Last night I took my daughter (11) to practice on the bike. We left our house on a back country road here in central PA. Not far from the house is a blind corner that I have been traveling for over 25 years and I know that people have a tendency to cross the center line when making the turn. Well I slowed up a bit, hugged the inside of the corner and it's a good thing I did. Coming the other direction was an 18 wheeler who obviously wasn't paying attention. He was almost completely on my side of the road coming right at us. I hit the rear brake and sort dirt tracked between him and the enbankment on my left. I guess instinct just kicked in and I didn't really think much about it until about a mile down the road. Then my heart started pounding and I started thinking about the fact that I had my daughter with me. She was a trooper and loves to ride. She didn't really say too much, other than "that guy was a jerk".

Maybe all those years of Moto-X and dirt track racing helped.

Be safe everyone and WATCH OUT FOR "JERK" COMING AT YOU!!!

 

Glad u are OK after something like that !

 

Wow - a close one! Glad you instincts took over and you made it through OK

 

Glad is all well now and you can ride another day. Very happy to hear nobody was hurt.

 

It is getting horriable for motorcylist on the roads!!! I had 3 close callswithin a 2 hour period last week!! 1st a guy turned from left lane into my lane to make the same right turn I was and i could see he only missed me by inches and then proceeded to follow that close so I stopped in the middle of the road and let him have a piece of my mind!! (Other cagers even backed me up by yelling at the idoit too!!!). I then parked in walmart and as I was leaving a lady got in her SUV and no sonner then she sat down the phone was out!! She knew I was there as she saw me start my bike BUT I hada feeling and didnt back out of my spot all the way and sure enough she backed out never looking for me or behind her for that matter!! Next I had to go to the drug store and proceeded to pull in the lot and a lady backed out of her spot and started heading right toward me in my lane of traffic. I had nowhere to go as I didnt want to go left she saw me at last second and swung left in a hurry (I think she was digging for the phone in her purse as well but I couldnt see very well as I was looking for a route of escape as well!!! I went home sat on the porch and drank the better half of the six pack I just purchased at saud Drug store and caled it a day on the scooter!! Its getting worse every year and it will not get better until something is done with cell phone usage and motorcycle awareness!!!!

 

Thanks guys, I had a street bike a number of years ago and only in the last month I have resumed street riding. I love the bike! HATE THE IDIOTS! Just today on my way to work I was tailgated by a ten wheel dump truck. Pi$$ed me off, but what do you do.

Be safe everyone...

 

I've had the urge to kick a couple rear view mirrors off of cars that just pulled right out in front of me. I've seen the negative comments on here about that, but one day I may score my first mirror kill I've always tried to see things from the others point of view, but when I put myself in some of their places I just feel plain stupid...

 

Glad you and your daughter are okay. I have two little girls. 10 and 7. They always want to ride with me on the bike. But I don't leave the neighborhood with them on the bike. I have been riding for 21 years, and have no worries about my driving skills, it is the other idiots I fear. When I am alone, it isn't a worry, but if something was to happen to my little girls, I would litterally kill sombody. People in cages just don't seem to give a **** about you, or anyone else for that matter. Their busy on the phone, or playing with the radio, or appling makeup. WTF Get ready at home. Make calls there, you aren't that f ing important that you can't make a call when you arrive at your destination. AAGGHH!! I need a pill now.[:@]

 

carry my wife/daught/grand kids. wow. know how ya feel