oldschoolsdime92 Posted November 22, 2009 Report Share Posted November 22, 2009 (edited) If anyone is riding in the area of spiker road in sidney be careful. There is crushed limestone all over the place.Townships and road crews use it in durapatcher machines.To give any of you who dont know what this is an idea, it has about the consistancy of sand but its the same color as the road. I was going into a nice sweeper and hit some. I was unable to turn. It was like riding a bicycle on the beach. I went down through the ditch, into someones front yard, through there yard. I got myself stopped, rode over to there driveway, made sure there was no one coming, and I just kept on riding. I must say this was one of the scariest situations riding I have ever had. The bike is fine, as am I. Just wanted to give anyone in the area the warning. Edited November 22, 2009 by oldschoolsdime92 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SWing'R Posted November 22, 2009 Report Share Posted November 22, 2009 ...I must say this was one of the scariest situations riding I have ever had. The bike is fine, as am I.How about your pants? Did you get the chocolate pudding out of there? Definately a shit-your-pants kinda moment! Glad you and the bike made it thru that unharmed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psyco1 Posted November 22, 2009 Report Share Posted November 22, 2009 Sounds like it was eye opening.I've lived around Sidney for a long time and don't know where Spiker Rd. is, google maps says there's one down by Piqua west of 66. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldschoolsdime92 Posted November 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 22, 2009 haha, I really didnt panic. It was like slow motion. I realized what was happening and even thought to myself, im glad this ditch isnt deep, and once i hit the grass, i sorta went into dirt bike mode. I had my foot down and was on the brakes. got into town, brushed alittle dirt off my boot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldschoolsdime92 Posted November 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 22, 2009 Sounds like it was eye opening.I've lived around Sidney for a long time and don't know where Spiker Rd. is, google maps says there's one down by Piqua west of 66.over in the area of demming and landon mill if you ever ride those? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ltsrunm Posted November 23, 2009 Report Share Posted November 23, 2009 Glad you were able to save it and everything worked out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RSVDon Posted November 23, 2009 Report Share Posted November 23, 2009 Damn Brandt. I leave and all ya'll are crashing! Glad you're okay man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldschoolsdime92 Posted November 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 23, 2009 only thing that had dirt on it was my boot! It sorta felt like i was flat track racing, but i know it wasn't that graceful! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reimbrandt Posted November 23, 2009 Report Share Posted November 23, 2009 Oh, over by lockington......... You get out in the country, around these parts, you gotta keep your head up. Earlier in the year when I still had the CBR they covered my father-in-laws road in loose gravel (fessler-buxton) and I don't think I broke 40mph. Speakn of landon mill and demming.... be cool through those twisties. I remember 4 or so years ago a kid had gotten a Ducati over on Demming and took it for its first spin. He shot into one of the tight turns about mid way to 66 and went left of center........ meet a pick up head on. He and the bike are history..................... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stargazer Posted November 23, 2009 Report Share Posted November 23, 2009 Anytime you keep it wheels down and ride off into the sunset is graceful! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldschoolsdime92 Posted November 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 23, 2009 Oh, over by lockington......... You get out in the country, around these parts, you gotta keep your head up. Earlier in the year when I still had the CBR they covered my father-in-laws road in loose gravel (fessler-buxton) and I don't think I broke 40mph. Speakn of landon mill and demming.... be cool through those twisties. I remember 4 or so years ago a kid had gotten a Ducati over on Demming and took it for its first spin. He shot into one of the tight turns about mid way to 66 and went left of center........ meet a pick up head on. He and the bike are history.....................landon mill is pretty bad from what i hear,theres a guy that lives on the road that came out and threw somthing at a guy in a group my buddy was riding with and he went down and broke a few vertibrate. I was on fessler buxton today actually. I ride out that way all the time. I used to ride demming pretty hard, untill they crack sealed it. They used some cheap crack sealer and it was slippery as snot for awhile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psyco1 Posted November 23, 2009 Report Share Posted November 23, 2009 Yea, Landman Mill's a good road with some tight turns, but if you lose it there's only houses & trees to run into. Be careful.Speaking of gravel they did nearly the whole road on St Rt 245 by West Liberty and Piatt Castles with that layer of gravel the put over tar to seal the cracks, that was interesting riding over. Glad I had the KLR at the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldschoolsdime92 Posted November 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 23, 2009 yea thats called chip seal. We unfortunately use that at work quite a bit. it sucks to ride on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reimbrandt Posted November 23, 2009 Report Share Posted November 23, 2009 My father-in-laws place is the one with the mules and several large grey buildings. If you guys that run up in this area ever get out past fletcher some... bounce by the shop. Go out fletcher on 36 to the second road turn left, go to the first road turn right (Snyder Rd.). the shop is on the left and ya cant miss it. I'm usually there till 2 and I'm out there some evenings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldschoolsdime92 Posted November 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 23, 2009 im just a hop skip and a jump from fletcher. I am just in troy right along troy urbana. Ill have to swing by sometime Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reimbrandt Posted November 23, 2009 Report Share Posted November 23, 2009 cool.... I must blast by your place every once and a while. My son goes to Miami East so when we need to make a quick jump to Troy, troy-urbana is the way I go. Hope to see ya sometime................ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldschoolsdime92 Posted November 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 23, 2009 yea, if your coming down troy urbana up to piqua troy, that neighborhood off to your left side, im just back in there. ill definitly let you know next time I am headed out that way. I have a buddy of mine that lives out on lost creek shelby, and I go out there from time to time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curby Posted November 23, 2009 Report Share Posted November 23, 2009 i ran into some of that shit up here. coming to a forked intersection, i wanted to go right. there was a car coming from the right and i went to go right... not going right, so i put my hand to tell them to stop, thankfully he stopped. i had no brakes, lucky it was a forked intersection and i was able to take the left and come to a stop. i bout shit myself. it was like ice. i guess thats where experience comes into play, right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldschoolsdime92 Posted November 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 23, 2009 indeed. I was definitly lucky. I feel if i wouldnt have had the dirt bike and bmx experience I have, it would have been alot worse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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