Darn left turning cagers rant

[WordTooYoMamma]

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/Rant On
So I get back from laconia on tuesday after a 2 hour slab, drop the girlfriend off, and continue to my house.
I am rounding a yieleded right hand turn and a lady in a minivan(i think) decided to take a left in front of me. The way I quickly stopped (practice your emergancy stops boys and girls) I would have proceded to miss her entirely...assuming she didn't panic and just slam on the brakes...like she did. I hit her rear tire doing about 5mph. I kept the bike up and pushed it over to the side of the street and told the lady to pull the eff over. She hops out the car and trys to tell me its my fault because I flew around the corner. I told her to shut the hell up and to not start that shit with me, I hadn't even accelerated to 30mph from the turn yet. She didn't say a word for the rest of the time I inspected my bike. There didn't seem to be any damage to my bike, and frankly I couldn't have givin a shit less if I had done any damage to her car. Took some pictures of her car where I hit her(proving no visable damage on my part), picture of her plate, and picture of her. Got her phone number,told her she got fucking lucky, and left.
On the ride home I looked for physical changes in the bike while riding it and found none.
Soooo... off to the honey dew before bike night. I ask Nick(FF36buel) and Pete(Oreo) to inspect my bike and paid for the inspection by taking a few insults from nick. They didn't seem too concerned with how the bike looked so that made me feel better.
The rest of the day was fun.

Shit like this makes me feel like I am due to have a time where I am not so lucky. I mean I've totalled a bike that caused me to fly over the bars into a ditch and I walked away with not a scratch. Now this shit happens and im fine and my bike doesn't have a scratch on it. Don't get me wrong im glad things have happened in my favor but its just like a complete mindfuck riding around knowing I can't always be so lucky.
/Rant Off

[lrrs699]

i feel the same way....i pulled my first "endo" because some biatch pulled in front of me without looking and at the same intersection, woman on a cell phone pulled a left in front of me i took evasive manuevers and she turned right (where i was going) i was looking in here rear pass window, I went into parking lot across the street, she kept on driving....she had no idea what had just occured. I wish i kicked here fucking door in to this day....

[WordTooYoMamma]

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This lady had a 5 or 6 year old in the back so I tried to contain myself for the most part but I was ripshit.

[ChrisNoF4i]

A woman with priorities so out of whack doesn't deserve such a fine automobile.

[obsolete]

When the hell did it become inappropriate to back hand a woman in the mouth for talking out of turn? Sounds like this chick needed a little training.

[WordTooYoMamma]

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When the hell did it become inappropriate to back hand a woman in the mouth for talking out of turn? Sounds like this chick needed a little training.

I find a cuntpunt to be far more effective

[toocrazy2yoo]

When the hell did it become inappropriate to back hand a woman in the mouth for talking out of turn? Sounds like this chick needed a little training.

Well, out on the street, the cops'll backhand YOU

So, I'm up here from Va. for a few days, moving stuff up to Hamilton, setting up the yellow page ad, new phone number, whatnot. Like a moron, I left 6 cartons of Florida-priced smokes back in Va., so I hadda run up to Stratham, NH Market Basket to grab a few cartons (36.00/carton for Marlboro Medium, if anyone cares). So the GPS leads me from Hamilton up 133 through Essex, Ipswitch, and who knows what others on the way to I-95. That Rt 133 has about a dozen places in 10 miles where roads join at a steep angle. The intersections are like a group of angles coming together, no warning, no traffic lights, and the cars are crossing and entering 133 as if they're the only ones on the road. And EVERY ONE OF EM was on the phone. The spontaneous left turners were out in force Saturday and I was in a CAR fer chrissake. Top it off, the pavement is cratered, sand all over the place, but they do keep the speed limits down, I suppose a prudent rider doesn't crash, but there are more hazards on 133 per mile than any road I ever saw.

The mindfuck syndrome WordtooYo talks about comes over me up here driving around, visualizing various situations that are dicey in a CAR, let alone on a bike. I've done around 100 or 125K miles on bikes down there over 25 years and never crashed, some of it doing nutty stuff, but as I move around the area of the North Shore, I wonder how the hell am I NOT gonna crash on the bike up here at some point just riding around minding my own business.

This area is a challenge like nowhere I ever saw. Top it off, just North of the Ma./NH line on I-95, I saw a group of sporters on the Northbound side ditching their helmets, and everywhere up in NH on my little trip I saw bikers with no hat. Sportbikers, too. WTF?

[snwbrdr435]

I have gotten this as an answer multiple times"Live free or die man, im already dead so i don't care"

[kb1]

Well, out on the street, the cops'll backhand YOU

So, I'm up here from Va. for a few days, moving stuff up to Hamilton, setting up the yellow page ad, new phone number, whatnot. Like a moron, I left 6 cartons of Florida-priced smokes back in Va., so I hadda run up to Stratham, NH Market Basket to grab a few cartons (36.00/carton for Marlboro Medium, if anyone cares). So the GPS leads me from Hamilton up 133 through Essex, Ipswitch, and who knows what others on the way to I-95. That Rt 133 has about a dozen places in 10 miles where roads join at a steep angle. The intersections are like a group of angles coming together, no warning, no traffic lights, and the cars are crossing and entering 133 as if they're the only ones on the road. And EVERY ONE OF EM was on the phone. The spontaneous left turners were out in force Saturday and I was in a CAR fer chrissake. Top it off, the pavement is cratered, sand all over the place, but they do keep the speed limits down, I suppose a prudent rider doesn't crash, but there are more hazards on 133 per mile than any road I ever saw.

The mindfuck syndrome WordtooYo talks about comes over me up here driving around, visualizing various situations that are dicey in a CAR, let alone on a bike. I've done around 100 or 125K miles on bikes down there over 25 years and never crashed, some of it doing nutty stuff, but as I move around the area of the North Shore, I wonder how the hell am I NOT gonna crash on the bike up here at some point just riding around minding my own business.

This area is a challenge like nowhere I ever saw. Top it off, just North of the Ma./NH line on I-95, I saw a group of sporters on the Northbound side ditching their helmets, and everywhere up in NH on my little trip I saw bikers with no hat. Sportbikers, too. WTF?

You'll get used to it...

[KillBill]

Sucks but it's reality

[Slyder]

A few miles down the road from where I live I was following some dumbass kid in a bronco/blazer/pickup something along those lines, he puts on his blinker to turn right. There's a park and ride as well as another street so I figured he was turning. He moved over to the right as well. Then out of no where he cuts the wheel to the left and makes an illegal U-turn. Mash the brakes, was only within 5 or so feet and he's broadside looking at me so he gets the "you're # 1" finger on the left hand as I was still braking to avoid him. He's looking at me like "wtf is your problem".

Ahhh I wanted to beat the piss out of him.

So kids, just because someone shows the complete intention of turning right doesn't mean he/she will. I know in this case a LOT of people would have gone to the left of whomever and around them. Try not to do that....you just never know what some idiot will really do. Hang back a bit. 1-2 seconds late is a lot better than what could have happened, bike or cage.