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I have not stopped to snap pictures, but some of the barely 1.5 lane wide (no center divider and less than 20' width is common on the secondary and thridary roads)roads I frequent often in SW Wisconsin are farming roads and some of the machinery I encounter takes up more than road width, more than once I have crested a hill to find one "right there"

But as always my biggest threat I see on the roads I frequent.........
Wood rats and other motorcycles, one is usually surviveable (as evidenced by my 8 deer hits thus far and still up and walking and riding) and the other may not be (as evidenced by the 3 motorcycle collison in southern WI last weekend, all 3 died- not sure if the two were at fault or the one--head on though, all pronounced on the scene, all sportbikes with gear- just not great gear from the pic I saw and NOT "ALL THE GEAR".... helmet, jacket and gloves on 2, helmet T-shirt on the other, btu someone or two someones were in the wrong lane going way fast.... police estimated a 200mph combined impact speed I am told... but who knows if that is true)

I plan to ride down to that crash scene and take a look this weekend, hard to tell from what I have seen and been told if blind corner or crest/rise in the road or how tight the turn is as to why they could not avid each other...... one of my customers rode by it as they were picking up the bodies with zero urgency, all three covered in sheets and only two bikes visible, in pieces he said, both way off the road

 

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my WI riding area and roads of choice for their curves and lack of other vehicles and houses makes them great places for woodrats to also frequent.......luckily most of the time this means speeds at 70 mph or so--so some remote chance of "escape" if you are hyper alert.....
and quite often the tree line is less than 10' from the roads edge, many times much closer, in the corn belt of the ARCADIA area of SE WI, there are dozens of roads the corn grows up within 5' of the roads edge.........not a problem early season and after harvest but from mid June until Oct harvest, nearly zero visibility and lots of feed for deer and other animals right there....

The MN river valley side of the border and its huge sweepers and trip digits speeds is far less forgiving even though it does have bigger site lines and typically more distance in both ditches to see..... higher speeds means longer distances to stop,swerve and evade..... and some of these roads just scream deep triples for too many - I see far too many dead deer and even more live ones on these roads, not too mention the huge amount of vehicles every time I ride them to run trips with any confidence it won't end with meeting hitting a deer or some idiot on a bike out of control or some cager with a pissed off attitude........thus I avoid Miineshithole sweeperland 98% of my miles

I was within inches a few weeks ago of making it deer hit #9, brakes as hard as I could scrubbing speed to maybe 25-30mph and the last 15' I was off brakes and swerved hard to avoid momma, then almost took out the damn fawn following closely behind...... but I'd rather hit the 50lb fawn than the 150lb momma if I have to hit one...... luckily none hit this time.....

AR trips aren't tons better, but it is usually the fuckers on 4 wheelers and side by sides coming out of the trees without looking, but I do not see nearly the density of deer in AR that I see in MN or WI....but way more suicidal squirrels which is far less cared about and much less of a threat