Kissed the asphalt today

Life Cars & Motorcycles
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[quote=“belgian pie”]This morning the guy who caused my accident came by and payed me 35k, 15k more than he would have payed on Monday.

Majesty is fixed and will cost approx. 8-10k, hospital probably 3k, so I got some money for the days I had to close the business, not enough I think personally but couldn’t have it better I guess.

Shoulder’s still painfull depending on how I move and use force.

My wife just told me that if you didn’t go to the police within 5 days to report an accident there is no way you could ever get it filed again.[/quote]

Wow…lucky guy. You have a guy cause you to crash without touching you…he could have easily driven away and the police wouldn’t have pursued it. Meanwhile, I get rear ended while stopped due to traffic and the guy’s suing me.

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Well … lucky me I guess … but the shoulder has still to heal. :s

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So did I today. A car passed me in a curve inside the Dajong tunnel and he basically pushed me against the concrete wall as he did not seem to be able to take the turn properly. I slammed on the breaks but it was too late. Lost control. Got a few scratches here and there, a nasty bump on my left arm and a very sore left foot. The scooter survived well. Lucky there was no cars behind me as I rolled right into the middle of the tunnel. Scooters and cars drove by as I was picking myself and my bike up and no one stopped to offer help. One car actually honked at me. :noway: The poorly skilled driver never even slowed down either, s/he just drove off. :s

No broken bones, nothing serious. Hopefully I don’t stiffen up too much after a night of sleep. Aargh!

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So did I today. A car passed me in a curve inside the Dajong tunnel and he basically pushed me against the concrete wall…[/quote]

There’s your problem. Try doing twice the speed limit all of the time and you’ll never have to worry about cars passing you. And although I’m half joking…I’m also half serious.
I’m guessing someone will make a joke about me being half an idiot

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So did I today. A car passed me in a curve inside the Dajong tunnel and he basically pushed me against the concrete wall as he did not seem to be able to take the turn properly. I slammed on the breaks but it was too late. Lost control. Got a few scratches here and there, a nasty bump on my left arm and a very sore left foot. The scooter survived well. Lucky there was no cars behind me as I rolled right into the middle of the tunnel. Scooters and cars drove by as I was picking myself and my bike up and no one stopped to offer help. One car actually honked at me. :noway: The poorly skilled driver never even slowed down either, s/he just drove off. :s

No broken bones, nothing serious. Hopefully I don’t stiffen up too much after a night of sleep. Aargh![/quote]

Glad to hear you are ok…You just never know do you?

Yesterday I was heading off to see one of our suppliers on the Ninja, and turned right on a major intersection straight onto about a 3 meter wide by 10 meter long stretch of oil on the road. I wasn’t going fast but it didn’t matter, the second the front tire hit the oil it was gone, and I struggled for a good 10 seconds to keep me footing and not drop the bike. The patch was so slick I couldn’t even stand on it, and that short waltz of bike and man must have looked pretty comical. No injury other than a large bruise on the calf where I skewered it with the footpeg.

Of course there is a motorcycle shop right next to the patch, and it was easy to see where the oil had come from…The idiots had just dumped it out on the road. The old timer behind me wasn’t so lucky though, and did a major face plant as soon as he hit it. So did the other 4 scooters that followed. I finally got my footing, parked the bike on the side of the road, and helped the old codger to his feet. The swear words that came out of the ancient mouth were astounding, and when he stomped off to confront the motorcycle shop owner I figured justice will be served and left.

The thought of that old dude chasing the shop owner around with a crescent wrench makes my day. After returning to my factory, I found out that this corner is crash central…Gee, I wonder why :loco:

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Woah~ sorry to hear you went down…

still, glad to hear you’re ok and that at least the stupid driver seems to be cooperating… hope that it stays that way…

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[quote=“MJB”]

Glad to hear you are ok…You just never know do you?

Yesterday I was heading off to see one of our suppliers on the Ninja, and turned right on a major intersection straight onto about a 3 meter wide by 10 meter long stretch of oil on the road. I wasn’t going fast but it didn’t matter, the second the front tire hit the oil it was gone, and I struggled for a good 10 seconds to keep me footing and not drop the bike. The patch was so slick I couldn’t even stand on it, and that short waltz of bike and man must have looked pretty comical. No injury other than a large bruise on the calf where I skewered it with the footpeg.

Of course there is a motorcycle shop right next to the patch, and it was easy to see where the oil had come from…The idiots had just dumped it out on the road. The old timer behind me wasn’t so lucky though, and did a major face plant as soon as he hit it. So did the other 4 scooters that followed. I finally got my footing, parked the bike on the side of the road, and helped the old codger to his feet. The swear words that came out of the ancient mouth were astounding, and when he stomped off to confront the motorcycle shop owner I figured justice will be served and left.

The thought of that old dude chasing the shop owner around with a crescent wrench makes my day. After returning to my factory, I found out that this corner is crash central…Gee, I wonder why :loco:[/quote]

WOAH?!? Did you think for a second that maybe the motorbike shop puts the oil there on purpose…and that the 5 scooters you saw crash might need to buy parts from them to get their scooters moving again. So they put oil on the road…and almost smashed up your 300k+ bike…and you were content to let an old man yell at them?!? Show me where this corner is…I’ll swing by there on a regular basis and the first time I see oil on it…well…let’s just say I won’t just “yell” at them. Seriously.

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Wow! Bobepine, MJB, glad to hear you’re both basically ok…

MJB, perhaps anonymous calls to the police and EPA about the oil dumpers would help?

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Why anonymous??

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wow… :astonished: … Sounds like it’s been a bad week for two wheeled forumosans…

Hope you recover sooner rather than later BP, at least you were lucky enough to tangle with an idiot who’s got enough cash to handle the repercussions of his piss poor driving ability… seems more often than not the cretins who are the most reckless and cause the accidents are from flat broke hick families who manage to persuade the police they have no cash to pay for the damage they cause… (funny though, you’d think they’d have some cash left over from buying the car/bike…)

MJB you’re a more forgiving soul than I am… If there was the slightest chance the oil was from the bike shop, deliberate or not, I’d have had the cops over there along with as many cameras as TVBS could muster… If it were just you, and only a near miss the store would no doubt be able to sweep it under the “useless police” carpet, but a bunch of people going down like that on oil that must’ve come from somewhere is dramatic enough to be “newsworthy” reducing the cops ability to pretend nothing happened… glad to hear you managed to keep your bike in one piece though… sounds like quite a heroic save… :bravo:

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[quote=“plasmatron”]If it were just you, and only a near miss the store would no doubt be able to sweep it under the “useless police” carpet, but a bunch of people going down like that on oil that must’ve come from somewhere is dramatic enough to be “newsworthy” reducing the cops ability to pretend nothing happened…[/quote]Unless there is an eye witness willing to come forward to say he/she saw the shop owner put the oil there, I predict that the cops are going to be able to shrug their shoulders and utter useless platitudes indefinitely.

[quote]glad to hear you managed to keep your bike in one piece though… sounds like quite a heroic save… :bravo:[/quote]x2

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Bopepine and MJB: sorry to hear about this, but very glad the results were no worse. Hope the aches and bruises heal soon.

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I’d like to know where it is so I can do some drifting in the car and have an excuse for it.

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[quote=“redwagon”][quote=“plasmatron”]If it were just you, and only a near miss the store would no doubt be able to sweep it under the “useless police” carpet, but a bunch of people going down like that on oil that must’ve come from somewhere is dramatic enough to be “newsworthy” reducing the cops ability to pretend nothing happened…[/quote]Unless there is an eye witness willing to come forward to say he/she saw the shop owner put the oil there, I predict that the cops are going to be able to shrug their shoulders and utter useless platitudes indefinitely.

I’m the witness. I saw him on the street dumping it in the early hours of the morning. My girlfriend saw it too. Phone me if you need us.

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Glad you guys are ok!

BP… Same thing happened to me after getting nailed by a Taxi a while back. I ended up in the middle of the intersection (Civic blvd @ traffic hour). Did anyone bother to help? hell no. Did mufuggers start honking? yep. Happened right in front of a damn cop station too… needless to say, fuggin useless.

Not too long ago, I helped an older lady scooter-er off the street after she got clipped by a car. Looked like a damn yard sale by the time I rolled up to the scene – ran over groceries 'n shit everywhere. No one bothered to help or at least tried to reroute traffic… AND there were at least a few dozen people just standing there on the sidewalk watching the cars zoom by her. After getting the lady safely up to the sidewalk, a dude walks up and has the nerve to hand me his phone… telling ME to call the cops. I asked him if the phone was working… (he didnt get the question)… so then I asked him how long had he been holding that phone in his hand… and told him to go fuck himself. :loco:

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[quote=“zerosum”]Glad you guys are ok!

BP… Same thing happened to me after getting nailed by a Taxi a while back. I ended up in the middle of the intersection (Civic blvd @ traffic hour). Did anyone bother to help? hell no. Did mufuggers start honking? yep. Happened right in front of a damn cop station too… needless to say, fuggin useless.

Not too long ago, I helped an older lady scooter-er off the street after she got clipped by a car. Looked like a damn yard sale by the time I rolled up to the scene – ran over groceries 'n shit everywhere. No one bothered to help or at least tried to reroute traffic… AND there were at least a few dozen people just standing there on the sidewalk watching the cars zoom by her. After getting the lady safely up to the sidewalk, a dude walks up and has the nerve to hand me his phone… telling ME to call the cops. I asked him if the phone was working… (he didnt get the question)… so then I asked him how long had he been holding that phone in his hand… and told him to go fuck himself. :loco:[/quote]

I’m halfway through the movie “Hotel Rawanda”…people…are not good. If aliens were to come right now and exterminate the whole human race…I’d understand perfectly. I’d help them…and then I’d gladly kill myself as well. Humans as a species have failed.

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Well Geez… I wiped out AGAIN today. Quite worse than last time, too. This time I was going faster, about 75km/hr.

No one there, just me to blame for this. I can’t even blame the scooter or the tires. The scooter is/was top shape and the tires are brand new with the right pressure and everything. I blame those goddamn white lines that they paint over with black paint when they change them. I know the white lines are slick, but at least you can see them! :fume: Still, I should have known better…

It was just starting to rain, and I was on my way to work from my afternoon school to my evening school. It was 4:10pm. I was riding under the freeway, about 80km/hr. That part of the drive is always quiet, it’s a wide open road and there are no other roads crossing it, and no houses next to it. In other words, it’s as safe as it gets to go fast, but maybe not in the rain. The rain had just begun and for the whole stretch I was riding dry pavement under the overpass/freeway. At the end of this stretch of road, the freeway veers to the left and that’s when I had to start riding on wet pavement. The road also veers, but very slightly to the left.

I layed off the throttle, slowed down to about 75km/hr and I leaned the bike accordingly, but then I hit a pretty bad pot hole. The bouncing movement threw the weight off my rear wheel and off I went. Slip sliding for about 20 feet as I was trying to keep the bike up (20 feet at 75kn/hr takes 1/2 a second btw.), but before I knew it, I went down. The road was not even that wet, it had just started to rain.

Sore shoulder, neck, leg and wrist, bashed right elbow(skin only, bone is ok), missing bits and pieces of skin on both arms and scrapes all over my abdomen and my back.

The bike did not survive as well as last time either. Bashed front panel, damaged disk break cover, paint damages on the front fender and on the metal rack around the headlights, damaged handlebars and destroyed storage box.

My head hit the ground pretty hard, and my helmet has nasty scratches all along the side of it. I don’t even want to think about what would have happened to my face and my teeth, had I been wearing an eggshell helmet as opposed to a full-face helmet. My helmet is a flip-up-chin type helmet. It did the job very well.

I lost my riding confidence today… And my pride. I’m officially a poor rider. 4 crashes in three years living in Taiwan. :s

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“The road was not even that wet, it had just started to rain.”
Worst. Road. Condition. Ever.
Glad you’re well enough to type!

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[quote=“sandman”]“The road was not even that wet, it had just started to rain.”
Worst. Road. Condition. Ever.[/quote]… especially after a long dry spell. A light sprinkle of water on top of oil and tire leftovers is like a skating rink. Give me a good downpour anytime.
Call yourself lucky there wasn’t a truck or something to make you into a permanent road marking.

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[quote=“redwagon”][quote=“sandman”]“The road was not even that wet, it had just started to rain.”
Worst. Road. Condition. Ever.[/quote]… especially after a long dry spell. A light sprinkle of water on top of oil and tire leftovers is like a skating rink. Give me a good downpour anytime.
Call yourself lucky there wasn’t a truck or something to make you into a permanent road marking.[/quote]

I guess you can say I found out the hard way… I remember, almost twenty years ago when I passed my driving test, there was a mention about how extra slick the roads are when it’s just slightly wet. I never thought about that. I drive that road everyday, rain or shine. It was a pretty stupid thing to do, and yes, I’m lucky that I’m not in a hospital bed or worse right now.

I looked at where I slipped, and it was one of these black painted lines. I think that’s what initiated the slip. But as I was trying to keep the bike up, it was slipping back and forth like if I was indeed on ice. Stuuupid me. :s