Accident on the freeway with pic

[jtmcculloch]

After 39 years of straping things onto the back of a motorcycle I finally lost a load from my bike on the freeway.
I was on the way to my step-grandsons birthday party.
I had his present, card, my jacket with my camera in the pocket strapped to the rear luggage rack. I was in a freeway construction area when I lost my load.
I got off at the next exit, turned around, had to go about 5 miles back to be able to get back on again. the freeway had concrete barriars lining the freeway when the construction is. The present and card were gone. the jacket with camera where still there.
Heres the pic of the camera:

Damm I loved that camera
Canon PowerShot A630

 

[Larry D]

Bummer !!

At least it was just material things that are easily replaced and not you.

 

[Plasterdog]

Better the camera than you!

 

[kerrfunk]

that stinks

I rode home from the hardware store on Saturday with my new purchase of a slow-closing toilet seat, tied with twine to the back of my 550.

After about 5 miles it flew off. I was able to make a u-turn within a hundred yards or so (safely... country highway) and park the bike, run across the road and get my purchase before it got run over. it was close, but we made it.

slow-closing toilet seat now installed... it's pretty cool.

 

[Buffalo Bill]

that stinks

I rode home from the hardware store on Saturday with my new purchase of a slow-closing toilet seat, tied with twine to the back of my 550.

After about 5 miles it flew off. I was able to make a u-turn within a hundred yards or so (safely... country highway) and park the bike, run across the road and get my purchase before it got run over. it was close, but we made it.

slow-closing toilet seat now installed... it's pretty cool.

Wow! I bet you're happy nobody used it before you got back!

 

[dpep]

Heres the pic of the camera:

Damm I loved that camera
Canon PowerShot A630

A little JB and some duct tape...she'll be good as new.

 

[Redman]

JT,

Did you find the memory card ?

I have similar pictures of my Cannon 560, although not as bad condition as yours. I dropped the camera off bike at 35mph. Well, more specifiaccly the strap got caught on something and I ended up throwing the camera up and over my shoulder. I saw it (in mirror) bounce and spinn about 4 times before it went out of sight off side of road. Went back and found camera - case was popped open, circuit boards exposed and hanging loose. I pushed the circuit board back in place, and snapped the case halfs back together. Batterys and memory card were missing, so I looked again and found them. Is banged up on 4 corners, have to tape the battery compartment closed, but have used it reliably for the 12 months since then.

So my Cannon PowerShot survived being banged around. Looks like yours was run over.

PlaneCrazy Steve took the picture of my camera for me.

.

 

[jtmcculloch]

Yes - it was run over.
The camera was in a zipped up pocket in my jacket so all parts are there.

As far as the jacket goes - it has some road rash and is dirty but nothing a good wash won't fix. it was an old "First Gear" jacket

Bought a replacement camera last night.
Canon PowerShot SX110is
9 mega pixal
10x power optical zoom
4x digital zoom
total 40X zoom

 

[earlfor]

They just dont make cameras like they used to. Remember when a camera was a steel box and weighed 5 lbs. A couple of cars hitting one didnt do a thing except dent the cars. Damn plastic crap.

Earl

 

[Agemax]

They just dont make cameras like they used to. Remember when a camera was a steel box and weighed 5 lbs. A couple of cars hitting one didnt do a thing except dent the cars. Damn plastic crap.

Earl

showing your age now earl, was it an old bakalite thing with gunpowder for a flash? lol

 

[Gravity Tester]

Ive always wanted to see the inside of a power-shot Thanks.

Can I ask why your First Gear Jacket was tied to your bike & not being worn ?

Pat

 

[Colorado85gs550]

what did your jacket look like?

 

[Zooks]

Ive always wanted to see the inside of a power-shot Thanks.

Can I ask why your First Gear Jacket was tied to your bike & not being worn ?

Pat

Lucky he wasn't wearing it, didn't you hear what he said - IT GOT RUN OVER!!!

 

[journerr]

hahaha Zooks lol

..... you guys make me chuckle

 

[scrapper]

Should have bought that camera from best buy with a warrente. They will replace it when you drop it. :-s

 

[St?rke]

That'll buff out.

 

[Guest]

Damm I loved that camera
Canon PowerShot A630

Try TheCanonResources.com, there's a thread on A630 complete restoration...

 

[Guest]

That reminds me of one of the now funny, not-so-funny-then luggage rack losses I had was when I was heading home from the Kawasaki shop I worked for, in San Francisco, for many years, with a plastic grocery bag containing a couple of lobsters that my boss gifted me, knowing I was from New England originally. I got on the freeway heading to the Bay Bridge, and I heard this flappity, flapitty, FLAP, looked in the rear view, the tragedy flickered in the mirror-GONE!! Poor little buggers, all the way from cold, friendly NE waters, only to get squashed in San Francisco!!