I always heard it was a matter of when and not if you would have to lay your bike down.  I am now in the when column.  How can they not see us???  

I was traveling a straight road and someone in a pickup turned left in front of me to get to his driveway.   If he would have kept going, I might have been able to get around him.  When he did see me, he decided to stop the truck in my lane.  I had no choice but to lay the bike down - fortunately it was NOT my 'new' Savage!  

The bike came to rest just as it slid up to his truck.  Slight dent on his quarter panel; the bike was not so lucky.   I am sure the Insurance company will total it and screw me out of what it would take to fix it up.

I was able to walk away with minor bruising and a fair amount of road rash.  

Watch for them because they sure are not watching out for you!

dk

Too bad to read about it

Did you smack the a$$hole????

I'm glad you could walk away from that, but keep riding, man

Best,

RW

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Real sorry to hear about your forced slide, but glad you are reasonably okay.  Hope you will pursue his insurance company forcefully.  Have been in more than a few of those kinds of crashes myself and they do take a toll on the body.

Recently, I installed one of those headlight flashers and it seems to help people judge the distance and speed of the motorcycle a little better.  However, there are still far too many folks who simply drive in never never land.

Good luck and ride safe.

glad you're pretty okay. Keep ridin' and good luck with the insurance.

k

Sorry to hear your crash! But glad to see you walk away fron it. Just wondering, is this during daytime?? If it is daytime, is your highbeam on? Would that idiot see you better then? My MSF instructor told me to ride with the highbeam on during daytime, it seemed to get other drivers when I'm riding. Hope you get another bike and ride again soon.

SavageDude

I am so glad you're all right.  

You know what riders need?  We need someone to invent a collapsible tire iron.  Small enough to fit in the smallest saddlebag.  When something like this happens, you take it out, expand it to full size, and smack the other driver in the head with it.  

As far as how they can not see us, I swear it doesn't matter if they do see us.  Here's a screwed up thing that it never occurred to me to watch out for -- I'm heading down a busy road, and it's close to rush hour so I'm in the middle of a long line of cars (plenty in front, and plenty behind).  There's a guy stopped in the oncoming lane, waiting (and waiting, and waiting) for a break so he can make a left.  The car in front of me passes through the intersection, and the guy waiting guns it through his left turn, right in front of me.  I stop short, locking the wheels, and barely miss hitting him.  If he'd taken the turn any slower, I would have hit him.  

And I was in my car.

Sometimes they see you just fine -- they just get impatient and figure they'll make you stop.

Ride safe, everyone.  And remember the first rule of riding: everyone's stupid except you.

I feel for you brother. It's such a surreal feeling after you've been hit, isn't it.  I was just rear ended on Saturday and walked away from it.  First time in 36 years a car has hit me.

Glad you didn't get hurt. Gosh, I am going this weekend for my MSF classes and this scares me to hear this