I can laugh it off NOW but only because nothing bad happened. On the other hand, I will count myself as being lucky. If the egg hits me in the face I might have lost the ability to see for a couple seconds and that could have caused a serious accident. Eggs are quite slimy when broken. If a raw egg were to cover enough of a tire and the rider was going around a sharp turn, quite possible for the tire to slip out from lack of traction. I actually experienced that very thing as kid once although it was because I rode over a patch of oil on the road ( while going around a turn on a downhill.. ...ouch! ).

Anyway, I caulked it all up to a new learning experience. One of the things I've learned is that it is almost impossible to I.D. a car tag WHILE the car is passing ( even if you have the tag illuminated with a bright lamp ). Tonight I experimented with my riding torch and discovered that it actually works very well at illuminating a rear tag. The problem is that when the vehicle is over 50 feet away reading the tag is very, very hard to see ( and I was just looking at the tags of parked cars. ) Knowing this I might as well forget about trying to ID a tag on a moving vehicle UNLESS the car is stopped and I'm close enough to read it.

While pondering these things it brought to mind something that I experienced a couple weeks ago; I was sitting in my work vehicle at a 7-11 convenience store when a car pulled up next to me with strange devices mounted to both the hood and rear trunk. Being curious I asked the driver what the things were on his car. Turns out they were devices for reading vehicle VIN codes at a distance. ( Private contractor working for the DMV ). Anyway, this got me thinking; "Wouldn't it be nice to have something like that hooked up on your bike and linked up to your Smart Phone via Bluetooth"?

Now before someone says, "Not going to happen because the contractors have special permission to access the DMV network". True, but the average person wouldn't need the info that links the VIN to the DMV, you just need the VIN and a time stamp. If someone runs you off the road in a car you could relay the VIN information to the police ( with your visual I.D. of the car ) and let them do their thing. Hey, it could work! I don't know about anyone else but I'd be willing to pay a couple hundred bucks for a compact set-up that could mount on a bike and link with my phone. Money to be made by someone who markets it first ( That is if someone doesn't already sell something like this. )