HungusMaximist
7th October 2007, 22:13
Just a lesson for you all and me.
On Friday morning I had a near bin miss coming out of the St Johns roundabout which intersects St Johns Rd and College Rd.
Just as I left the roundabout there was a white KIA ahead of me. The KIA was slowing down very significantly and was traveling close to left hand side curb. So I thought the car was either gonna indicate left and pull to a stop or keep on going straight ahead.
The sensible thing to do in that situation was probably to wait it out a little longer and see what the driver was going to do next but as I was eager to get home, I started to swerve to the right and begin to over take and before I know it, the car turned right and smacks into me.
After that I swerved violently (as I lost my back due to the smack) onto the opposite road and managed to avoid the evil on coming curb by cutting through to a drive way on my right and coming to halt . All that time the only thing that I was telling myself ''oh shit, oh shit it's gonna drop, it's gonna drop but fuck, don't you fucken drop it", because just as I was about to come to a complete stop the bike started to lean and was about to drop, I flipping grabbed the handle bars and yanked it as hard as could to the right and saved it. :rolleyes:
Jumped off my bike and assessed the damage, broken givi side pannier rack, dents in my left hand exhaust, left foot peg snapped clean off, bent brackets and a fucken sore leg. I was in a state of disbelief how I saved myself from binning but was glad I didn't come off any worse.
Had a chat to the senior driver, the first thing that came outta his mouth was "Are you alright?" and I replied "Yea I am fine, but I am not so sure about my bike" and showed him the my bike and he said with no hesitation "I will pay for the repairs". I asked him "you got insurance?", he ignored me so I carried on to grab his details and when I asked for his driver license he looked really disappointed and wished that I never asked him. :wacko:
Cut this short, had a short yarn with him about what happened, the whole "sorry I didn't see you'' line came up and I said "look, you obviously didn't look before you turned''.
End of the day, he received a few deep marks on his right hand bumper and I didn't end up in the ground. Damage on my part was some what minor but was reasonable enough to teach me how to ride without a foot peg (frikkin hard I tell yeah). As for insurance companies, didn't bother, wasn't significant enough on my part and he gave me a few hundy to sort it out privately as he and I knew getting the insurance to cop out here was pointless.
The lesson learned and what I should have done instead?
*I should have stayed and waited. I wasn't thinking properly and made a error of judgment by over taking. The car infront gave no signals he was going to turn until the last minute, so cars that you encounter in situations like this, wait the fuck out!
*Don't fucken overtake/swerve to the right unless you're 100% sure the cage infront of ya isn't gonna do something out of the blue (this is very applicable in suburban areas). This means, he has clearly indicated. Be very very cautious at drivers that keep slowing down and speeding up infront of you, they are most likely, learning how to drive or looking for an address.
I have actually posted stuff on this shit, so on my part, this happening to me is just ironic. I am usually really good with these things and I am glad I learned this the hard way and vow never to over take until I am doubley sure. :niceone:
Also don't be a smart ass like the guy I saw on Tamaki drive on Friday afternoon. He was wearing a grey/black alpine star textile jacket, black helmet, backpack? and riding a naked bike resembling a Bandit 650/1250. The dude was literally in and out, filtering through the rush hour traffic as if he owned it. Sure, I thought he looked pretty cool doing shit like that and glad he had the balls, but a one dumb car and you're it.
On Friday morning I had a near bin miss coming out of the St Johns roundabout which intersects St Johns Rd and College Rd.
Just as I left the roundabout there was a white KIA ahead of me. The KIA was slowing down very significantly and was traveling close to left hand side curb. So I thought the car was either gonna indicate left and pull to a stop or keep on going straight ahead.
The sensible thing to do in that situation was probably to wait it out a little longer and see what the driver was going to do next but as I was eager to get home, I started to swerve to the right and begin to over take and before I know it, the car turned right and smacks into me.
After that I swerved violently (as I lost my back due to the smack) onto the opposite road and managed to avoid the evil on coming curb by cutting through to a drive way on my right and coming to halt . All that time the only thing that I was telling myself ''oh shit, oh shit it's gonna drop, it's gonna drop but fuck, don't you fucken drop it", because just as I was about to come to a complete stop the bike started to lean and was about to drop, I flipping grabbed the handle bars and yanked it as hard as could to the right and saved it. :rolleyes:
Jumped off my bike and assessed the damage, broken givi side pannier rack, dents in my left hand exhaust, left foot peg snapped clean off, bent brackets and a fucken sore leg. I was in a state of disbelief how I saved myself from binning but was glad I didn't come off any worse.
Had a chat to the senior driver, the first thing that came outta his mouth was "Are you alright?" and I replied "Yea I am fine, but I am not so sure about my bike" and showed him the my bike and he said with no hesitation "I will pay for the repairs". I asked him "you got insurance?", he ignored me so I carried on to grab his details and when I asked for his driver license he looked really disappointed and wished that I never asked him. :wacko:
Cut this short, had a short yarn with him about what happened, the whole "sorry I didn't see you'' line came up and I said "look, you obviously didn't look before you turned''.
End of the day, he received a few deep marks on his right hand bumper and I didn't end up in the ground. Damage on my part was some what minor but was reasonable enough to teach me how to ride without a foot peg (frikkin hard I tell yeah). As for insurance companies, didn't bother, wasn't significant enough on my part and he gave me a few hundy to sort it out privately as he and I knew getting the insurance to cop out here was pointless.
The lesson learned and what I should have done instead?
*I should have stayed and waited. I wasn't thinking properly and made a error of judgment by over taking. The car infront gave no signals he was going to turn until the last minute, so cars that you encounter in situations like this, wait the fuck out!
*Don't fucken overtake/swerve to the right unless you're 100% sure the cage infront of ya isn't gonna do something out of the blue (this is very applicable in suburban areas). This means, he has clearly indicated. Be very very cautious at drivers that keep slowing down and speeding up infront of you, they are most likely, learning how to drive or looking for an address.
I have actually posted stuff on this shit, so on my part, this happening to me is just ironic. I am usually really good with these things and I am glad I learned this the hard way and vow never to over take until I am doubley sure. :niceone:
Also don't be a smart ass like the guy I saw on Tamaki drive on Friday afternoon. He was wearing a grey/black alpine star textile jacket, black helmet, backpack? and riding a naked bike resembling a Bandit 650/1250. The dude was literally in and out, filtering through the rush hour traffic as if he owned it. Sure, I thought he looked pretty cool doing shit like that and glad he had the balls, but a one dumb car and you're it.