Lessons learned? I had my XJ900F written off by a driver who unexpectedly pulled a U-turn in front of me - this on a stretch of road between two roundabouts. I still have the plate in place in my left wrist and I suspect this accident was the final straw that finished my first marriage. On the plus side, I received a decent payout on the settlement. I learned that, no matter how unlikely a course of action, some car driver somewhere is going to do something that is going to hurt you. No matter how unlikely it might seem.
i think its always someone else's fault especially if they are not on a bike, as i have a god dam given right to be where i want to be on the road when i want to be there......
You disagree with the police report in my case? Or are you just making a pithy (sorry about the lithp), generalised kind of comment? You may commence your back-pedalling now
We're small, fast, vulnerable and difficult to see, all this SMIDSY is one thing, but what are YOU doing to be seen? Lessons I've learned is you need to even the odds as much as poss, I wear a partly high viz lid on the road now, I don't give a feck if I look like "Dayglo Derek", there's plenty of gear out there now with hi viz flashes on you don't have to look like a lollipop man if you're more worried about you cool than your limbs. As Loz has eluded to, it's not just the rider that suffers...
Having the balls to admit you could of and should of done something before the incident ever happened are the mark of a good rider......... you may continue on with your blind unconscious incompetence.....
Pretty sure that this is what I've done by posting in the thread, Andy. I'm shocked you missed a subtle point in that way True, but at least my blindness has been decreased an increment by the episode
76 year old semi retired bus driver swung out from the curb to take a steep right turn back on himself. Silly me assumed he was slowed right down to stop at the bus stop 15yards ahead of him. He didnt indicate or check his mirrors and I ploughed into the offside rear (engine block) at 50mph. I count myself lucky that it was a damp grey November day and I'd decided to take the car with a 5* crash rating. I got away with a burst lumbar vertebra, 3 months in a brace and lots of physio. If I'd been on the bike I'd have either made it round the back of him or been killed instantly. 12 months later i learned what 'backing it in' means, only in my case I was on the warm down lap in the wet at Oulton and laid it down. All the protective gear did what it was supposed to do. I learned that if you can't afford to crash it, don't take it on track. Minor repairs in that instance but certainly won't take something I haven't finished paying for out on track.
