I think you're wrong. I was more than a car lenght per 10 miles per hour which is the legal distance in my state. When you skid your are not slowing down. Therefore, the gap closed for my braking to slow me down when the tire let loose. At that time it was smash the back, or manuver around the car. In which case I choose to go around, and that was sealed by an on coming car. So my right peg nipped his bumper.

Thanks for the concern. I am glad I am okay also, but I was not following to close. I have to chalk this up to bad luck. Following to close would have ended with me in the center of his automobile.

 

Took awhile for someone to write it. I agree he is at fault. You did not have room to safely stop. Like the others --I am glad your alright.

 

Hey, man. Did I ever say it wasn't my fault? No.

 

With all due respect, none of the major tire mfgs use mold release agents anymore. The industry standard recommendation is to take it easy for a 100 miles until the rider is familiar with the characteristics of the new tire. Yes, they grip better when scuffed in but the wives tale of mold release agents is just that.

 

Sounds like a good save to me. Let the ins company work it out but be sure and tell them what you posted here.

 

Thank you. Seems people have selective reading. I have ridden these tires for 250+ miles at least. Maybe up to 600.
Still chalking it up to bad luck, or possibly the Lyndall pads I have in them. I never had a lock up with the OEM pads. Might just buy some OEMs, and switch them out.

 

Well, OK, blame it on someone else leaking some imaginary fluid; minimize what actually happened (nipped?), if you must, but too bad you didn't learn from this.

As a fellow rider, who has been down @ 55 mph, I urge you to reconsider your defensive posturing and really SEE what actually took place: Having exited the freeway, due to slow, heavy traffic, you tried to make better time in dense stop-and-go city traffic. Perhaps your frustration pushed you to ride more aggressively than you could handle?

Pilot error.

Please reconsider your point of view, for your own sake, if not for others. You might come away from this a better, safer rider.

Edit to add: "Still chalking it up to bad luck, or possibly the Lyndall pads I have in them. I never had a lock up with the OEM pads. Might just buy some OEMs, and switch them out."

Oh man.

 

Glad your OK, I had something similiar happen when a truck in front of me started leaking diesel fuel. I was lucky and got stopped before I slid out of control. Hope that the insurance company gets this guy for fraud on the claim that he was pushed intop a vehicle in front.

 

Dude, I learned I learned that some people are great keyboard quarterbacks. I admit guilt by saying I hit the guy. I just know that I did nothing different than any other ride. I kept the recommended distance. Why do you insist that I was doing something wrong, and accidents aren't accidents?
I don't understand your intention to bash me, scare me, or whatever it is that happened.
If you cannot read and discuss an issue without placing blame.. I don't know. I have a right to buy whatever brake pad I want, and makes me feel comfortable. Also it very well could be that the pads are not good with my rotors. Could it really have been some oil on the roadway? Or is it really imaginary. If you can tell from your keyboard. Why aren't you solving the worlds problems? You are more gifted than Jesus Christ himself.

For one. You can't even see that I did a hell of a job avoiding an even worse accident. I didn't freeze up like the guy who drove off the cliff, or many other people who just screw the pooch and take what is coming. I had a mishap, and I made the best of what was happening the best I could. Despite what caused it, when I was in it. I tried to save myself, and almost did. If there wasn't a car in the on coming lane, I would have missed the car.

If you cannot realize that accidents happen even to the most prepared, safety conscience people. Then I don't know what to say.

All I can say is thanks for your concern, but don't treat me like a punk kid. I am a grown man, and I don't appreciate the patronizing of my actions, and I don't like the way you charge me guilt with your assumptions when I have told you the entire story. Accept that accidents happen. If I were to have been tailgating and slammed my rear break. I would admit it.


When the guy I hit told the police officer that he was watching me slow down. The rider wasn't tailgating me, but then the bike just went out from under him, and he regained control and tried to miss me, but there was a car in the on coming lane. He had no choice, but to stay his course. I guess he is a liar also.

 

You hit him from behind, your fault by law, it sucks. The bumper cover will pop back into place in a few seconds and if the scratches are shallow they will buff out. If you can put your nail in the scratch it will need to be painted. No way you pushed him into the vehicle in front of him, his front damage is from road debris, most likely rocks being kicked up over time into his front bumper cover. My daughter bumper a post in a parking lot, don't ask, I popped the bumper cover back in and replaced the plastic rivet on the inner wheel well in under a minute. It sounds like the guy wants a few free repairs to the front bumper cover on your tab.