motorcycle rear ended...

porsche4786 · May 05, 2006, 03:22:46 PM

http://katu.com/stories/85652.html

They say the driver that rear ended him didn't even brake! WTF!? People need to WAKE UP! This is probably the 3rd or 4th story I've heard about a motorcycle getting rear ended...just in oregon. So I'm definatley going to get some kind of flashing brake light now, and probably an oscilating headlight. This happened just a few miles down the street from my work.

skoozi12 · May 05, 2006, 03:27:31 PM

That is F*cked up. RIP rider.

My Name Is Dave · May 05, 2006, 03:30:08 PM

A lady at work told me about this. God damn, that hits too close to home. Literally. It always pains me to read this type of shiza.

scratch · May 05, 2006, 03:32:53 PM

Is that really a picture of the bike? If so, it doesn't look like he got pinched between the two cars as stated in the newsstory. Maybe bopped into oncomming traffic?

Irregardless, wonder what the offending driver was doing this time? Cellphone, make-up, fiddlin' with the radio/CD player, newspaper crossword puzzle, dropped meth pipe...

My Name Is Dave · May 05, 2006, 03:42:26 PM

Quote from: scratch on May 05, 2006, 03:32:53 PM
Is that really a picture of the bike? If so, it doesn't look like he got pinched between the two cars as stated in the newsstory. Maybe bopped into oncomming traffic?

Irregardless, wonder what the offending driver was doing this time? Cellphone, make-up, fiddlin' with the radio/CD player, newspaper crossword puzzle, dropped meth pipe...

Um, it's Oregon; "dropped meth pipe" would be my guess.

I like that is says "An investigation into the accident is continuing." And I really hope that they don't just investigate and move on.

Dave

Kasumi · May 05, 2006, 03:42:52 PM

A similar thing happened with one of the kids at my school. 17 just passed his car test and was racing his car around been immature and having no experience. He caught up a biker
thing it was a cbr600 something similar, bike was doing about 80 and he'd been doing over 100 when he hasnt even got a single bit of experience but anywhos he was tail gating the biker and coming into a corner there was a large patch of gravel - biker immediatly slowed down fast as possible to attempt to avoid the gravel - guy in the car not paying attention slammed streight into the back. Luckily biker man was ok just scuffed leathers but his bike was written off. Car slightly dented. This kid in the car got out and told the biker it was his fault for breaking for no reason in the middle of the road and that the biker can't possibly expect his car to stop as quickly as the bike. Its always the car behinds fault and im sure the insurence will take that view too.

I mean immature, lack of experience - if he had the sense to know he couldn't stop quicker than the bike then he shouldnt have been so close behind him. Biker could have been seriously injured whereas his car came off with a dent. I think i might attach a spear to the front and back of my bike in the hope that when some arsehole tries to knock me off again (which has already happened to me) his car will suffer some more serious damage.

pandy · May 05, 2006, 03:51:05 PM

porsche4786 · May 05, 2006, 03:53:46 PM

So which one should I get? Somebody make the desicion for me.
http://www.customdynamics.com/signal_dynamics_back_off_brake_light_modulator.htm --- BackOff XP

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Kasumi · May 05, 2006, 03:58:48 PM

Well seems to me like theres no need to make a decision. BackOFF will only work on NON LED tail lights and the other will ONLY work on LED taillights. So which have you got? LED or normal tailights hehe.

porsche4786 · May 05, 2006, 04:24:41 PM

I have LED. BackOff XP (right below the normal one if you scroll down a bit) will work with LED....At least I think that's what it says.

manofthefield · May 05, 2006, 08:29:58 PM

That sucks

I know since I moved to Minnesota, I've been checking my mirrors a lot more at stop lights. The stop lights here seem to take forever, so there are a lot of people that try to make the yellow and end up running the red.

This morning I almost got creamed going to work because of someone in a hurry/ not paying attention. I came to a four way intersection where I was on more of a side road with a stop sign while adjacent traffic doesn't have to stop. Some lady in an SUV was coming from my right, turning onto my road and trying to cut the corner as much as possible... but that meant she was headed straight for me! I was sitting there like a deer in headlights cause she was carrying a lot of speed and I couldn't go fast enough backwards or pull forward into traffic. I still don't know what I should have done

Fortunately when she was halfway across the road she realized she was heading right towards me and swerved, then gave me an "Woops/I'm sorry" face. I was not too happy and still couldn't believe she almost ran me down in my lane. I guess it's another reinforcement that they are all out to get us... I just wish I could figure a way out of this for next time

starwalt · May 06, 2006, 01:43:57 PM

Quote from: Kasumi on May 05, 2006, 03:42:52 PM
... guy in the car not paying attention slammed streight into the back....kid in the car got out and told the biker it was his fault...

At this point the biker takes off his helmet and proceeds to use it to bust the sh!T out of the car's headlights, windshield, mirrors, etc.

Then he looks at the kid and says, "That's my fault."

An adrenaline rush shouldn't be wasted.

Kasumi · May 06, 2006, 02:51:05 PM

Hehehe too right, thats why the kid got lamped when he ran out of the road infront of me on purpose

cudn't waste that surge of anger and adrenaline hehe

My Name Is Dave · May 06, 2006, 03:11:11 PM

There have been a few times where some @$$hole in the car next to me is trying to act like they want shaZam!, and I'm just thinking about his odds against a guy in a helmet and carbon fiber gloves...who just happens to know martial arts...

No bueno, amigo.

Kasumi · May 06, 2006, 03:15:11 PM

Me and my dad were cruising around the area checking out all the major bike shops for gs's and a new tourer for him. Going down a dual carrigeway (2lanes) it was having roadworks done and so they were filtering everyone into one lane. They had a sign up about 500 yards down the road from where the lane actually stopped to indicate people to move into the first lane. Some ghey @$$hole in a van was driving in BOTH lanes, i.e stopping people getting past and filtering in the queue ahead of him whilst holding his position in the single lane he was ment to be totally in. This resulted in some very pissed off people so we edged past on the outside of the cars of the lane we were in (so between the cars in lane 2 and the divider. Then throttled it streight up to the front of the queue leaving ample time to give him the

Egaeus · May 06, 2006, 06:33:13 PM

Quote from: Kasumi on May 06, 2006, 03:15:11 PM
Me and my dad were cruising around the area checking out all the major bike shops for gs's and a new tourer for him. Going down a dual carrigeway (2lanes) it was having roadworks done and so they were filtering everyone into one lane. They had a sign up about 500 yards down the road from where the lane actually stopped to indicate people to move into the first lane. Some ghey @$$hole in a van was driving in BOTH lanes, i.e stopping people getting past and filtering in the queue ahead of him whilst holding his position in the single lane he was ment to be totally in. This resulted in some very pissed off people so we edged past on the outside of the cars of the lane we were in (so between the cars in lane 2 and the divider. Then throttled it streight up to the front of the queue leaving ample time to give him the

So, um, how do you know he was ghey?

pandy · May 06, 2006, 07:58:47 PM

He had a "I <3 The Village People" sticker on his van!

Kasumi · May 07, 2006, 03:04:30 AM

ghey @$$hole - my bad, anger taken over for common sense. I like ghey people - they're cool. Not so keen on major campness tho

pandy · May 07, 2006, 09:40:11 AM

What's "major campness?"

Kasumi · May 07, 2006, 03:34:33 PM

Im suprised you havn't heard of it? Well as described to me by a ghey friend of mine - campness is how outright ghey you act on purpose. i.e. someone who is really camp is like "oh my gawwwwd" - like your girl may be. And theyre really into putting tonnes of makeup on and go on about moisturiser and stuff like that (very girly femanine) Often they develop a very femanine voice as well. If your not that camp then you can still sound masculine and it would be much more difficult for other people to tell that your ghey. Hopefully i didnt offend any ghey people who may be here.

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