An odd aspect of riding that I didn't anticipate was smelling everything that I pass on the road. I expected to be more exposed to the elements, but smelling everything isn't the first thing that comes to mind when you think about the open road. Perhaps it's an aspect of my helemt, (ICON AllianceSS) or just me, but I smell all sorts of wierd things when I ride.
And yes, I do bathe. Sometimes.
I detect people hot-boxing their cars in traffic all the time. Which is sort of alarming when you're surrounded by cages at highway speed. I usually try and accelerate around those cars as quickly as possible. Sometimes ou smell nice things, especially when riding in the country or past aromatic resteraunts.
Of course there are bad smells too; construction, skunks, roadkill, sweage treatment facilities.
Just wondering if anyone else had encountered a situation where their sense of smell helped or hindered their ride.
And on a related note...ever sneeze inside your helmet? I did the other day and it wasn't pretty. Thankfully everything affected was removable. Snot is hard to deal with when you can't reach your face.
Quote from: AWRobinson on February 05, 2007, 06:48:43 PM
And on a related note...ever sneeze inside your helmet? I did the other day and it wasn't pretty. Thankfully everything affected was removable. Snot is hard to deal with when you can't reach your face.
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: the first day i rode my bike and being that i have a smoked shield didnt help me at all i had to ride with my sheild up :cry: man my eyes where dry by the time i got home
Ask Brian (AlphaFire X5) about the time he sneezed in his helmet and n00bed himself... :laugh:
Quote from: NiceGuysFinishLast on February 05, 2007, 07:31:44 PM
Ask Brian (AlphaFire X5) about the time he sneezed in his helmet and n00bed himself... :laugh:
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Yes, I smell things a lot more while I'm riding, too. The best is right after a rain when I can smell the trees and all the green stuff. The worst is when I ride by Krispy Kreme every darned day, and their donut stench reaches out and tries to grab me on the freeway! :mad: :laugh:
i smell stuff all day even if im not riding :o oh crap thats me wait i think i wait did i yeah i showerd today twice i think :cookoo:
whe i snotted my sheild it made me swerve i bit btu thats cause i sneeze loud and my head goes back then all that way to my chest
Yep, you sense lots of things on a bike you'll never notice in a car. Just a few weeks ago I was riding home about midnight and got treated to the best meteor shower I've ever seen over the period of 45 minutes or so. Would have missed the whole thing in a car.
Wait until you're going down the highway, it's 15 degrees out, and your nose is running. You have an important decision to make:
1) Let it run out and fly up into your helmet where it will cover your face, or worse, head down the collar of your leathers.
2) Reach out and grab it with your tongue before anything bad happens. :icon_mrgreen: :icon_razz:
Important things you never learn in the MSF. :thumb:
I was SOOOO paranoid when I smelled burning oil or smoke...
I would ALWAYS stop somewhere safe and inspect the bike visually. Of course, it never was anything with the bike, only with a cager's cage.
When I commute, I smell things.
Austin smells weird sometimes.
Things that Austin has smelled like over the past few months:
burning mesquite
urine
barbeque
chocolate
new tires
peanut butter
peanut butter? man i would have vomited, i can't stand that smell. :laugh: :laugh:
BBQ restaurants
seafood restaurants
pine trees
trucks/diesel
roadkill
beach/ocean
brush fires
night-blooming jasmine (we have a lot of it around here)
I have also sneezed inside my helmet on a cold-ish day and fogged it up. But no snot issues.
I smell a lot more stuff too, but it's usually nature, pine trees and the like. The one thing that amazes me is when I'm riding at night and I go from a populated Urban center past a Forest Preserve or whatnot, how much the temperature drops since the trees don't store the sun's heat as well.
++ smelling everything.
++ sneazing in my helmet... :icon_confused:
It's really great to smell the countryside when it's not filled with cows... But, riding through cow-country is rough. I always seem to ride faster when the air is filled with the smell of steamy-cow-ass. BLEH! :puke:
Was riding down the highway several weeks ago and came up on the scene of an accident. A semi full of chickens had over turned and chickens were dead, running around, maimed, and in the process of getting run over by passing traffic. The smell was horrible, and my gag reflex immediately kicked in. I pulled over and got my helmet lifted up just as vomit started flying out my head. A police officer was standing on the other side of a divider laughing his ass off and filming the chickens and me on his camera phone.
Haha, no offense Jarrett.. but that would have made me laugh too.. hell, I sat here on my computer and read that and laughed for awhile
Jarrett you my mama.... :laugh: :laugh:
Quote from: Matty B 500 on February 06, 2007, 08:30:18 PM
Jarrett you my mama.... :laugh: :laugh:
Sticks and stones may break my bones...
But they are no match for what I've got hidden under my belt. :2guns: :o
:laugh:
Quote from: AWRobinson on February 05, 2007, 06:48:43 PM
An odd aspect of riding that I didn't anticipate was smelling everything that I pass on the road. I expected to be more exposed to the elements, but smelling everything isn't the first thing that comes to mind when you think about the open road. Perhaps it's an aspect of my helemt, (ICON AllianceSS) or just me, but I smell all sorts of wierd things when I ride.
And yes, I do bathe. Sometimes.
I detect people hot-boxing their cars in traffic all the time. Which is sort of alarming when you're surrounded by cages at highway speed. I usually try and accelerate around those cars as quickly as possible. Sometimes ou smell nice things, especially when riding in the country or past aromatic resteraunts.
Of course there are bad smells too; construction, skunks, roadkill, sweage treatment facilities.
Just wondering if anyone else had encountered a situation where their sense of smell helped or hindered their ride.
And on a related note...ever sneeze inside your helmet? I did the other day and it wasn't pretty. Thankfully everything affected was removable. Snot is hard to deal with when you can't reach your face.
What is hot boxing? :icon_confused:
hot boxing = smoking massive amounts of marijuana inside a car, so the interior fills up with a haze of exhaled marijuana smoke. Think cheech and chong.
Jarrett, I wouldn't be suprised if we found that video on youtube.
Try searching "Chicken Highway Puke"
What a wonderful world we live in when our greatest mishaps and indescretions can be effortlessly shared with the world via anyone's cellphone.
EDIT: After actually searching youtube... this was the closest thing I could find to fit your description:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfrT8ki5Xuc
Oddly, this also turned up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifIMgzQmpts
Only on youtube