A couple of close calls

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I had a couple close calls this past weekend.

First was Saturday night, riding south on Jarvis, waiting to make a left onto Gerrard. Waiting in the left lane with my blinker on, and in the oncoming left lane, a car also sat waiting to make a left turn. I checked that the oncoming right lane was also clear, and cautiously made my move to turn. Behind the oncoming left turn car, a rider rolled up, got impatient, and decided to make a quick move around the right and blew through the intersection while I was turning, almost taking me out in the process. Good job!. *sarcastic slow clap*

I should also mention his emergency stopping technique involved taking *both* feet off the pegs. Again, much sarcastic slow-clapping.


The other was when I was riding eastbound on the QEW late yesterday afternoon with a couple buddies in stagger formation in the left lane, me bringing up the rear. A woman in a blue Civic on my left decided she wanted my lane, and just changed over right beside me. I was right next to her driver-side door, so I wasn't even in her blindspot or anything. Ended up swerving onto the shoulder, then accelerated to get out in front of her and back with my group.

Crazy thing is, most people who accidentally cut people off tend to sheepishly drop back, switch lanes, etc. Not this one - she still tailgated me until we changed lanes and let her pass. Amazing stuff.
 
well it is her road,.... and you were obviously in her way,..... and impeding her flow..... sheesh..... ;)
 
Just make sure you're keeping your radar on full alert.


I had a guy turn right from a side road right in front of me on Hwy 7 on Saturday. Good visibility, I wasn't going too fast, not much traffic so no need for him to push his way in front of me. I just don't think he saw me. The interesting part was that he was riding a BMW sporttourer. Oh, and then he proceeds to ride just below the speed limit and then takes the next right. Dickwad.
 
Had one lady going down donlands, was waiting for a gap in the parked cars in the right lane to pass her, out of no where she slammed the breaks. Her excuse was that she saw me coming fast (45 on the needle) and was trying to let me pas...by slamming the brakes and stopping beside a parked car...a few days later i tried passing someone, who swerved in my lane to intentionally cut me off. at the light he starts going off about how i was on the wrong kind of bike to try and pass him. his asian girlfriend was mortified....i asked him what his problem was, he said i shouldn't try to pass him. asked him if he was a cop, he didn't answer. he opens his door and pulls out a tire iron from the center console of his car. ..thought about feeding it to him, seing as he was 5'4 100lbs and maybe 18....but then he'll tell the cop that the big hairy biker was hitting on his girlfriend, broke into his trunk and beat his *** with his own tire iron. Oh and that i'm a 1% and planted the crack in his car.
 
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OP - this goes to confirm what I think - dickwads ride bikes too.

Oh, and for the tailgater. I usually find if I slow down taking my time and watching them in the mirrors and then turn and stare at them over my shoulder for a second or too - thats enough to get them to back off..

But women drivers I often find have more "Attitude" to give you back, so watch out.
 
I didn't post this up before but a week ago I was eastbound on the 401 just near brockville and there was roadworks and a huge tailback in the westbound lanes...I saw a minivan get impatient and drive the wrong way up the westbound on ramp. I cringed and drove on but this on ramp had blind curves on it.
 
kiwi said:
OP - this goes to confirm what I think - dickwads ride bikes too.

Oh, and for the tailgater. I usually find if I slow down taking my time and watching them in the mirrors and then turn and stare at them over my shoulder for a second or too - thats enough to get them to back off..

But women drivers I often find have more "Attitude" to give you back, so watch out.
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+1....especially middle age woman in minivans. Not being a sexist here. :)
 
+1 Cabbies are the first on my hazardous vehicle list, then come red dodge caravans (usually making fubar left turns)
 
kiwi said:
OP - this goes to confirm what I think - dickwads ride bikes too.

Oh, and for the tailgater. I usually find if I slow down taking my time and watching them in the mirrors and then turn and stare at them over my shoulder for a second or too - thats enough to get them to back off..

But women drivers I often find have more "Attitude" to give you back, so watch out.
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I tried my whole stare over the shoulder thing, she just kept on tailing. I thought about slowing down, but after the way she just pushed me off the road, I thought she might just hit me if I slowed down.

As she drove by I also stared through her passenger window, and as she passed my buddy he gave her a "pay attention you moron" hand signal, but she of course ignored it all - just stared forward and kept barreling down the left lane.

I'm convinced that with some bad drivers, nothing we do is going to matter. You can't stare them down because they're too oblivious to notice. If you brake they might just run up on you (and probably won't notice the brake lights anyway). You can lay on your horn but they won't notice or think it's for someone else. If a driver is just that bad and oblivious, all you can do is stay out of their way.
 
I almost nailed a transport truck on the forks yesterday.

Came around the hairpin (going up) and rolled on through the next r-hander to find a semi with trailer reversing right there!
 
zeniceguy said:
I almost nailed a transport truck on the forks yesterday.

Came around the hairpin (going up) and rolled on through the next r-hander to find a semi with trailer reversing right there!
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Isn't there a sign saying no trucks allowed...?
 
Sabex said:
Isn't there a sign saying no trucks allowed...?
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His GPS told him it was OK

Full of spelling and grammatical errors because or was sent from tapatalk.
 
Paulhv1 said:
His GPS told him it was OK

Full of spelling and grammatical errors because or was sent from tapatalk.
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They've still got damn eyes...
Signs on the side of the road > gps.

Maybe someone should make a damn GPS made specifically for big rigs, that knows to avoid roads like the forks/rattlesnake point/etc.
 
zeniceguy said:
I stoped him and asked wtf he was doing and was told, "sorry, went wrong way"
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At least he realized it was his fault, and didn't blame it on the GPS.
 
Unfortunately my brother-in-law was not so lucky yesterday, he was returning home from work traveling east bound on 14TH just east of Warden. He was traveling at approx. 50KM in the left lane in full blocking position when the car the is a car length in front of him in the right hand lane decides he is going to pull a u turn!!! No signal nothing, cuts right in front of my bro-in law and he proceeds to t-bone the car. He had absolutely no chance to evade or avoid and he's been riding for over 20 years. The impact sends him flying over the car and he lands on his back, dusts himself off a little dazed and confused but otherwise okay. Here is the kicker, the driver has the audacity to say he was driving too fast and was barely remorseful. Needless to say his R1200GS is a complete right off, he did go to the hospital and went through a bevy of cat scans and xrays, other than some general soreness he is okay. Personally I would have beaten that cager to a pulp with my helmet if I got up from that accident.

Stay alert and stay safe everyone, we are an after thought on the roads it seems.

pouk
 
ShaqX7 said:
+1 Cabbies are the first on my hazardous vehicle list, then come red dodge caravans (usually making fubar left turns)
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You forgot driver's ed gold/silver corollas on your list lol.
 
poukali said:
Unfortunately my brother-in-law was not so lucky yesterday, he was returning home from work traveling east bound on 14TH just east of Warden. He was traveling at approx. 50KM in the left lane in full blocking position when the car the is a car length in front of him in the right hand lane decides he is going to pull a u turn!!! No signal nothing, cuts right in front of my bro-in law and he proceeds to t-bone the car. He had absolutely no chance to evade or avoid and he's been riding for over 20 years. The impact sends him flying over the car and he lands on his back, dusts himself off a little dazed and confused but otherwise okay. Here is the kicker, the driver has the audacity to say he was driving too fast and was barely remorseful. Needless to say his R1200GS is a complete right off, he did go to the hospital and went through a bevy of cat scans and xrays, other than some general soreness he is okay. Personally I would have beaten that cager to a pulp with my helmet if I got up from that accident.

Stay alert and stay safe everyone, we are an after thought on the roads it seems.

pouk
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Are you kidding me, I don't know how your brotherinlaw kept his cool, I would've went off
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