Oh.. ok I just thought of something that scared the shart out of me.. I was riding down the highway and I see the sign "road construction ahead" followed by "grooved pavement: motorcycles use extreme caution"      The grooves where parallel to the flow of traffic and my tires followed right along with them, acting on their own.  The back tire wanted to go left then right and the front wanted to go the opposite.  There was no shoulder to pull off on and the exit wasn't for another couple hundred feet.  I slowed way down and pulled to the right, but it was still scary as hell..   at that time I wish the gs had hazards cause I would have been flashing them.

I have an irrational fear of my wife. everything else seems petty.

Quote from: dubkeith on March 11, 2007, 10:18:09 PM
I have an irrational fear of my wife. everything else seems petty.

Quote from: annguyen1981 on March 11, 2007, 07:42:33 PM
I have a fear of sheep, but I just go and do it.

hey i was in montana at a party and a big male sheep(ram?) bit and tore most of my of cusins shirt off from behind. things are vicous

Quote from: frye on March 11, 2007, 10:31:53 PM

Quote from: dubkeith on March 11, 2007, 10:18:09 PM
I have an irrational fear of my wife. everything else seems petty.

Quote from: annguyen1981 on March 11, 2007, 07:42:33 PM
I have a fear of sheep, but I just go and do it.

hey i was in montana at a party and a big male sheep(ram?) bit and tore most of my of cusins shirt off from behind. things are vicous

Goats too...  just as soon headbutt you as look at you... rowdy lil fockers

  i work in downtown san rafael (ca) and have to park in a garage (never pay for parking though, i leave after 11pm every night so i don't even pay as a cage) and one of the turns i have to take has 3 manhole covers in quick succesion and i'd have to swing really wide to miss then, so i always cringe on those, and having to turn where there's painted lines and stuff and i have no choice but to cross them. i wrecked because of a center line so paint makes me cringe.

Quote from: ledfingers on March 12, 2007, 02:14:49 AM
i work in downtown san rafael (ca) and have to park in a garage (never pay for parking though, i leave after 11pm every night so i don't even pay as a cage) and one of the turns i have to take has 3 manhole covers in quick succesion and i'd have to swing really wide to miss then, so i always cringe on those, and having to turn where there's painted lines and stuff and i have no choice but to cross them. i wrecked because of a center line so paint makes me cringe.

Only been there once... hung out at Cafe Kaldi for an afternoon with a bunch of accomplished hardcore party kids. I was impressed... all I remember is one of the girls had a velvet bra.

I think my biggest fear is how the bike is going to react when I'm doing a leaning turn and I hit the painted road marking (pedestrian cross walk, turning arrows, etc...).

If you're scared of debris falling down from high places, here's a hint:  Don't go riding under the Encounters Restaurant near LAX  (news article here). 1,000 lb sections of stucco have been reported as falling from the building.

Quote from: rob1bike on March 11, 2007, 05:08:14 PMI'm afraid of a papercut to the eye! Ouch!

  My dad got one when I was about 8...  He had to wear a patch for a month...  I got my ass beat for sneaking up on him and yelling BOOOO!

Quote from: ledfingers on March 12, 2007, 02:14:49 AMi work in downtown san rafael (ca)

.   I used to live in Marin!     I went to Mt Tam HS for nearly two years...  Until they kicked me out.


I have two irrational fears...  They are TOTALLY irrational. 

I used to LOVE heights, but since I nearly killed myself falling off a rope-swing, I've had nightmares about it and get mild panic attacks and vertigo when I'm up high...  I'm not NEARLY as bad as I was about 13 years ago...  I couldn't stand on a chair back then.    I get it when I'm in tall buildings...  Or even when I'm watching a movie...  It totally sucks.

The other is a fear of drowning...  I drowned when I was a kid.  I've been irrationally afraid of water as long as I can remember...  My body panics more than my mind...  It's rather odd.  I had a body panic attack when I was wakeboarding...  My mind knew everything was ok, but my heart rate was through the roof and I was shaking like a little chihuahua (No, not from the cold)...   But, I was still having fun.   

Now...  Put the two together and you have.......    Driving a car off a bridge into water.  Completely irrational...  But, it's a combo of my two irrational fears.     That scene in the movie "The Game" nearly gave me a heart attack.  Or when Mythbusters was doing the "Escape from a car underwater" tests...   


On the GS, sometimes I worry that my chain is going to break and wrap around the rear tire....  But, only 'cause I that happened to someone on this board...     It's not a real fear though...  I just think about it sometimes....

what about The Abyss? Ever seen that? The sub fills up with water and there's only one suit for two people... she drows consciously... Then he has to drag her to the other one and revive her... phew.

Lots of drowning in that movie.



Phillippe Petit's totally guerrilla WTC tightrope walk... amazing and inspiring story.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillippe_Petit

Quote from: nightrider on March 13, 2007, 03:51:01 PMwhat about The Abyss? Ever seen that?

Yup...  Good movie...

I'm scared of the IRS! And you should be too!

I wouldn't call it an irrational fear as in i get panic attacks but i really find it hard to start working on something electrical even though i know its perfectly safe. I get completely wound up about touching wires even when they are not live, this extends to putting jump leads on a car battery i get worried doing even that. This stems from a few years ago when we were building the house that i currently live in. We were putting a new ceiling up and my parents were holding a massive sheet of plaster board and i had to poke the light wires through a precut hole in the centre. I knew they were meant to be off so i did it not worrying until i touched them and got a massive mains electric shock and was knocked off the ladder i was standing on and got sever burns on my hand. It would appear that in manovering this massive piece of plaster board that the light switch got knocked on. Im not as bad as i was - i still get nervous though and jumpy. Especially when i do get shocked by something even just a slight shock then it just knocks ya back.