I was in the right lane, so I pulled over the breakdown lane to have a look. Sure enough, not only was it wrapped around the fork, but also all gummed up in the rear sprocket. Put it on the center stand and spun the rear wheel around enough to clean the sprocket of that gunk, which had turned into some nasty mixture of melted styrofoam and oil. It came off easier than I feared, and the worst of it was sitting on the side of the road as cars whizzed by four feet away at 60 mph. I appreciated the acceleration of the FZ6 when merging into a 60mph stream of traffic from a standstill.
Lucky that thing didn't get wrapped around my head while riding. That would have been really bad.
Lucky that thing didn't get wrapped around my head while riding. That would have been really bad.