Posted by Timberwoof on October 27, 2007, 12:18 am
> Oh yeah, I just wanted to add... I'll bet you just increased your
> limit tonight.
Heh. Well, maybe I know now that my limit is further out than I thought
it was, which is a good thing... but but the cop fender-push maneuver is
still outside my limits. Safeword! Safeword! Where's the DM?! Safeword!
}: ) ;-)
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Posted by Robert Bolton on October 27, 2007, 1:38 am
.....
> One car had been signalling to change lanes right from 1 to 2, but there
> was no place to go, so I passed anyway. Did I sense the car steering
> toward me? I dunno; maybe I accelerated, but it ended up trying to do
> that cop maneuver on me: hit my left saddlebag, pushing me into the #2
> lane. Unfortunately, the front of the bike kissed a pickup truck in the
> #2 lane, which pushed my front wheel to the left. So my bike was going
> in all kinds of directions; I don't remember the details. I was way the
> hell out of my comfortable limits. I felt out of control, but I managed
> to keep it upright. It was one of those Zen moments like when I'm
> playing hockey and exactly the right movement happens without conscious
> thought and I make the save. I made the save on this one...
> I signalled left, pulled into the breakdown lane, and put the bike on
> its side stand. The offending car followed me and parked. No one was
> hurt and we agreed to exchange information. I'll inspect the bike fully
> in daylight tomorrow.
> I was taught that a turn signal is a request for permission to change
> lanes. In this case it was a signal of intent to change lanes, so get
> out of the way! Do I allow someone who's got their signal on for a while
> to prevent me passing? Probably a toot of the horn or a flash of the
> brights would have been appropriate.
> But the fact remains that the car hit the back end of my bike with its
> front fender. Clearly she did not look when making the change. Sigh.
> Gotta watch out for the idiots.
....
Yeow. I'm glad you made it out of there in one piece. Did the two of you
have a discussion about what happened? I'm interested in the driver's
perspective of what occurred. It's the potential of having that happen to
me that makes me leery of lane splitting.
Robert
Posted by Jeff Mayner on October 27, 2007, 2:38 am
Timberwoof wrote:
>> Oh yeah, I just wanted to add... I'll bet you just increased your
>> limit tonight.
> Heh. Well, maybe I know now that my limit is further out than I
> thought it was, which is a good thing... but but the cop fender-push
> maneuver is still outside my limits. Safeword! Safeword! Where's the
> DM?! Safeword! }: ) ;-)
Miss Rahee!
Posted by Jim S. on October 27, 2007, 4:31 pm
I managed
> to keep it upright.
Yikes.
Now don't forget to watch more re-runs of Kung Fu.
Glad to see you're writing about this from home and not from a hospital bed
or...
Jim
Posted by Timberwoof on October 27, 2007, 6:23 pm
> I managed
> > to keep it upright.
>
> Yikes.
>
> Now don't forget to watch more re-runs of Kung Fu.
> Glad to see you're writing about this from home and not from a hospital bed
> or...
> Jim
:)
I don't think they have DSL in the Undiscovered Country.
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