Posted by Capt. Capsize on February 28, 2002 at 15:19:37:
I had time yesterday to go for a nice cold ride so I rode my new Magna for an hour or so then parked it and rode my Savage for an hour over the same roads. I was cruising along about 40 on a scenic upscale residential road when all of a sudden I heard the most awful and very loud explosive noise right between my legs. It was so loud I felt my eardrums clang together, it happened so fast I couldn't reason it out till I was well passed that spot. The bike was still running fine so I knew it wasn't the machinery coming apart. Then it dawned on me, earlier the trash was being picked up and the trash men had left a metal trash can lid where the wind could have flipped it on to the road. It was laying on the road in a tree shadow and the sun was very bright and I was riding towards the sun. I didn't see it until I turned around to look at where it happened. I had run square over it with both wheels, I never felt it but then I had jumped a foot from the noise so if the bike had moved under me I probably would never have felt it. After the adenaline shot wore off, I could thank God it wasn't a brick or something else big enough to flip me off. I never saw it coming!
Happy trails.