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<blockquote data-quote="NightShine" data-source="post: 13334" data-attributes="member: 294"><p>So much can go wrong on the roads, it would seem that only the lucky or the ever vigilant survive unscathed. Fortunately, life will occasionally give you a little forewarning.</p><p></p><p>I was on the slab on my way home to the Bay Area from Sacramento one windy night, when I started to feel these sharp pings against my right leg. Then it started increasing and I could hear my fairing and windscreen getting pelted as well. And then I noticed the smell of something burning!</p><p></p><p>I pulled over a couple of lanes and could see that the 18 wheeler that I was coming up on had by now begun to bellow a dark plume of thick black smoke from the left rear wheels of his trailer, followed shortly by a torrent of metal-on-asphalt sparks that barked back in a sharp, bright stream reaching 30 or 40 feet behind him! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite9" alt=":eek:" title="Eek! :eek:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":eek:" />mg: </p><p></p><p>As i passed him, he seemed to have things under control and was slowing way down and pulling over toward the right shoulder of the road. This was all pretty dramatic, and it's easy to imagine how this might well have been quite a different experience to anyone who happened to be very much closer to that trailer when his tire blew.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NightShine, post: 13334, member: 294"] So much can go wrong on the roads, it would seem that only the lucky or the ever vigilant survive unscathed. Fortunately, life will occasionally give you a little forewarning. I was on the slab on my way home to the Bay Area from Sacramento one windy night, when I started to feel these sharp pings against my right leg. Then it started increasing and I could hear my fairing and windscreen getting pelted as well. And then I noticed the smell of something burning! I pulled over a couple of lanes and could see that the 18 wheeler that I was coming up on had by now begun to bellow a dark plume of thick black smoke from the left rear wheels of his trailer, followed shortly by a torrent of metal-on-asphalt sparks that barked back in a sharp, bright stream reaching 30 or 40 feet behind him! :omg: As i passed him, he seemed to have things under control and was slowing way down and pulling over toward the right shoulder of the road. This was all pretty dramatic, and it's easy to imagine how this might well have been quite a different experience to anyone who happened to be very much closer to that trailer when his tire blew. [/QUOTE]
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