In article , jim rozen wrote:
In article , Sunworshiper says...

The only bad run in with a bike for me was a time I was coming back
from the lake and a couple had a dead bike out in like 125F super dry
heat. I stopped to give them a ride into town and the dude wouldn't
leave his bike so I said lets put it in the truck. We at some point
are loading the bike and the guy lets his side go and the very hot
exhaust pipe burned into my bare leg before I let the bike go. I
started screaming at the guy why the %#%^& he let it go without
telling me. And he comes back with a whimpy "it was heeaavvyy..."
AH DA STUPID I says. I should have just heaved his bike off the truck
and left them there. It took years for that to fade away and every
time I looked at the 4" burn mark across my thigh I would hear him.

My wife still has a burn mark on her calf from about 20 years
ago, "I TOLD ya the pipes are hot!!"

As far as the trailer incident above is concerned, anyone who
can't load a motorcycle into a pickup bed or trailer should
not buy a HD. Jim

not THAT would be a trick, two guys loading a Harley into a PU bed(?)!
i think the brother had the HD. but exhaust pipe burns are yet another
dimension of mc injury not often discussed. passengers know about them.

my daughter and i crossed the Mojave into Needles (promptly dubbed,
Needless), CA, one June on a record heat day. against all common sense,
we had stripped down to bathing suits and bare feet (gawd it was
hot). we pulled into a park with a swimming pond and decided to cool
off. she really planted her right leg up against the pipes while
dismounting. we were already close to heat stroke and it took a moment
for the pain to register, pretty awful...

the final insult was that we froze our asses off in a rest area just
out of Flagstaff that same night. again, a record, LOW temp. --Loren