nickcaro
03-07-2009, 09:27 PM
Well, it was just a matter of time and I'm happy to have made it through another one. Spend enough time on the road like I do, and eventually it will happen.
Sitting at a red light Friday night I got plowed from behind by a distracted driver. Thanks to many factors in my favor, I was still able to ride home.
I'm a paranoid person and I'm sure years of drug use in my youth helped contribute to that. I'm constantly looking to see what everyone is doing around me and I take great pride in seeing the **** as its coming. Friday night sitting at a red light, I suddenly heard screeching tires behind me. Looked down to my right mirror and was horrified to see the headlights just coming at me like a missile.
As part of my paranoia, I always leave large areas in front and around me in case I need to get away and now I'm faced with that exact situation. In a split hair of a second I scan and realize that I only have about 15 feet in front of me to the next car and cant go anywhere left or right, so I knew I was going to get popped... at the last moment I looked back in my mirror, and decided to just lurch forward with the hit and hopefully not get sandwiched with the car in front.
The hit was much stronger than I expected and when everything stopped I was feeling pretty good to still be on the Spyder and not somewhere else. Although my back and neck are very sore today from the thrust, I'm ok.
The Spyder took the hit square on the back tire and left a strong imprint on the bumper of a Toyota. White paint from the bumper was clearly on my tire and spread over more than half of the tire showing that my tire was spinning while we made contact. Other than that, its all good.
I'm very happy about modding my rear fender as my tire worked like a large bumper. If the stock fender was in place It would have been ugly. I can imagine it being pushed in to the tire, brackets being busted..etc..
The car left a skid mark that was close to 20 yards long and I came to a stop about 10 feet in front of her. It was just amazing. Even the police were amazed and had me sit down as they looked me over with a flashlight.
After the cops filled out the paperwork I was able to ride home.
Shaken up, sore and filled with awe at how I was just able to ride away from that.
Sitting at a red light Friday night I got plowed from behind by a distracted driver. Thanks to many factors in my favor, I was still able to ride home.
I'm a paranoid person and I'm sure years of drug use in my youth helped contribute to that. I'm constantly looking to see what everyone is doing around me and I take great pride in seeing the **** as its coming. Friday night sitting at a red light, I suddenly heard screeching tires behind me. Looked down to my right mirror and was horrified to see the headlights just coming at me like a missile.
As part of my paranoia, I always leave large areas in front and around me in case I need to get away and now I'm faced with that exact situation. In a split hair of a second I scan and realize that I only have about 15 feet in front of me to the next car and cant go anywhere left or right, so I knew I was going to get popped... at the last moment I looked back in my mirror, and decided to just lurch forward with the hit and hopefully not get sandwiched with the car in front.
The hit was much stronger than I expected and when everything stopped I was feeling pretty good to still be on the Spyder and not somewhere else. Although my back and neck are very sore today from the thrust, I'm ok.
The Spyder took the hit square on the back tire and left a strong imprint on the bumper of a Toyota. White paint from the bumper was clearly on my tire and spread over more than half of the tire showing that my tire was spinning while we made contact. Other than that, its all good.
I'm very happy about modding my rear fender as my tire worked like a large bumper. If the stock fender was in place It would have been ugly. I can imagine it being pushed in to the tire, brackets being busted..etc..
The car left a skid mark that was close to 20 yards long and I came to a stop about 10 feet in front of her. It was just amazing. Even the police were amazed and had me sit down as they looked me over with a flashlight.
After the cops filled out the paperwork I was able to ride home.
Shaken up, sore and filled with awe at how I was just able to ride away from that.