Absolutely the craziest thing I have ever seen on a motorcycle happened today. So I was at orientation for my new job at J.Crew and as I'm getting in my car a north american road squid leaving the building notices I have a motorcycle tire in the back of my car and starts attempting to communicate. Anyways after the usual oh that's cool you ride a triumph but I do 180 on the freeway on my 1000 script(I didn't feel like upsetting the creature as time was limited and an upset squid can be quite the time consuming), the creature hops on his bike(quite the tricked out the gixxer 1k i must admit) and I get in my car. Not 15 seconds later do I hear a gixxer screaming and the squid performing the ritual of 90mph in a crowded parking lot. My jaw then dropped another 6inches lower from its' already dropped position as I watched the front end lock up as a giant back hoe(they're currently repaving the lot) defied the squid by driving squarly in front of the creature. At this point I'm thinking this is probably the craziest thing I have ever seen on a motorcycle. At this point the squids performs the all impressive ritual of the high side by somehow almost fully dropping the bike on the left side and then somehow regaining enough traction to highside to the right. Alright bar none(wera and ama races included) this was one of the most amazing dismounts ever. The squid goes flying through the air straight at the backhoe while his bike somehow manages to start sliding without summersaulting. At this point it's a race between the bike and the rider to see who challenges the 5 ton backhoe first. The squid lands maybe 5 feet before the backhoe and slides UNDER THE BACKHOE without grazing it. the bike following, taps one of the tires on the backhoe and spinning on its side, goes UNDER THE BACKHOE. Meanwhile the operator of the backhoe has managed to bring the equipment to a stop but seems petrified to do anything beyond stare. Since I've been in a few low sides myself the main thing I was worried about at this point is the fact that the bike usually exceeds the rider in sliding distance and the bike was following the rider under the backhoe. So as I'm running over to the scene, maybe a few hundred feet away from my car. I hear the motorcycle running and think to myself why the hell hasn't that thing cutoff yet. Low and behold as I finally reach the backhoe I see a ton of smoke coming out of the gixxer which the squid has picked up and is remounting. So after flying through the air, landing, sliding under a backhoe, this guy gets back on his bike and runs away with his bike smoking to all hell. Once I see that I found myself with the "deer caught in the headlights" look the backhoe operator had been demonstrating for the last 2 minutes. I talked to the backhoe operator a little bit and he was a nice enough guy although our conversation was limited to synonyms and various versions of "holy sh*t". He figured since the backhoe didn't get hurt and the guy had already crushed his bike, riding gear, pride, and I would guess from the landing a bone or two that he wasn't going to worry about filing a police report. I kept my opinions on the matter to myself since ultimately I really wasn't involved and the specimen of squid was a creature inspiring the most dumb struck look I have ever exhibited. So yeah, by and far the craziest north american road squid spectacle I have ever seen in my life.
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