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Sean Fair
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Alberta
Soarer TT GTL

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Thursday, September 28, 2006 - 11:30 am, by:  Sean Fair (Sean_fair) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Driving in the city, and a guy pulls out about 15 ft in front of me doing 40 less than the speed limit. No signal, no shouldercheck.

I slammed on my brakes, laid the bike down at about 60k, slid/rolled 45 feet.

Came out okay, little rash on the knee, sore shoulder, but otherwise okay. That's why we wear protective equipment, thank goodness.

Good thing the bike is getting retired for the much-safer soarer
Charlie Hooper
TryHard
Queensland
V8 Limited Soarer

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Thursday, September 28, 2006 - 12:29 pm, by:  Charlie Hooper (Charlie) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Did the guy who pulled out stop?

Was he a Taxi driver? heh ... Damn I hate Taxi drivers, I wish they had to sit extra driving tests or something..

Atleast you're OK..
Peter Nitschke
JunkFilterer
South Australia
GT4.0 V8

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Thursday, September 28, 2006 - 12:32 pm, by:  Peter Nitschke (Pen) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Over here in SA now, they are coaching applicants on how to pass the tests. Things like what road signs mean. So they can pass without actually being able to read English.
Sean Fair
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Alberta
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Thursday, September 28, 2006 - 01:10 pm, by:  Sean Fair (Sean_fair) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Nah, he didn't stop. I doubt he even knew what happened, I'm pretty sure he was totally oblivious to the road and in a hurry.

Taxi drivers aren't so bad over here. Are they really bad in oz?
By the not reading english part I assume many are foreign?
Matthew Sharpe
Goo Roo
North Island
JZZ31

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Thursday, September 28, 2006 - 01:23 pm, by:  Matthew Sharpe (Madmatt) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Bah, in NZ the theory tests are made up of pictures with scratch off answers, so you don't have to be able to read or write.
Peter Nitschke
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South Australia
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Thursday, September 28, 2006 - 01:53 pm, by:  Peter Nitschke (Pen) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Just scratch and sniff?
Peter Nitschke
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Thursday, September 28, 2006 - 01:53 pm, by:  Peter Nitschke (Pen) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Sean, yes.
Michael Machin
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Franklin
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Thursday, September 28, 2006 - 03:07 pm, by:  Michael Machin (Minz) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

He's probably one of those guys who looks in his rear-view mirror when he's checking his make-up so he didn't see. No-one who stopped to help you caught his license plate?
Miles Baker
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Thursday, September 28, 2006 - 05:56 pm, by:  Miles Baker (Milesb) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Almost the same thing happened to me. It was a taxi driver. He blind turned through a no-right-turn straight into me and my housemate. TL1000R and GSXR600 both totalled. Luckily a bystander got pissed off and took the taxi driver's keys. Cops were there minutes later, all taken care of. Sore for a long time.

Glad you're OK. It can be fixed, you sometimes can't.
Scott Ferguson
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Alberta
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Thursday, September 28, 2006 - 11:32 pm, by:  Scott Ferguson (Scott_ferguson) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Holy crp Sean when did this happen? Where abouts in town?

Yeah, there are a lot of those drivers here. Last winter with about 6 inches of fresh snow down I was just about to NAIT, my college, and some guy in a corolla came from a merge lane with a yield sign with no shoulder check no glance in case anyone was coming, i had to slide the my old van sideways to not hit him and when i looked down the side mirror we were still only about 3 inches apart as we were sliding.

You just can't expect what some of these morons will do.
Sean Fair
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Alberta
Soarer TT GTL

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Thursday, September 28, 2006 - 11:33 pm, by:  Sean Fair (Sean_fair) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Yeah, I'm glad it wasn't worse. And no, I don't think anyone caught the plate, the other vehicles were pretty far back. I hope someone did, but I coulnd't ask because I was in the ambulance getting checked out.

And yeah, that's crazy that someone turned into you. That crap happens all the time, but I just never figured it would be me, because I am a pretty cautious driver. Sometimes just catches up with you though.

I'm now a statistic haha. 21 year old motorcyclist. Except I've been riding for 4 years.
Matthew Sharpe
Goo Roo
North Island
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Friday, September 29, 2006 - 06:45 am, by:  Matthew Sharpe (Madmatt) Quote hilighted text Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)


Peter Nitschke wrote on Thursday, September 28, 2006 - 01:53 pm:

Just scratch and sniff?




Yeah, like an instant lottery ticket - match 4 bells and you can go out and kill people with your car!

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