One of you guys loose a lily pad?

[oldjeep]

Looks like a nautique ski boat

fox9.com/news story

[The_MS]

WOW

[gregy]

Lucky guy. Could have be much worse.

[Chef23]

Scary.

[Bulldog]

that rider is lucky. Wear all the gear all the time.

[lcgordon]

PPl bring too much crap to the water.

[oldjeep]

Judging by where it happened likely headed to their cabin in WI for the weekend/week.

[The_MS]

Cheese heads drinking to much paint thinner before they tied up the pad.

[liquid d]

I think I would've hit the brakes and not been following so close.

[oldjeep]

Or maybe turned away from it rather than following it to the right ;)

[Nando]

Yikes! Hey, I went to high school with the woman who filmed it- haven't seen her in years. MS may have it- heading east just a few miles from cheeseland... Didn't look like he was following particularly close, but he was coming up pretty quickly. Good thing everyone else was paying attention.

[oldjeep]

News just said that the driver came forward to the state patrol. Must have figured out where the lily pad went.

[Horton]

Will @thager ever learn?

[thager]

That's not a lily pad, it's a wrestling mat!

[Nando]

Neighbor kids were using theirs as a wrestling mat the other day. It's all fun until the crying starts- "Mom- he punched me in the eye!!!"

[WBLskier]

Why was the woman filming? Did she see the thing flying around before it took off?

[SkiJay]

There's good technique and bad technique for falling off a road bike: rolling and tumbling = bad, spreadeagled like a starfish and sliding = less bad. Good thing this newbie was wearing shorts and sneakers for protection on the freeway too ... duh.

[lcgordon]

Dont target fixate. He did that and hit the pad. It could have been avoided.

[oldjeep]

@WBLskier - dashcam, they run anytime the car is running. Getting to be more common in the US

[Nando]

WBLskier- assuming it's who I think it is (lives about three miles from where it happened, married to an insurance guy who has dash cams in his vehicles, same name) it's as oldjeep says- they're becoming much more common.

[BrennanKMN]

I am pretty sure I saw that Nautique running down east highway 7 on Wednesday night. Late 90's early 2000's Air Nautique with beige coloring.

[oldjeep]

@BrennanKMN - Maybe. News said that the owner was from Menomonie

 

[Fast351]

Guy was very very lucky, both in the lack of injuries and not getting hit. I ride, and I ALWAYS wear the right gear. I did a superman off a motorcycle back in 2012 and have a separated shoulder as a permanent reminder, but it could have been MUCH worse. My helmet was deeply scraped on all 4 sides. Jacket was torn on front and back and it was a thick leather jacket. Only place I did get a couple rasberries was on my hands because it was hot and wasn't wearing gloves, they were in my jacket pockets. Won't make that mistake again.

 

Always wear the right gear, don't follow boats and contractor trailers, shit is always flying out of those. Don't wear shorts on a bike.