Why bikers hate cage drivers

[b1g-fuLLa]

Riding my zxr out to my mates place, along a twisty road, heaps of dips, hills, and good corners. I know the road like the back of my hand, so wasnt exactly going slow, but always swung wide on the corners to give plenty of room for oncoming traffic. Reached a hill climb section, which has a fairly tight right hand bend downhill from the crest. Over the crest at 100ish kmh and theres a f**king grey terrano in MY lane, leaving nowhere to go. Bike left the road, into a small grassy ditch, and I was thown six feet in the air and landed HARD on the road. I blacked out on impact for a couple seconds, when I came too I was still tumbling head over heels down hill. Came to a stop at the bottom of the hill more than 50m from the crash sight.

Stood up and looked for the terrano, the WANKER DIDNT EVEN STOP! Looked myself over, my right index finger was twisted at an unsightly angle, badly broken. My jacket and helmet saved my arse for the most part, but the jacket had hitched up at some point during the tumble and I had cuts, bruises and general road rash all over my lower back. My jeans were ripped and my knee had a large gash, see the bone pretty clearly and my shoe was steadily filling with blood. Ripped a section off my tshirt and tightly bound my knee to stem the flow, then pulled my phone out to ring the cops. It was smashed. With no other cars or houses near, I walked back up the hill to my bike, lying on its side in the grassy ditch. Lifted it up for inspection, it came off pretty well really, cracked screen, front fairing, side fairing, and broken exhaust mount, but that was it.

Let it stand and cool down for a few minutes (it was bloody hot!) and waited for another car to come along. With no other traffic, I had to get on the bike, and roll start it down the hill. It fired to life pretty easily, and I limped the last 3k to my mates, where he drove me to ANE to get my knee stitched up.

So that was yesterday afternoon, im FUCKING SPEWING, I lost my job recently and couldnt afford to continue insurance payments, so I'll have to foot the bill myself. That cunt could have killed me, Bloody well hope the cops track him down and kick his arse, but thats pretty unlikely seeing I didnt get a rego, or see the driver, all happened much too fast.

Glad it wasnt worse!

[oneofsix]

My sympathy. Had a cager do similar on the Akatara's, but they at least left me a foot or so of seal, lucky I had practiced my lane splitting so avoided the crash.

[Str8 Jacket]

What did you learn from this?

[Edbear]

Sorry to hear that. I assume you've given the Police as full a description of the vehicle as you can and the accident site?

You're alive and upright so that's great! It definitely could have been a lot worse!

[Gremlin]

What did you learn from this?

why bikers hate cage drivers of course...

[Kickaha]

What did you learn from this?

That's it's not a great idea to go over blind crests at 100ish kmh on a road you know like the back of your hand while you're not exactly going slow??

Nah that would be to much to expect

[Ferkletastic]

What Katman said.

+ Glad you're ok op. Live and learn, hope they find the car.

[NinjaNanna]

What did you learn from this?

His safety margin needs to be bigger, there are always going to be other idiots on the road and unfortunately we've got no idea as to when we will come across them.

[Eyegasm]

What did you learn from this?

I learnt...

1) ATGATT aint such a bad idea
2) Speed, even on roads you know extremely well, isn't exactly clever
3) If you are going to go fast, make sure your insurance is still there
4) Other road users may not stick to the rules of the road.

Hopefully the OP heals up fast.

[nodrog:Me]

I didnt realise the Coro Demons had a Pre School division. Is Mr Kornholio your riding instructor?

Fanny.

[Spearfish]

Another Monday biker down thread, at least this one got back up again.

[avgas]

What did you learn from this?

I need rockets.
Rockets and machine guns.

[Clockwork]

I don't want to rub salt into your wounds and I'm certainly not saying it could never happen to me but....

you crested a hill (which presumably you couldn't see over) at a 100kph and couldn't stop in time to avoid this. I think you're lucky to have come out of this relatively undamaged and not hurt some innocent party in the process. No, the Terrano driver wasn't an innocent party, but there could as easily have been some party legitimately occupying that same road space.

All the best for a speedy recovery.

[YellowDog]

Hey b1g-fuLLa - Glad you lived to tell the tale.

You need to adjust your style so that this doesn't happen to you again.

ATGATT - means riding pants that are attached to your jacket that will prevent road-rash.

This story tells us why you hate some cagers, but not all. There are some good ones out there too.

Heal fast and good luck with the repairs.

[Berg]

Plus 1 for the ATGATT comment.
After Mrs Berg went down on a diesel slick dropped by a 4x4 turning in front of us we were both amazed at the lack of injury she suffered. Her gear protected her superbly with only minor bruises resulting.