Motorcycle Accident On The Way To Work This Morning

[matcom]

not me. passed one. Dudes bike was upright but pointing the wrong way in the lane. He was standing with his pants/leg pretty torn up. He was bullshit.

My guess is he got run off the road and the car kept going (no other cars except for a police cruiser there). Bunch of people standing around.

So glad the guy appeared ok. Was on my bike and kept extra cautious all the way to work.

It's dangerous out there people. Watch them cagers you here?

[guitar man]

1. I hope he's ok

I've been there, done that. Sometimes you don't realize how hard you actually hit until you try to get out of bed the next morning :(

I had a guy try to run up my ass this morning. I was on a stretch of 2 lane, 45 mph speed limit and I hit the reserve on my fuel tank. Of course, the bike slowed down while I was switching from main to reserve and waiting for it to pick the fuel up again,so this asshole runs right up on my ass and blows the horn.I bet he was less than a foot from my tail light at one point. :grr:

I got it picked up and running again and we came to a stop sign about 1/2 mile or so up the road. I took the opportunity to get off the bike and go back and have a "conversation" with the cager about his rude driving habits. :evilgrin:

[ThomWV]

2. A week and a half ago my son saw a motorcyclist killed by an asshole driver

In Morgantown, at an intersection between a local road and an Interstate I-68, a fellow riding a bike with his wife on the back was just plain nailed by a lady in a car that made a left hand turn directly into him as the car attempted to cross the bikes lane to get on a on-ramp. Last weekend I was told by folks who knew the biker that he was DOA at WVU Med Center but that his wife (mother of 2) was released 5 days later. I was told 'the lady in the car said she never saw him until she hit him'.

Same story, a thousand times. It makes me so sick to hear it - it makes me mad as the blazing pits of hell too.

This may sound harsh, it may reek of hubris, but I say you can always see it coming. You can look in their god damned eyes and just know the asshole does not see you; doesn't make a god damned bit of difference about that bright orange shirt you're wearing, doesn't make a god damned bit of difference about that screaming loud exhaust you put on there, doesn't make a god damned bit of difference that you've got a head light burning with the intensity of a small star. The filthy bastards are living in their own world and will run over you and your motorcycle with no more concern than they show when swatting a fly. The only defense you have is that you pay constant attention to every one of those brain-dead mother fuckers. You simply have to be ever ready for the stupidest thing they can do next - because that is exactly what's going to happen. And while you're lieing there crushed and bleeding they will be worried about the scratches in their paint.

I hope they throw that woman that hit the biker in prison for the rest of her worthless life - and I know full well that at most she will pay a small fine and maybe lose her license for a little while. It fries my ass; more than you know.

[HamstersFromHell]

3. I have always said that

having to ride a motorcycle for one year should be a requirement for obtaining a license to drive a car.

Once you've been a target of distracted cagers, you never forget the lesson. You will drive much more aware of what's going on around you.