So I'm hummin' along in my little S2000 headin' to work this morning. This guy on a ZX9R picks me up getting on the freeway and drives around me and starts messin' with me. Gets to one side of me, then brakes and falls to the other side goading me....... then sits in front of me doing 65 in the fast lane for about 4 minutes. So I get tired of that action and move to my right to pass him. I pick it up to a about 75-80ish and he decides to cross the double yellow into the HOV. When he does this, he ramps up to about 90 and leans over hard to his left. I'm watching as his tire picks up on one of those speed bump reflecting thingy's. But not the round ones, the ones that are angular. Anyways, he's leaned over so hard and hits the thing just right so it changed the angle of his bike versus where his front wheel was heading. You guessed it, he hooked up and high-sided at 90....dayum, it was ugly. I pulled in behind him as he tumbled at high speed so he didn't get his ass run over and I just kinda followed him to a stop. His bike took off to the right, and nailed a guys Explorer and totally f...ed up the left side of his vehicle and then skittered of the highway and down an embankment.
When I got to bubba, he didn't know who he was, what had happened or where he was. No gloves, t-shirt and wearing a back pack. Bad, bad, road rash, hands all carved up like a thanksgiving turkey and a possible broken back. Poor bastard. When the cops showed up they wanted me to stick it to him by telling them he was speeding, crossing the double yellow....yadda, yadda, yadda......I just told them that his bike musta malfunctioned and he went down in front of me. The guys got enough problems at this point without the cops on his ass and suckin' up all his money as well. Hope this guys O.K. and learns from this BIG mistake. I ride too, so I'm a little sympathetic. No one deserves what happened to him but he was acting the fool.

 

Actually you would have done him a favor if you told the cops what really happened, because next time he might not be so lucky and kill himself and maybe some other people.

 

I think he learned his lesson.







Peace

 

that was very nice of you to protect him like that. i dunno what i would have done because you two were messing around and all, i would be afraid he would later tell police/insurance that you caused the accident. again, i probably would have called 911 and made sure he was ok, then i woulda boned out.

 

You're right. It was a horrific enough accident without siccing the cops on his wallet. Nobody else got hurt, it was just Darwin in action.

 

Yeah....that'd definitely go into the "no good deed goes unpunished" files.

 

 

Not that I wish that on anyone but he sounds like a big karmic slap. I ride but Darwin is always seeking more squids to remove from the gene pool. What, no cell phone pics?

 

I think you did the right thing. This guy will have plenty of hospital time to figure life out. Hopefully, he will realize his mistakes, and due something about it.

 

My cell blows....I gotta replace the thing with something that was made this decade.
I just hope the guy walks again. I did something like this on my 76' CB400SS. Went down at 80 messing around on the highway. That was 30 years ago, but my back still bears the scars. I learned from that experience. I want him to get the same chance I had.