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Re: Hit by car -- only 16 days old!
- Subject: Re: Hit by car -- only 16 days old!
- From: Rich Weyand <weyand@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 15:20:29 -0600
Ah, shit. (And all I've read is the subject line....)
At 02:59 PM 12/6/99 -0500, Bill Flowers wrote:
>Last night on the way home from dropping something at the office, I
>turned left onto a 4-lane (2 each way) road at the same time an opposing
>driver turned right. OK, I made a mistake.
Yup. Mistake, though not your fault in a legal sense. I brought this up on rec.moto just last week:
Rich Weyand wrote:
>
> Bama Brian wrote:
> >
> > Rich, there's some unfortunate reality in your post. In Germany,
> > people are much more disciplined about how they drive. Here
> > in the U.S. "Keep right except to pass" means nothing to the
> > typical driver. For example, have you ever approached a driveway
> > with a car about to pull out, moved to the left lane to avoid it, and had
> > it pull out across the road into your lane, in front of you? I've
> > had this one happen while I was driving Brutus Bronco!
>
> Yup. Also, people at intersections who always turn into the far lane
> when turning. I have even seen them turn into the far lane, then change
> lanes back into the one they should have turned into! I have had people
> appear to have coronaries when I make a turn into the closer (my) lane
> while they are oncoming and turning into the same two-lane street. Why?
> *I* am not taking *their* lane. (P.S.: Do *not* do this on the mc!)
I am really sorry to hear about the accident, and glad that you're mostly OK.
WRT the bike, I am not sure if the fact that it was in break-in makes it better or worse insofar as the oil starvation goes. I think I would want them to pull the heads and check the valves and bores at a minimum.
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