Honey Badger
...iz a girl
Okay BARFers, quarterback away on this one. Start the video around the 45 second mark.
Story - I was commuting to work along my normal route. Camera is mounted on bike, not helmet. No driveways, alleyways, or parking lots on my right. Damp morning, so for the most part I was being pretty chill since roads were slick. In that particular location, I'm more worried about pedestrians jumping out from the right or someone moving out of a parking spot, attention and positioning were focused more on that.
Driver admitted to attempting to make an illegal U-turn from [his] far right lane to get to a parking spot on my side of the street. By the time I saw him and started to react, with how quickly he was getting across my lane I knew I couldn't avoid him, and if I was going to hit him, wanted to do so straight on rather than sideways or worse yet getting clipped by his truck. At least managed to keep the bike pretty straight, so accomplished that.
Bike is totaled, I was ATGATT so nothing more than some cool bruises to show for it, nothing else has popped up so I think that was the worst of the damage. Had a nice outline of a GSXR tank on my nether regions. Really glad I wasn't a dude :laughing
Pretty much every time I've tossed a bike I've known there were things I could have done to prevent it from happening (or that I did that caused it to happen). Other than not being there, I'm honestly at a bit of a loss on this one - guess I could putter around town at 10mph, but that offers other risks. Perhaps you guys will see something I missed. His insurance took 100% fault.
Going through slowly I can see the top of his shell in one brief moment between the cars way earlier, but other than that, I don't see any giveaways until he's getting into my lane. Since he didn't pause to see if anyone was coming, I couldn't swerve around him (didn't want to have him hit me, either).
If nothing else, good lesson and reminder to ALWAYS gear up.
youtu.be/YMvHFWDoYbw
Story - I was commuting to work along my normal route. Camera is mounted on bike, not helmet. No driveways, alleyways, or parking lots on my right. Damp morning, so for the most part I was being pretty chill since roads were slick. In that particular location, I'm more worried about pedestrians jumping out from the right or someone moving out of a parking spot, attention and positioning were focused more on that.
Driver admitted to attempting to make an illegal U-turn from [his] far right lane to get to a parking spot on my side of the street. By the time I saw him and started to react, with how quickly he was getting across my lane I knew I couldn't avoid him, and if I was going to hit him, wanted to do so straight on rather than sideways or worse yet getting clipped by his truck. At least managed to keep the bike pretty straight, so accomplished that.
Bike is totaled, I was ATGATT so nothing more than some cool bruises to show for it, nothing else has popped up so I think that was the worst of the damage. Had a nice outline of a GSXR tank on my nether regions. Really glad I wasn't a dude :laughing
Pretty much every time I've tossed a bike I've known there were things I could have done to prevent it from happening (or that I did that caused it to happen). Other than not being there, I'm honestly at a bit of a loss on this one - guess I could putter around town at 10mph, but that offers other risks. Perhaps you guys will see something I missed. His insurance took 100% fault.
Going through slowly I can see the top of his shell in one brief moment between the cars way earlier, but other than that, I don't see any giveaways until he's getting into my lane. Since he didn't pause to see if anyone was coming, I couldn't swerve around him (didn't want to have him hit me, either).
If nothing else, good lesson and reminder to ALWAYS gear up.
youtu.be/YMvHFWDoYbw
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