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jdinaz Offline
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Post: #21
RE: Trepidation
2 cyclists were just side swiped by a semi truck north of town. Truck was over the center line. Best news is that everybody escaped with minor injuries. I would guess that was due to an experienced rider as much as anything. I don't enjoy these kind of posts, but it is part of the deal I guess.

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04-11-2018 08:05 AM
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The ferret Offline
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Post: #22
RE: Trepidation
(04-11-2018 08:05 AM)jdinaz Wrote:  2 cyclists were just side swiped by a semi truck north of town. Truck was over the center line. Best news is that everybody escaped with minor injuries. I would guess that was due to an experienced rider as much as anything. I don't enjoy these kind of posts, but it is part of the deal I guess.

that is good news

I would hope that threads like this raise your awareness, at least for a little while. I know I will be hyper viligant on today's ride because I am thinking about it.

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04-11-2018 08:17 AM
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redbirds Offline
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Post: #23
RE: Trepidation
Quite a story ferret and understandable having trepidation using that route again. Oncoming drivers crossing the center line is becoming a real problem in my little corner of the world. Most times I see they're texting or fiddling with something on the seat. Few years back we were on a rural two lane approaching a bridge when an oncoming logging truck drifted across the center line. Since we had just started onto the bridge, the only escape was to accelerate hard and clear the bridge ahead of the semi and use the run off room on the far side. It was a close call and crossing that bridge brings back that terrifying moment every time.

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4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
04-11-2018 09:42 AM
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Blockhead Offline
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Post: #24
RE: Trepidation
That’s a crazy story ferret. I’ve read many of your posts the last few years but don’t remember seeing that one.

I do understand the trepidation you must have had when returning to the scene. I had an incident back in 2004 in Dodge Ram in State Rt. 14 outside of East Palestine Ohio.

A lady in a minivan failed to yield coming out of a side street and clipped my rear wheel as I passed her going about 55 mph. The impact catapulted me onto a guard rail upside down and then I landed in the middle of Route 14 while my truck spun around on its roof with me suspended upside down dangling by the seatbelt.

I remember the feeling of everything happening in slow motion as I saw her approaching the side of the truck knowing full well I was going to get hit and it would be an ugly experience. Luckily the seatbelt saved me from death and rendered me with a broken shoulder, several broken ribs, a concussion and a bunch of cuts from broken glass.

The strange thing was the impact where I was hit in Ohio was literally 10 feet from the Pa. border. The Pa. state trooper that arrived first at the scene left me high and dry when he examined the scene and determined that the accident actually happened in Ohio even though the vehicle was on its roof in Pa. He told me to call the Ohio Highway Patrol to make a report and drove away...couldn’t believe it.

Unfortunately I still get the creeps when I drive thru that area a couple times a week for work. Long story short, I’m glad I was in a truck and not on a bike or it would’ve likely been lights out for me.

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04-11-2018 12:08 PM
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silverbub Offline
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Post: #25
RE: Trepidation
Lots of alternative routes to ride rather than to force yourself to confront the past painful incident,., call the recent return to the "scene" as your last "pass" through that traumatic occurrence and move on to more of your daily riding "in the moments"! Enjoy the daily "living in these moments today"!... and pack & focus on the challenges ahead of you in your first & last official MLR event in next few days!... Hope to read/view some of your MLR ride...BE SAFE OUT THERE!
04-11-2018 12:40 PM
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offroadfx4 Offline
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Indiana
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Post: #26
RE: Trepidation
I'm not sure I'd have the guts to keep riding after that.

I'm glad you did though and that's just one more reason everyone holds your opinions and view points in such high regard. You've been there, done that.

How many motorcycle miles do you have....Wasn't it around a million?

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04-11-2018 09:27 PM
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The ferret Offline
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Post: #27
RE: Trepidation
Lol no not quite Offroad, but I'm about 3/4 of the way there by my calculations based on records I've kept since 2006. I figure 5k a year for the years 65-68 while I was in high school riding to and after school and on weekends. 10K a year for the years 69-71 when I was out of high school riding to work and on weekends. 20K a year for the years 72-89 when I was commuting to work every day, riding on weekends and riding on out of state trips every year. 10K a year for the years 90-13 when I was not commuting but only riding after work, on weekends and on riding vacations, 25k a year for the years 14-17 after I retired, riding daily, weekends and taking riding vacations, and 5K so far in 18 riding daily and on weekends ( vacations yet to come). If I add right that's 750K.

Won't make a million. That would take 10 more years at 25K a year. Not going to happen. My goal is to ride 2 more years until I am 70. IF I can manage to make 5 more years at 25K a year it would only add 125 K.

Still, I've had a great life on two wheels. Been fun and a true blessing I must say. Enjoyed every mile.

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04-12-2018 10:52 AM
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Nortoon Offline
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Post: #28
RE: Trepidation
[quote='Rocky' pid='201522' dateline='1523458625']
People just don't know how to drive.[quote]

They do, they just don't bother anymore because they are always in a hurry.

On the back roads I am always prepared for someone a little over the line on curves.

What is worse is narrow roads with no center lines. Now you have to worry about oncoming vehicles in the curves, and on the other side of the hills.

On the highways the first car doesn't make me nervous. It is the impatient driver sitting on his bumper waiting to pass. I usually move away from the center so they have a chance to see me before they wildly pull out. Unfortunately that type does not usually brake and pull back in. They just stomp on the gas pedal and hope for the best.
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04-12-2018 02:36 PM
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SportsterDoc Offline
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New Mexico
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Post: #29
RE: Trepidation
Most of us long term riders have an intersection story.
Glad of your outcome, after the crash.

My first was April 13, 1963, 55 years tomorrow.
Winnetka and Saticoy, in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, was only two lanes at the time and the SW corner was a Texaco station.

https://www.google.com/maps/dir//34.2080...m2!4m1!3e0

A northbound 18 wheeler made a left, without signaling (engine trouble) and I (southbound) slide into and bounced off one of the tires. Not a scratch, bruise, abrasion...just a spinal injury, requiring a body cast...only 1.6 miles from home.

Rode through that intersection 100s of times since, and I think that day, each time.

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04-12-2018 04:29 PM
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Pauley Offline
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Post: #30
RE: Trepidation
Thanks for sharing this with us, Ferret. It's a sobering reminder to always be vigilant.... and wear a full face helmet.
04-12-2018 04:35 PM
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