transfixer
Senior Member
they don't jump out of the way like most critters. Certain time of the year they are in the road a lot , they lay their eggs in a ditch. If you gave your bike leaned over in a curve and hit one, your bike flies out from under ya. City boys
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Encountered one once on a backroad north of Panama city,, luckily it was a straight road and it wasn't quite as big as the one in the pic, I was running about 60 or so, came over the crest of a small hill and there he was , I hit him dead center, I had already tensed up for what I just knew was going to be a bad ride across the asphalt, but I guess my Roadking was heavy enough it never wobbled, poor turtle flattened like a pancake, but I stayed up and rolled on.