Motorcycle accidents caused by horse manure?

While the tension between car drivers and other road users - motorbike riders, cyclists, horse riders, etc - is well documented, there is also the potential for tensions to arise between the minority road users too. This is perhaps best demonstrated by the fact that horse riders have been accused by bikers of causing motorcycle accidents by allowing their horses to drop manure in the road.

While this would only give a car a moment of wheelspin, the bikers have argued that a bike crash can easily result from the loss of traction after the smaller, lighter vehicle goes through the horse's leavings.

One motorcyclist on the Daily Gripe website, for example, writes "You are riding along at a safe speed when you lean into a bend and there it is in the middle of the road, worse than ice, where do you go? All you can do is hope and pray."

Of course, the comment stream to that page also contains people who suggest that any motorcycle injury incurred may be the biker's fault, and that something else the griper could do is slow down and remember that horses used the road first. Naturally, this causes a noticeable level of bickering on the page.

One creative solution is suggested by the story of a Australian Harley Davidson rider, who crossed thousands of American road miles using only biofuels of various kinds. One of these was farmyard manure. Perhaps future motorbike models will come with a poop scoop?

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