Post by doubleg910 on Sept 24, 2009 9:27:04 GMT -5
Hard to believe this one, but true.
I was riding a Gold Wing 1500 up in Maine on my monthly rep visits and decided to get off I-95 on my way to Houlton and Presque Isle up in Northern Maine. Well the road I saw pn the map looked ok but when I got up on it a bit it was just two lane blacktop, and not very good as it went up into paper mill country , clear cut areas etc, Boring...long story short I was booking along about 75 MPH and hit a frost heave in the road, ( for those of you down south, a frost heave is where water under the road freezes and the pavement gets buckled upwards)
Well that one raised me up out of my seat a bit, no problem, the bike then settled all the way down on its suspension and I then hit another frost heave, perfect timing, the bike launched off that frost heave as the suspension went into rebound and at 75 you're going about 100 ft a second. I was in the air long enough to say "Oh Sh--" and then some... so I figure it was about 150 feet or more , not very high, but high enough to get me all the way out of the seat, standing on the pegs and hanging on like motocross..I was pulling them bars like my life depended on it, well the bike came down nice on its rear wheel, (prayers do come true...) the front dropped down hard, shook its head a couple times real good but stayed up.
If I had punched into the "beauty strip" of trees they leave along the road after clear cut, I don't think even the Moose hunters would have found me out there.
Needless to say I slowed down and when I got to the dealer in Presque Isle I got the bike on the lift to make sure I didn't blow a seal or bend something...no problem, they sure make those GLs good. So that has got to be a worlds record jump on a Goldwing, even if by accident. Hard to believe, but true.
Gary Galleher
I was riding a Gold Wing 1500 up in Maine on my monthly rep visits and decided to get off I-95 on my way to Houlton and Presque Isle up in Northern Maine. Well the road I saw pn the map looked ok but when I got up on it a bit it was just two lane blacktop, and not very good as it went up into paper mill country , clear cut areas etc, Boring...long story short I was booking along about 75 MPH and hit a frost heave in the road, ( for those of you down south, a frost heave is where water under the road freezes and the pavement gets buckled upwards)
Well that one raised me up out of my seat a bit, no problem, the bike then settled all the way down on its suspension and I then hit another frost heave, perfect timing, the bike launched off that frost heave as the suspension went into rebound and at 75 you're going about 100 ft a second. I was in the air long enough to say "Oh Sh--" and then some... so I figure it was about 150 feet or more , not very high, but high enough to get me all the way out of the seat, standing on the pegs and hanging on like motocross..I was pulling them bars like my life depended on it, well the bike came down nice on its rear wheel, (prayers do come true...) the front dropped down hard, shook its head a couple times real good but stayed up.
If I had punched into the "beauty strip" of trees they leave along the road after clear cut, I don't think even the Moose hunters would have found me out there.
Needless to say I slowed down and when I got to the dealer in Presque Isle I got the bike on the lift to make sure I didn't blow a seal or bend something...no problem, they sure make those GLs good. So that has got to be a worlds record jump on a Goldwing, even if by accident. Hard to believe, but true.
Gary Galleher