JDC
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posted August 26, 2009 05:09 PM
 Edited By: JDC on 27 Aug 2009 01:14
Cagers...
I had just finished up re-installing the turbo system again, with a new oil feed line and fitting, and set out to check for oil and water leaks. I live in a residential area, and had gone about 100 meters down our street, approaching a three way intersection, which I have right of way. It was 4:55 pm and the sun had cast a large shadow across the intersection and the two lanes I was approaching. I was about 30 yards from the intersection, centered in my lane...
When around the left corner came a hauling ass SUV, who, because of the speed, was 3/4 veered out into my lane, and as the SUV came out of the shadows, I could see the lady looking into her lap!
I didn't have enough time to hit the horn. I swerved right, hoping to miss her. She looked up just as she was about 10 feet from me. She ended up swiping my left mirror and smashing it. What great luck I was only going about 5 miles an hour.
By chance my back yard neighbors were right behind me in their vehicle. By the time I got off the bike, the neighbors were stopped and all their doors open, and the driver of the SUV was out of her car, yelling at me why was I in her lane, and that she had been on her way to her daughters softball game (late maybe?).
At that time the four neighbors, a grandma, grandpa and mother and father, all told her it was her fault, as she was ripping around the corner speeding, and in my lane almost completely. Coincidently a Police car then just came by, on their way somewhere else, and I asked them to call an accident report officer. Seeing me talk to the cop, the lady driver started to talk to the cop, and before I knew it, she was repeatedly yelling 'Fuck you" to the cop!
The neighbors and I were just watching this lady go off!
By the time the accident report cop showed up, the lady driver had calmed down, and we discovered her husband is a Sheriff in LA (my bro-in-law is also), and that she knew my brother in law. Funny coincidence.
She said she was a Harley rider. In the end she said she'd pay for any broken things on the bike, we had a good laugh and she took off.
I got on my bike, approached the tri-intersection and was just crossing the hidden cross walk line into the intersection, which was now fully covered in shadows, and with me having the right of way, when a black Ford explorer came from the same direction the lady had, and ran straight across my lane, turning into my direction of traffic, only seeing me at the last minute and then the guy waving at me an 'I'm Sorry!'.
Three strikes on a match. I went around the block and returned home. I am sipping on a gallon margarita as I type!
Cagers !
  
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eklipse636
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posted August 26, 2009 05:45 PM
Whoooa, I'd take my ass to the house asap after that! Great example of no matter how good a rider you are, you GOT to watch out for the other people!! Glas you and your bike survivedm DRINK UP
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icarus
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posted August 26, 2009 05:56 PM
Had similar incident with a sleepy truck driver while in my car. Going home from work at
11 pm he drifted into my lane and took the rear bumper off my car. We pull over, he says
that I tried to get over too early. HA! Call the cops, He gets nailed for being over the limit
on his drive time and gets cited for failure to maintain assured clear distance ahead.
The reason I wasn't on my bike is that it had rained prior to my leaving for work. I am
starting to rethink riding on the street altogether. Be safe...
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INTIMIDA2OR
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posted August 27, 2009 12:09 AM
Another reason why I think anything with more than 2 wheels should be outlawed 
Glad to hear alls you got was a smashed mirror!
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KikonZX14
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posted August 27, 2009 04:32 AM
quote:
Whoooa, I'd take my ass to the house asap after that! Great example of no matter how good a rider you are, you GOT to watch out for the other people!! Glas you and your bike survivedm DRINK UP
+1....DARN! That was close! Here in Chile, the problem is even worse since we don't have wide streets like in USA and cagers have no clue about how to deal with bikes on the streets. I also must recognize that there are way too many small motorbike riders (not really bikers but those guys who deliver express mail) that drive recklessly zig-zagging through the traffic (I must admit that sometimes I do it too.....  , specially on the traffic jams here in Santiago), which cause the cagers to get angry at all bike mounted people.
Glad you didn't get hurt.
Hugs,
David
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Feel the need for SPEED2007 ZX-14 Black with Red Flames (Helibars, Sliders, Yoshimura TRC Ti 4-2 Slip Ons, Fender Eliminator, Zero Gravity SR Windscreen, Custom Heel Guards , Speedohealer V4, Pazzo Levers -soon to come: Flies out / PCV w/A/T kit and later 16T sprocket)1990 Honda Steed (Japan model same as Shadow)1993 Kawasaki Vulcan EN 500 (gone as I trade it in for the ZX-14)Santiago, Chile, South America
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