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Nov 28, 2008 | 07:07 AM

#11

HD7585

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From: NJ

Good Job!..........This will stay with you and you won't get caught like that again........something good comes out of every close one we have

Nov 28, 2008 | 07:09 AM

#12

drummerart

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Nice save. Glad you're ok.

Nov 28, 2008 | 07:13 AM

#13

Boneyard Blue

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From: Maryland

Thanks for sharing Billdoe. Glad everything worked out for you.

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Originally Posted by Billdoe

First off ...Happy thanks giving everyone ... on my way back from girlfriends parents house for dinner tonight riding alone around 9-915pm temps were in the 40's moisture on roads it almost happen .. traveling down a mountain highway in the Sierra foothills where i live doing maybe 55 -60 mph just passing a car traveling other direction i start to see a car coming out a driveway behind a tree and some bushes onto the highway ..he waits for car approaching me to pass then pulls out in front of me and THEN seeing me and stops blocking my lane .. me figuring this could happen i start preparing for him to do this , i let off the gas and get ready to break .. he does it and pulls out im now skidding and sliding straight into his passenger rear door and trunk area .. from this point on everything was slow motion . im thinking OH F*** im either laying it down or im plowing into him .. i had maybe 150 feet max from the point he decided to pull out to try and do something .. all i remember is sliding sideways straighting it out sliding sideways again strasighting it out and one las slide sideways and in middle of slide i straightened it out and i missed his front bumper by inchs .. as i passed it i wish i wasnt still in a slide i would kicked his Grile in or something . as i was sliding pass his bumper avoiding a near impossible situation i was thinking to myself damn how did i not lay it down or miss hitting him .. being a new biker with 2200 miles under my belt on the street and a few decades on the dirt riding / racing motocross this was one of my best saves i have ever done i was rather impressed with how i handled it . if i was going 5-10 mph i doubt i would been walking away let alone Ride away from this ...sorry this is so long .. im juss thankful today to be here . Happy Thangiving everyone

Nov 28, 2008 | 07:14 AM

#14

scubaharley

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From: Mass.

Glad your OK, But how bad is the pucker mark in the seat.
(i'm still trying to fix mine from the last cager that did it to me)

Nov 28, 2008 | 08:52 AM

#15

carlo

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From: 50 Miles North N.Y.C.

AZZ holes out there all year long. But from now till first week of January HAPPY F--king NEW YEAR. We all got to watch out people ain't got there minds on driving they thinking about every other f--ing thing Xmass shopping cooking for there fam Office partys drinking when they don't drink the rest of the year. I hate this time of year for that reason Nov - Jan weather on the Bike or in the Cage Got to be on the look out for these Drivers. Glad you made out ok.