Idiots are trying to kill me today! - Ducati.ms

Maximmagnum · Oct 5th, 2011, 3:44 pm

It was a wonderful, beautiful 68 degrees today, sunny and windless. Perfect weather for riding. So I am riding home for a late lunch, and a 18wheeler semi truck merges into my lane on I-70--and I mean he did it quickly...I was halfway up the back oh his trailer, and he came halfway into my lane in seconds. Luckily I had a large shoulder to use and he heard my horn and stopped merging.
So, then only 3 minutes later and a woman blabbing to her passenger turns left directly in front of me, and again, luckily she was at a stop before the turn so she was able to stop when only half way into my lane, and I could sneak around her in the right half of the lane.

I think I should drive back, I don't know if I could handle three close calls in a day--might turn out to be 2 close calls and a fatality.

hooptygoo · Oct 5th, 2011, 3:49 pm

Some days the force is not with you. I feel like that sometimes and those are the only days I actually feel nervous about riding.

**** · Oct 5th, 2011, 3:53 pm

I hear ya James. Try and plan ahead and see if you can try and predict some of this nonsense. Sometimes, I anticipate the worse and when doing so, I already know what to do.
Glad you made out okay tho. Shit.... You'd think they'd hear your bikes rev's and not need the horn!

Maximmagnum · Oct 5th, 2011, 4:00 pm

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I hear ya James. Try and plan ahead and see if you can try and predict some of this nonsense. Sometimes, I anticipate the worse and when doing so, I already know what to do.
Glad you made out okay tho. Shit.... You'd think they'd hear your bikes rev's and not need the horn!

Well, luckily both times I was driving defensively, and that kept me ok. The second time, if I wasn't paying attention, I would have been over that ladies hood, because I was in the left of the lane, but I saw her start to turn and turned right as I hit the brakes. If she had gone all out, I don't know that it would have mattered (in which case, it would have been better to turn left behind her...like they teach in MSF class--but honestly, I didn't think of that, I just reacted).

cts · Oct 5th, 2011, 4:09 pm

i get nearly killed twice a day in athens if i am lucky...some days its even worse...so consider yourself safe out there my friend!!

keep your eyes open and your senses to the max maxi!!!glad you are ok man!!

phantomfighter · Oct 5th, 2011, 6:17 pm

You should try commuting through central london, UK. I have learnt to be like water when riding, just going my own pace, flowing through the gaps in the traffic. Moving to another lane/position when a car, bus, van, pedestrian takes up my space. obviously I have my Stebel air horn fitted to remind the really stupid!

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samw5 · Oct 5th, 2011, 6:22 pm

Middle finger is your best friend!

ltsnipe · Oct 5th, 2011, 10:33 pm

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Middle finger is your best friend!

Ya, until you realize the person driving is blind lol :P

FlyingQ · Oct 5th, 2011, 11:16 pm

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Originally Posted by ltsnipe

Ya, until you realize the person driving is blind lol :P

Hahaha. Very good.

JerryXt · Oct 6th, 2011, 4:49 am

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Originally Posted by phantomfighter

You should try commuting through central london, UK...

London is easy. Relaxed. I enjoy my morning and evening commutes on the monnie or the KTM.

Compared with drivers in towns up norf, London drivers are reasonably aware.