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Sad Motorcycle Accident in AZ
- MFolks
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- DoubleDub
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When I started riding I never worried about getting hit from behind. Maybe it's because I live in a more densely populated area now, but that is the thing I fear the most when commuting now. Too many people stop way too close to other cars, much less motorcycles. I always stay in gear and watch my mirrors so I can move if I need to.
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testarossa wrote:
I second what DoubleDub says. I stay in gear and watch my mirrors until that car behind me is stopped. I find that it helps if you flash your brakes as they are pulling up.
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1978 KZ1000 A2 Click--->Build Thread
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2020 Harley Street Glide Special
Angola, IN
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Our brilliant public service officials (Sarcasm) just turned down a bill regarding cell phone & text-ing use while driving. :blush: She's an idiot... Don't care what party she belongs to, she's an idiot...
Did I say she 's an idiot....
Several years ago, a driver on one of the highway loops caused a 15 car pile up... She had a bowl of cereal in her lap and was doing her make up while driving at 55mph yet....
When confronted about that, she replied don't blame me for I have been doing this every morning for the last 15 years and never had any issues what so ever... :blink:
For those that haven't been here, the Phoenix valley holds ~ 4.5 million people... Mini LA....
All in all, one of the reasons I only ride here on Sundays (less traffic)... too many whack jobs driving out there these days...
Same time, let's be real for a moment, this could happen any time, anywhere... Sad, just plain lousy luck for those riders and their families...
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Man that story sucks. It doesn't say if the truck driver was charged or not. I stay in gear till cars stop behind me too. I learned the hard way when my bike was knocked out from under me at a light, I herd skids and looked back just in time to kick my right leg out of the way as this Camaro hit the right foot peg. The A-hole looked at me and punched it burning rubber to get out of there. I got REAL lucky on that one, I also found the car a couple of weeks later on the side of a house and put the driver under arrest for hit and run.
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Score one for the good guys. That sounds close to my Hawaii incident. except the cops are so corrupt there that even if you found the car they would not do anything about it. The guy behind me was trying to do a burn out to impress me and his brakes didn't hold. Even with the witnesses and the plate # the cops told me that they could not find him. How hard could it be on an island that is 30mi long and 12mi wide, and 2/3 of it are military installations restricted to civilians.
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76 KZ-900 Totaly stock vice MAC pipe
77 KZ-1000A stock
78 Z1-R 100%MINT 500 original Mi.
78 Z1-R Yoshi 1103 kit stage 1 cams Yoshi pipe. Etc
79 KZ-1300 (1400)
80 KZ-1300
81 Scratch built GPz1150R
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