In Just A Glance, A Close Encounter Of The Worst Kind.
Yesterday while riding some back roads of East Texas, Highway 47 in Van Zandt County. We were crossing the bridge at the Lake Tawakoni spillway and I glanced off, to my right, for a quick look at the spillway and when I looked back I was eye level and inches from a huge buzzard. I took a death grip on the handle bars, ducked to the right and missed contact by mere inches. Too bad my riding buddy following me didn't have a GoPro camera mounted on his helmet.
Moral of my story, NEVER take your eyes off the road in front of you.
Yesterday while riding some back roads of East Texas, Highway 47 in Van Zandt County. We were crossing the bridge at the Lake Tawakoni spillway and I glanced off, to my right, for a quick look at the spillway and when I looked back I was eye level and inches from a huge buzzard. I took a death grip on the handle bars, ducked to the right and missed contact by mere inches. Too bad my riding buddy following me didn't have a GoPro camera mounted on his helmet.
Moral of my story, NEVER take your eyes off the road in front of you.