That sorta happened to me last night on Colerain (for the locals) but was in my blazer. Idiot was doing a U-Turn coming from the opposite direction on a 4-lane road and he couldn't make the U-turn so he stopped broadside and was blocking my 2 lanes. I swerved left which put me going headon in opposing traffic... I couldn't swerve back right into my original lanes because of the concrete curb/median, so I had to do a U-turn in the opposing lanes going the wrong way. Had to look crazy for those that saw it. If I were on a bike it woulda been all bad.
He stayed in the throttle after the close call to get to the nearest bathroom to clean out his pants...........
Hold up ... you were wearing your leathers watching that? I know it's winter on 8-mile, but, c'mon now ... you wear your leathers while playing racing video games. Not taking a break from the pron sites.
WOW that was close! That is one lucky SOB. He needs to take it to the track or there is not much hope for him.
You get that way living in Dallas. Hell, I'm scared in my F150 quite frequently. Had a near miss from a Dallas-haired bimbette in a Beemer on her cellphone Saturday over in Colleyville. B!+ch shot ME a freaking dirty look as I went by. Hell, ask Panthercity and his Stella about traffic around here...
You never know, sometimes the big guy upstairs helps you out:up:....i got lucky one time, that exact thing happened to me, only I hit the van that pulled out, no brakes, SMACK! I was outta the hospital in about 24hrs... either way though, ridding like that is plain Russian Roulette, with maybe a few extra bullets in the gun...
now don't go making overstatements. take this with a grain of salt, but just because other people are idiots, doesn't mean it's not ok to ride on the street. (unless you stated that because you only drive like an idiot when on the street). that's the only reason i can think of from that video to state what you (and a few others) did. you drive/ride on the street you're just gonna have to watch out for things like that. if you keep it at a reasonable pace where you always have an out for things like that you'll have less risk of something going wrong than on the track, it's just one of those risk/reward things. people pull out in front of people. people make mistakes. bad things happen. the only thing to really be learned from that video is that riding like a donkey on the street exponentially decreases your likelihood of surviving other people's (or your own) stupid moves.
I met a guy at the gap that had a prosthetic leg from a similarly described crash. He said he was doing 120-130 and an old lady pulled out in front of him. I guess if you go over the hood of the car, it mostly messes up your lower body.
Precision Driving. :up: Had a good angle, didn't run off the road, hardly any recovery at all. Riding on the street you gotta be ready for anything and you have to keep your cool. The guy gets an A+ from me.
that's like giving a student an A+ for getting one right answer on the whole test. but damn...answered that one real good. :down:
The driver of that van is just as lucky as they guy on the bike Had irresistible force met with immovable object that and it'd be at least 2 DOA, depending on how many people were in the van. Crickey.
experience at what? driving like a donkey on a bike on a public road. you're gonna get far with that one...
i'm down with that, bob. i was against him saying the guy (presumably overall) got an A+ from what he saw in the video. i saw 99% donkey (driving like one at least) then 1% nice evasive move that never scored me a A+ on a test.
