What do you smell

[paulsibek]

I usually smell the Miller brewery, sometimes cigs and cigars, the smell of cooking food etc. Not to mention the #%^@& exhaust.

But last night I smelled something different in slow traffic. Sort of smelled like buring rope..

Piqued my interest to say the least.

[MCMXCIVRS]

Do you mean like a HEMP rope.:dunno

Perhaps it was some of them poor folks that always have to share one cigarette :D :brow

Either that or your pants got too close to the exhaust.:yow

[basketcase]

I know that smell.

And if had been me during my college years, I'd have inhaled. :cat

[widebmw]

Last fall I smelled some elect. wires burning from the car in front of me.
Later I noticed that my extra driving light low beam was not working. It had grounded out and smoked the wiring harness under the tank.
I guess it wasn't the car in front of me.

[kbasa]

For extra fun, pull up next to the car with the funny smell and shake your finger at them.

Paranoia runs deep...

:D

[oldcarkook]

Cracks me up. I am amazed at how often I catch a whiff of someone smokin' a dube on the bike. For those of us that ride, the smells are really incredible, but I am always cracked up by the space cadet that thinks it only stinks in his car.

Honeysuckle, wild roses, and today, cheap french hooker perfume so strong I could have passed out. I took a ride at noon to deliver some documents...plus I'm always looking for any excuse to ride. Anyway I had to run to Easton and since I was soooo close, I decided to take a zip over to Dunbar's Eurosports, the local Beemer dealer to see what's on the showroom floor and get caught up on the Daytona race debacle from the owner who's a multiple Daytona winner on Ducati.

I was stopped at a traffic light in Brockton and the next thing I know, I am overwhelmed with the stink of cheap stripper perfume! I mean like strong enough to choke on.

The gal with big hair in the car in front of me had opened the window to toss out a butt and all I could smell was perfume. The sweet sickening type. I thought to myself, "good Gawd! if that's this strong back here, what the hell is it like in the car?"

The smells of spring time are just awesome on the bike, and I suppose that in all fairness we have to recognize reefer and cheap perfume along with robins and blossoms as another sign of spring.
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[Cliffy777]

I smell the stuff they put on the fields alot. Who made the Honey in the Honey Wagons - it weren't Pooh. It is Pooh.

[lorazepam]

Nothing like a pig farm to get me to ask whoever is on the back, "Did you fart?"

[The_Veg]

Try riding past a TexSux stockyard.

[ScottM]

I ride past an In N Out Burger every night. Sometime I just have to stop and buy one.:D

[James O]

For those of you attending the Georgia Mountain rally this year, you have to appreciate the smell of chicken houses, especially in the morning. It's our way of saying "welcome"

James O
R1150RS

[Gnome]

I smell chicken too! It's coming from the great cooks at the Rocket City Rally ,Huntsville,Alabama! aka "The Chicken Rally". Now that is a great rally.:bliss

[1flyer]

Farmer's fields, cut grass, spring rain, and brake shoes.

[gambrinus]

Being stuck in Los Angeles for the past few years (Moving back to Denver in 42 days) it seems that every time I get stuck in slow traffic I can smell someone smoking some weed. If that's your thing, and you are hanging at your own house, that's just dandy by me. I DO however tend to get concerned about people driving around at 80mph - 90 mph half baked. People just spend so much time sitting still or putting along at walking speed that once the traffic does open up, they take off as if they can see a little green flag waving in the distance. If you've ever enjoyed a game of lane swapping, kamakazi madness in SoCal, you know of what I'm talking about. I will miss the 365 of ridable weather around here but that will be the ONLY thing that I'll miss!

Cheers

[Braddog]

I ride to work along a river, and there's clover along the banks. The smell of blooming clover is sweet.

Someone mentioned cheap, stinky perfume, what about the very attractive person that pulls up along side with some really GREAT smelling perfume? That, I can enjoy!

Also, the smell of restaurants....and I'm not talking McDonald's here, I'm talking ethnic restaurants and rib places...Mmmmm....

[BMWBeauty]

Originally posted by The Veg
Try riding past a TexSux stockyard.

I have.....It is worse than riding past a field sprayed with fresh manure....it is it so disgusting.....

:rolleyes

[username]

my burps.

[Montana]

Kbasa must be on fire. His signoff states, "Something wicked..." Oh, is that two syllables? He's not a candle?

[crvalley]

...until you've ridden through Trona, CA on the way to a Death Valley BMW Rally along Hwy 178...

It is a unique blend of sulfur and death that literally triggers a gag reflex. It doesn't help to breath through your nose, and of course the speed limit is 30 mph for what seems an eternity as you drive through this landmark of California...

I don't know how the hell people survive in that town, but they do, and they stay there, too. If we ever get nuked, the people of Trona will somehow rise and make due with what could only be viewed as an improvement to their current living conditions...

I think they should just change the town's name to Puke, CA...It's far more fitting...I'll take a freshly sprayed field of cow dung anyday...

On the brigher side!

While riding north on 101 or El Camino near San Bruno, CA, it is always great to smell the chocolate factory running at full steam!

[PeoriaMac]

I'll tell you what you don't want to smell, and that's a large truck's tire starting to come apart! Very distinctive smell of burning rubber, cords, etc. I get a whiff of that, and I start backing waaayy off.
Of course, right now, the only thing I'm smelling is the result of siphoning gas out of my wife's bike.
Every time I belch, its tastes like unleaded regular....and its been twelve hours.

Mac -- huuurrrp.

[kbasa]

Originally posted by crvalley
...until you've ridden through Trona, CA on the way to a Death Valley BMW Rally along Hwy 178...



I was through there last January and there's a little diner that's got an MOA sign hung out front! It's a permanent sign too! I had a ton of miles to do to get home or I would have stopped to say hi. Pretty wild, I'd say.

MOA - We are everywhere.

[Scootertrash]

"I love the smell of napalm in the morning."
-----Apocalypse Now

exhaust fumes, burning brakes...

[Ironhorsecowboy]

When riding to work in the mornings my first smell is of the rural farmlands with grass, hay and horses. As I proceed to the interstate I begin to smell the M&M Mars chocolate factory for about 3 miles. And no sooner has the sweet factory scent gone then I get a huge whiff of the smell of what appears to be the flatulence of beer and pickled eggs! Oh, its just the papermill where I work. Smells like money to me!!:fart

You never get use to that smell, maybe one day I'll go back to working in the nukes.

[Emoto]

Originally posted by oldcarkook

I was stopped at a traffic light in Brockton and the next thing I know, I am overwhelmed with the stink of cheap stripper perfume! I mean like strong enough to choke on.

The gal with big hair in the car in front of me had opened the window to toss out a butt and all I could smell was perfume. The sweet sickening type. I thought to myself, "good Gawd! if that's this strong back here, what the hell is it like in the car?"

Well, what the heck do you expect in BROCKTON??? :D

You're lucky it wasn't worse...

[Cliffy777]

could only be made better if I was fortunate enough to ride by a chocolate factory....
Ah, the stuff dreams are made of.

[Gnome]

My ride sometimes takes me by this strip joint,and I can smell...well anyway there is a lot of things I smell,maybe it's the Seafood place next door to it.:D

[lancew]

Funny- I quit smoking cigarettes about 7 years ago, but every now and then I find myself following someone smoking a cigarette in a car, even on the slab, and I get a craving for a Marlboro Light. Don't even care about 'em when I'm drinking (you quitters know what I mean), but sometimes when I pull the helmet off I could use one.

Now, about the pungent stuff... never had it, never tried it, hope I never see it again.

[jdcoffman]

Ah the sweet sweet smell of feed lots lots and lots of feed lots..(live cows) Then going by meat packing plants (dead cows) oh how sweet. Oh here comes a big truck full of doomed livestock oh I hope I don't get sprayed :wow
Not to mention corn processesing plants.

[Win3855]

I drive by the factory (http://www.bmbeans.com/bm_products.html) that make these delicious products.http://www.bmbeans.com/images/products/orig_jar.jpg Almost every day.:clap :clap

[Win3855]

Originally posted by Ironhorsecowboy
I get a huge whiff of the smell of what appears to be the flatulence of beer and pickled eggs! Oh, its just the papermill where I work. Smells like money to me!!:fart

You never get use to that smell, maybe one day I'll go back to working in the nukes. Kraft process?

[Rad]

On one very steep down hill twistie run to work that is almost all blind turns due to the narrow lanes, switchbacks and the redwoods at the lane edge; I can often times smell a car at least 2 or three turns before I can catch up to it and see it…...Brakes, can't miss that smell:D

[JimVonBaden1]

Originally posted by crvalley
...until you've ridden through Trona, CA on the way to a Death Valley BMW Rally along Hwy 178...

It is a unique blend of sulfur and death that literally triggers a gag reflex. It doesn't help to breath through your nose, and of course the speed limit is 30 mph for what seems an eternity as you drive through this landmark of California...


Sounds like the Salton Sea! Ewwwww!

Speaking of town names, how about Skaggsville, MD? I wouldn't want to be a woman living there! :cry Though it smells OK.

Another town, Albany (what the H#ll is that Smell, Oregon! Papermill!

I actually don't mind the more natural smells, as long as they aren't too fresh. Like a road kill skunk has a strangly appealing and pungent odor. The stockades near El Paso texas can be a bit overpowering, but on a very cool and crisp morning actually smells ok.

LOL So my sinuses are shot, must have been all that white powder when I was young! NOT!!

JIm:brow

[dzimbric]

The vinyards of western MI in the fall, when the grape is at it's ripest just before harvest. It smell likes you just cracked open a new jar of Welchs Grape Jelly. You can smell the sugar in the air.

Try riding behind a mint train in Northern IN. The smell will gag, the oil from the mint is so strong it has to be stored in glass lined drums, no plastic.

In Starke Co. IN, the hemp capitol of the country during WWII, you can smell the hemp growing on a hot summer night.

Last but definitley not the least, a confined hog feeding operation. The building is totally enclosed with huge filters on the air supply fans and it will still knock your socks off. The employees have to wear full face respirators to enter the building.

[GeoffMiller]

What about temperature? Riding along, going through a valley, the temp drops about 20 degrees. A slight mist, almost a fog, a quick chill.....then the sun comes out and the heat feels wonderful................geoff

[Ironhorsecowboy]

Yes it is WIN3855. Bowater Inc; kraft, tmp, recycled and pulping products. That kraft process can get nasty.

[amiles]

Followed a motorist down from Pikes Peak that didn't read the sign about using a lower gear & not the brakes. Kept smelling the pungent perfume of burning brakes & wondering if it was me, then knowing that it wasn't , then wondering again. At the time (1977) there was a Ranger part way down that would tap hubcaps with his hand looking for overheated brakes. Burned his hand on that one for sure.

Camping at Return to Shiloh rally introduced me to "Eau de Pulp Plant" Stack on the plant was about a mile high I suppose to spread the stench to no aparent avail.

I enjoy the occasional windshield washer spritz as well, nicely scented I might add.

[docb]

Riding my R80RT back from the Rockies a number of years ago, I was on a two lane road going east out of Golden (I think) toward Kearney, NE and crested a small hill. The road dropped down between two feedlots---Cattle on the left and pigs on the right.
It was August, the temperature was in the mid nineties and the smell literally knocked me off the bike. Memorable!!

[Emoto]

Ok, I have ridden past various types of farms and they can be really rank, but one of the things that stands out as truly horrifyingly awful is being downwind of one of those buildings in PA where they grow mushrooms. The stench of rotting mushrooms is IMHO as bad, or worse, than any animal-based smell.

:uhoh

[oldcarkook]

Originally posted by Scootertrash
"I love the smell of napalm in the morning."
-----Apocalypse Now

exhaust fumes, burning brakes...
Great response and even better handle [Scootertrash] you got there!

[j-budimlya]

"Ok, I have ridden past various types of farms and they can be really rank, but one of the things that stands out as truly horrifyingly awful is being downwind of one of those buildings in PA where they grow mushrooms. The stench of rotting mushrooms is IMHO as bad, or worse, than any animal-based smell."

They grow muchrooms in "MANURE", so me thinks you were smelling the fresh manure pile..."the mushrooms come out the other end"

How about the smell of a car ahead that has removed his cat. converter....and, what ever happened to the sweet smell of the exhaust from a car running leaded gas????

Jim Bud

[Emoto]

Originally posted by j-budimlya
"Ok, I have ridden past various types of farms and they can be really rank, but one of the things that stands out as truly horrifyingly awful is being downwind of one of those buildings in PA where they grow mushrooms. The stench of rotting mushrooms is IMHO as bad, or worse, than any animal-based smell."

They grow muchrooms in "MANURE", so me thinks you were smelling the fresh manure pile..."the mushrooms come out the other end"


You would think that, but having literally shoveled more than my share of manure, I know that smell, and this odor may have had manure as one of it's elements, but it was far worse than either pig, cow, or horse manure. Leave a bunch of commercial mushrooms in a plastic bag until they are good and rotten and gooey and then smell that and you'll know what I mean. It is truly vile.

[JimVonBaden1]

Originally posted by Emoto
You would think that, but having literally shoveled more than my share of manure, I know that smell, and this odor may have had manure as one of it's elements, but it was far worse than either pig, cow, or horse manure. Leave a bunch of commercial mushrooms in a plastic bag until they are good and rotten and gooey and then smell that and you'll know what I mean. It is truly vile.

There is no "natural" odor worse than Chicken $h!t! It is so strong that as a fertilizer it will kill anything you plant if not mixed 1 to 10 and left to sit for 30 days!

Jim:brow

[Emoto]

Originally posted by JimVonBaden
There is no "natural" odor worse than Chicken $h!t! It is so strong that as a fertilizer it will kill anything you plant if not mixed 1 to 10 and left to sit for 30 days!

Jim:brow

An old GF had about a 8-10 chickens. I used to clean out the nest bowls and you are right that it is awful. Still, I think the rotting mushroom thing surpasses it. And I am not easily disturbed by odors. I know it is hard to imagine vegetables being that bad, but it is truly horrific.

[lorazepam]

Mushrooms are not a vegetable, but more in the fungus category.

[Grey Matter]

I ride by a bakery every morning & man if I miss breakfast my mouth starts watering. A bakery has got to be on of the best smells in the world.