What to do (or say) when a crash is coming

KZJOE900 wrote: A 69 year old man got hit and died as he was walking just outside of the front entrance of my neighborhood yesterday. No more than 400 yards from my house. A seventeen year old girl in an SUV hit him on a straight road on a sunny clear day around 11:00 AM. Very sad.

I wonder if the text she was sending/reading was that important.

My one and only (knock on wood) accident was with a 18 wheeler doing an illegal u turn in front of me as I was going about 60mph.
I was no more then 10 yards before I hit him and I said clearly to myself "this is going to F#@king hurt".
And I was rite about that.

This is going to hurt is what I said when I had my wreck. That is three in this post. :blink:

even though that guy was far from an a rider,he did have a helmet and good riding gear....doing better than guys on this site who post pics riding in shorts with t-shirt bare handed and no helmet.....he also was in the honeymoon phase of riding from what I saw....but....his skill level has just doubled/tripled in those few seconds...the honeymoon is over now... and he is one of the living to get chance to improve and learn...of those who have these things take place- many/some:

sell the bike and never ride again

ride around super scared for a while then park the bike and ride very few times a year after

think the incident over again and again replaying-reliving it and coming up with different ways they could have reacted...even practicing these ways in their upcoming rides trying to get a better feel for what happened and how to handle it better next time...or avoid it ever happening again

die the first time

Alright. I don't do Facebook... someone repost this video to YouTube or something.

slayer61 wrote: Alright. I don't do Facebook... someone repost this video to YouTube or something.

Try this:

Click on the first link provided in this thread (as usual);

In few seconds, the first frame of the video should fill the screen,
but a "Go" arrow doesn't appear as it does in a YouTube video;

Just click anywhere on the screen, and the video should start running.


No need to be familiar with or know anything about Facebook.

Good Fortune!

slayer61 wrote: Alright. I don't do Facebook... someone repost this video to YouTube or something.

Here it is. Tell me this guy isn't an idiot. Weaving in and out around cars as if he was in a big hurry to crash into those trucks before they had a chance to escape! :laugh: :laugh: He had all the time in the world to stop, but instead he just kept accelerating forward. Really stupid! Ed

Thanks for that Ed.


That guy is a dumbass. He deserves whatever injuries he got. Stupidity should be painful.

Say? Not a damn thing.

Do? Wear your gear and try not to ride like a knob.

I love it when old timers tell me shit like, "Stay away from that front brake, you'll flip over the bars!" or "I had to lay 'er down."

If loud pipes save lives, think of what rider training would do!