RE: RIP- "Lady Fazer"
May 23, 2012 at 10:32 am
(This post was last modified: May 23, 2012 at 10:33 am by Whateverist.)
Oh, then I didn't read it carefully enough. I thought it was you who had been hit. Glad to hear otherwise.
I'm having a hard time visualizing exactly what happened. Was the driver ahead of your bike causing the bike to hit him from behind? Or did the driver make a u turn from the opposite lane directly into the bike?
It is very hard to account for everything that can go wrong but people will do stupid things of course. Worse, so do the wildlife. I might have already told you the story of a friend of mine who was hit from the side by a deer crashing out of the woods and directly into his Honda Goldwing. It through him and his girlfriend off the bike but luckily did not total the bike. I was also hit once on my motorcycle doing what I swore I'd never do, riding in commute traffic on busy streets. The other guy's fault entirely but of course that is little comfort. As riders we like to think we are anticipating everything that can go wrong. He was sitting at a stop sign on two laner when I passed him in thick traffic on a 4 laner. I was looking to see his face but shadows and light through trees made that impossible. I was already in front of him when I saw him move. I sped up enough not to be hit directly but he clipped the back end of my bike. It was totaled but I was fine. I laid it down, pulled my under leg out in time and just skidded down the road behind it. I jumped up immediately to check traffic from behind but everyone stopped.
I'm having a hard time visualizing exactly what happened. Was the driver ahead of your bike causing the bike to hit him from behind? Or did the driver make a u turn from the opposite lane directly into the bike?
It is very hard to account for everything that can go wrong but people will do stupid things of course. Worse, so do the wildlife. I might have already told you the story of a friend of mine who was hit from the side by a deer crashing out of the woods and directly into his Honda Goldwing. It through him and his girlfriend off the bike but luckily did not total the bike. I was also hit once on my motorcycle doing what I swore I'd never do, riding in commute traffic on busy streets. The other guy's fault entirely but of course that is little comfort. As riders we like to think we are anticipating everything that can go wrong. He was sitting at a stop sign on two laner when I passed him in thick traffic on a 4 laner. I was looking to see his face but shadows and light through trees made that impossible. I was already in front of him when I saw him move. I sped up enough not to be hit directly but he clipped the back end of my bike. It was totaled but I was fine. I laid it down, pulled my under leg out in time and just skidded down the road behind it. I jumped up immediately to check traffic from behind but everyone stopped.
