Please read this - anatomy of my crash

**reofix** · 5th March 2011, 20:20

a noisy exhaust wont save us
a horn is not a safety device
if it looks bad ... it is bad
macho doesnt belong on the road

**motor_mayhem** · 5th March 2011, 20:29

Originally Posted by reofix

you faffed around and you got pranged...re read your story and think about when you had the power to avoid this.. easy really.. sick of bleating ninnie biker stories

Do you think you should be preaching like that lest the next vehicle missile around the corner has your name on it?

OP - terrible thing to happen and utter shite that they didn't bother stopping. The unfortuate bad news will probably be that the judge will hand them down a reparations sentence and they will say "Ah my life's so hard I won't be able to survive with that" and they will end up paying it back at $5-$10 a week for a short eternity. That's what happen when a friend's car got stolen, $5k payout but at about $5 a week, meanwhile he's left without a mode of transport for work and has to take out a loan with some exorbitant rate of interest to get one again.

**reofix** · 5th March 2011, 20:34

its not about preaching ... this story reads like an everyday situation on a bike.. roadcraft will keep you safe from encaging in macho games with 1500 kg hunks of steel

**Bonez** · 5th March 2011, 20:38

It is you isn't it Steve?

**reofix** · 5th March 2011, 20:41

no???????????????

Originally Posted by bonez

it is you isn't it steve?

**Shiny side up** · 5th March 2011, 20:45

Originally Posted by reofix

its not about preaching ... this story reads like an everyday situation on a bike.. roadcraft will keep you safe from encaging in macho games with 1500 kg hunks of steel

Yup it is every bikers story in a general sense and my story in a personal sense. That is why I bothered to share it.

Roadcraft (and good gear) saved my ass. But the laws of physics mean that you can't always dodge a bullet just because you see the gun swing towards you, or the car comming at you. Some times all you can do is put your head between you knees and kiss your sorry ass goodbye.

**Shiny side up** · 5th March 2011, 20:48

Originally Posted by reofix

a noisy exhaust wont save us
a horn is not a safety device
if it looks bad ... it is bad
macho doesnt belong on the road

So true....
The XJ is very noisy and I had changed down to have reaction if the idiot did do something stupid.

The horn did nothing to stop him

I could see it was going to get bad

Tring to force the right of way would have got me killed

**98tls** · 5th March 2011, 20:52

Originally Posted by Shiny side up

Yup it is every bikers story in a general sense and my story in a personal sense. That is why I bothered to share it.

Roadcraft (and good gear) saved my ass. But the laws of physics mean that you can't always dodge a bullet just because you see the gun swing towards you, or the car comming at you. Some times all you can do is put your head between you knees and kiss your sorry ass goodbye.

As you say.No doubt this thread will like so many others degenerate into what ifs/what i would have done/what Carl Fogarty would do blah blah blah,main thing is your here to tell the story eh sounds like it could have been well worse.

**reofix** · 5th March 2011, 20:54

But .. with respect the argument is bigger than you.. we have a lot of macho idiots trying to enforce "biker rights" out on the road... the price is too high ... the cyclist mob have the same shit going on and they are dying like flies .. its time to get smart !

**Shiny side up** · 5th March 2011, 21:00

Originally Posted by reofix

But .. with respect the argument is bigger than you.. we have a lot of macho idiots trying to enforce "biker rights" out on the road... the price is too high ... the cyclist mob have the same shit going on and they are dying like flies .. its time to get smart !

I am smart...... that is why I am alive inspite of that cage drivers best attempt. I wasn't claiming any rights. I just fought to stay shiny side up.

**Ocean1** · 5th March 2011, 21:00

Originally Posted by Bonez

It is you isn't it Steve?

Who cares, another lowbrow troll or yet another expert wanker here to tell everyone they're cunts. Either way it's on ignore...

**reofix** · 5th March 2011, 21:05

Originally Posted by Ocean1

Who cares, another lowbrow troll or yet another expert wanker here to tell everyone they're cunts. Either way it's on ignore...

anyone spot the macho bullshit .... anyway i hope you get lucky and dodge the bullets that painting a target on your forehead encourage

**Bonez** · 5th March 2011, 21:12

Originally Posted by reofix

anyone spot the macho bullshit ....

Do feel free to highlight it. From what I can see SSu was trying his best to avoid a bad situation. Oh course you would have pulled a wheelly and riden over the Falcon eh?