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Old Jul 17, 2011 | 09:17 PM
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4 lane road doin about 60 some guy a couple hundred feet in front of me on a Dyna ran right off the road and went *** over elbows in the dirt. By the time I got pulled over in a safe place I see him standing up, went back to help get the bike back on the road and see if it's rideable and if he can ride it. He wasn't hurt, when I asked him why he went off the road ( I thought he might have gotten a flat) he said he was watching me in his mirror when the road turned and he didn't. There are some real riders out there!
 
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Old Jul 17, 2011 | 09:21 PM
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Old Jul 17, 2011 | 09:22 PM
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...he said he was watching me in his mirror when the road turned and he didn't.
Wow, I can't fathom why people want to look everywhere but where they are going. I bet he felt pretty stupid although the fact that he admitted it makes me think his pride couldn't be bruised further.
 
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Old Jul 17, 2011 | 09:25 PM
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WTF! Lot's of knuckle heads...
 
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Old Jul 17, 2011 | 09:27 PM
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What a compliment!
 
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Old Jul 17, 2011 | 09:28 PM
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"A man's gotta know his limitations!" .... Dirty Harry
 
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Old Jul 17, 2011 | 09:33 PM
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Was he able to ride away . . . was the bike serviceable? Damage?
 
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living in the past instead of working on the future. That has gotta be the stupidest **** I have heard in at least 36 hours, efin dumbass.
 
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Sheet happens, even to the best of us. He's lucky the turn wasn't to the right and he plowed into a minivan!
 
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Was he able to ride away . . . was the bike serviceable? Damage?
It was all skuffed up, he was going to ride it. He was lucky it wasn't boulders or a cliff, just dirt
 
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