Can you smell that smell?

[brimo]

Riding through the forest on a hot day and you dip down into a valley (usually by a waterway) where a fruit bat colony is roosting, not a disgusting smell, just distinctive.
Brings back instant memories of living in the tropics.

[CairnsDuc]

The main Road into the City leads past the largest Sewage treatment plant in town, and then 10 seconds after that you hit the main rubbish dump.

Smell so strong you can taste it!  

The smell from the the Sewage works first thing in the morning is just Eye Watering  

[vampire]

favorite,, i don't like to smell anything,, except sea breeze maybe!!
i hate fish market at the end of the auctions .. and fresh cut grass! makes me sneeze

[seevtsaab]

+1 on all the smells listed.
Smoking is bad bad bad but I do enjoy a surreptitious whiff now and again.

I do the country road commute and hit many you listed.

Woodstoves and burning brushpiles.

[z0mb1e_DUC]

got behind a guy the other day puffing on a cigar in his Jeep.  Knew what he was doing before I actually saw it.  Amazing how much you can pick up.

[brent9632]

Some of my native smells in the Coastal GA area include Paper mills and Swamp. which are present 90% of the time blocking any pleasent smells from invading your nostrils.

[KnightofNi]

i pass a bakery every day. that smell is amazing, esp combined with theburger joint right next to it.

however, if it has rained, i can smell the water treatment facility over either of those 2.

in winter i dont' smell much unless i'm behind someone running rich, we are stopped in traffic and someone is smoking, or if i get stuck behind the 18 wheelers hauling garbage out of philly. i can usually smell the snow though. before it starts there is a certain aroma, same thing with rain actually.
i love springtime because the smells get better. fresh mulch, flowers, fresh cut grass...a lot of them make my eyes water and i start sneezing. go allergies

one route into the city goes by the zoo. i always know it's springtime when i can smell the zoo from the hwy.

[Desmostro]

Ahh, yes. Low tide.

The most memorable? I was on my way to class one day last summer and rode into a "fog bank."

Turns out the local landfill had had a 3-alarm fire and I was riding into a giant cloud of plastic smoke. 

omg. that's bad.

[DarkDucati]

Last week early AM and only a double shot of espresso in me, riding along the delta from East Bay to Sacramento, long stretches of fields and not much else, and twice in different spots I was suddenly hit with a blast of cooking bacon smell...mmm  . Cruel, but nice.

In general, when starting my commute back home from San Francisco, coming up the ramp and onto the Bay Bridge, I generally go by at least 2-4 cars that have a blast of dope smoke pouring out the window.  Nice smell, but geez, people can't even wait to get home before they blaze one up.  Phones, iPods, eating, radios, books, makeup, etc. are already bad enough.  Ah well, maybe they're less likely to get road rage that way. 

[caboteria]

I like the smell of Klotz when I pull up to a red light.  Don't smell it when I'm riding, or when I'm standing still, but it seems to catch up to me when I'm slowing to a stop.

[DLD - Ducati Larry Dude]

Last Saturday I rode my new 1100S Monster to Bear Mountain Bridge and back home.  Along my ride on US 9W running parallel to the Hudson River, I didn't experience a feast or odors for my nose.  But when we got home and my bike was parked for the night I experienced that 'new bike' smell for the first time in my life.    WOW!

Yesterday we rode to Sussex County NJ, where I got to feast upon fresh New Jersey Air (no that's not an oxymoron).  I crossed the Delaware River on Dingman's Bridge into PA.  Once in PA I smelled that PA grass in the eastern Poconos.  There is something about PA grass that has a sweet smell in the Summer.  On my loop home on I-84 I smelled someone burning wood or starting an early campfire.  As I recrossed the Delaware river on I-84 I could smell the forthcoming of Rain.  (I had no rain gear with me)  The clouds were gathering all day and the sun was not seen for a few hours.  When we arrived home I once again could sample that 'new bike' smell.

RidnDucati

[ducatiz]

i rode thru jerome, az a few years ago (well, maybe about 10) and the combination of the forest and the old town and the harleys was pretty nice.  i was on a borrowed monster and got at least a couple of thumbs-up from the locals (almost all bikers)

[1KDS]

Every once in a while I can smell a woman's perfume when riding behind a car,  must have way too much on.  i smell weed smoke occasionally, I always try to pull up next to them and stare at them to make them paranoid, then speed away before they accidentally run me off the road. 

[somegirl]

Love going by bakeries.

Smelling weed on the freeway is always a little disconcerting.

[metallimonster]

Every once in a while I can smell a woman's perfume when riding behind a car,  must have way too much on.  i smell weed smoke occasionally, I always try to pull up next to them and stare at them to make them paranoid, then speed away before they accidentally run me off the road. 

I love messing with high people!!  Although about a month ago I was behind an SUV with dark tint and big rims and smelled and saw smoke pouring out the window.  I was expecting a young dude when I pulled up next to him and it the dude was in his 60s with a suit on.  Kind of ridiculous to see him puffing on a big fat blunt.