Moving Target. 6/26/2006
I had a fabulous start to this Monday morning. I got hit.
By a woman driver in an MPV.
Gymi had this to say about incidents like this a week back.
I was riding on my morning commute, as usual. I was splitting lanes, as usual. There was a car in front of me straddling the lanes, trying to get into the next lane, as usual. I went left around him, still in my lane, as usual. I got hit in the left pannier, which wasn’t so usual.
I managed to stop the bike from tipping over, and I pulled over in front of her. I got off the bike, and she came out of her car. A slim waif of a girl. I was expecting her to be apologetic for hitting me. Fat chance. All she had to say was that I wasn’t injured, and there was no damage and let’s all be on our way. I gave her a few choice expletives, and told her to show a little more respect for bikers in the future.
I walked back to the bike, and got on. I thumbed the starter button. And the carburettors were flooded. I cranked it a little, and the battery was giving up the ghost. And she didn’t start. I looked around at the woman, and shouted a few more expletives at her. There was nothing I could really do.
There was too much traffic for me to contemplate doing a racing start. There was no real emergency lane, and the bike was sticking out into the traffic, making it dangerous for traffic behind me. I lit a roll up, and decided to wait it out. If the traffic cleared enough, I might be able to push start her.
After 2 roll ups, and baking in the early morning sun in my riding gear, I decided to give it up for a lost cause. I pushed the bike further down the road. And I was glad to see a disused turnoff on the left side. And this turn off had a slight slope to it. I rolled the bike over, grateful that the morning rush hour traffic saw me pushing the bike, and giving way for me, something a certain ungrateful woman driver had decided not to do.
I rolled, snicked her into second, and she fired right up. I muttered a thanks for sub 150 kg bikes, and shot off, none the worse for wear really, except that I was now sweating buckets.
- Posted in : On the road
- Author : thesnark
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Sorry to hear this dude!
Just don’t let this make the Monday become more blue…
that’s why bikes with kick-start is best.
women in SUV.. scary.
What are you doing splitting lanes with bags on your bike? Make it skinny and loud. Nevermind. Those cagers still won’t pay attention.
Hming : You don’t know the half of it. Aside from being late to work, I had another problem to deal with, involving some bad food from the night before.
KY : Kick start or not, if the carbs are flooded, the carbs are flooded. You just have to wait. And she was in an MPV, not an SUV. When I was sitting on the bike, and it wouldn’t start, I almost wanted to throw my helmet through her windshield.
Damn…. b*t*h!!
Experience something like that a couple of weeks back.
@#$%@#$ new merc swerved, without using the signals (of course) and hit me square on my right and nearly tipping me over. The engine guard took the entire impact and came out scratchless!! Best RM300 bucks i’ve ever spent!! Merc had a nasty dent
Serve the bast**d right… could’ve been killed…
Bike 1 - Merc 0
MPV bitch on the prowl deserves a whacking by the Truck (driver).
It’s good that you didn’t get hurt, that kind of thing happens all the time around here. I think it is bad for us bikers, I work with a guy who rides his bicycle to work, He gets hit like that once or twice a month. It is usually him hitting the car to wake them up. He stays pretty sharp, because most of the cagers in this part of town really don’t pay attention at all. Except to putting on their makeup or eating their egg Mcmuffin.
I got creamed once too by a wreakless lady CRV driver… damn biatch. Lucky my bike took the bulk of the damage and not me. You can find it in one of my older wheels entries… sheeeesh…
Snark, The good news you are okay,the pannier is okay,the worst case scnario is being stuck with all the traffic zooming by you,Im quite sure with leathers & a certian level of stress & anguish,most folks would have certinly paniced ,however you knew the machine was flooded you knew what you had to do& what needed to be done,in my opinion You were intotal control & behaved rather well,To bad really though that folks in cages dont see it the way we do.Glad your okay & good job with the restart of your machine & day.later…Dom