Close call.

[Ratmick]

On the topic of falling off and/or being cleaned up by wildlife.

I was nearly cleared up by a loose wheel last Friday. I was motoring up a hill going north out of Woodend and a wheel with a smoking hub bounced out of a blind intersection and across the road in front of me. Luckily it missed, and when I was able to see down the road it came from there was a car with a one-wheeled trailer and a couple of guys looking a bit non-plussed.

Interestingly they didn't seem to give a shit that their tyre nearly took me out, nor were they interested where the wheel ended up. Pricks .

Would have made an interesting insurance claim, assuming I was around to make it...

[Gosling1]

You should have ridden up to the pricks and given them a gobful. Lucky it didn't take you out !!!

[Adel]

Whats goin on, this is the 3rd close call I had to reply to in 4 days, you think someone tryina tell us somethin
anyway glad your ok

[mick_dundee]

Had this kinda thing happen a bit lately.. thought it was just me and the cagers trying to take me out

2 weeks ago, turned into Nicholson st and truck loses a gas bottle, comes rolling down the hill BBQ type gas bottle not Oxy/Acetylene type bottle incidentally.

Week before that traffic slowing up on the Bolte bridge and ute reversing down the emeergency lane, turns out he lost a ladder off the ute, far canal, glad I don't sit too close to these ppl..

[bonester]

A mate of mine got hit by a trailer wheel that came off the trailer @80km/h. He was walking along a road in Willowbank (Ipswich) with a woman. The woman saw it coming, but he didn't. She pulled him in front of her (otherwise he would not have been hit) and the wheel hit him in the pelvis, and as she was behind him, he hit her with such force that her stomach blew up like she was 9 months pregnant.
$30000 later in legal costs, he was awarded less than $4000 in damages. He's totally stuffed- struggles to ride his Moto Guzzi. Can't start his Mach IV. (kick start) Hasn't been able to work since the accident (about 5 years ago) in pain every day, is affected by the weather, can't walk properly, and I imagine maybe sexual problems too- he says he can be walking along the street, and all of a sudden it feels like someone has stabbed him in the old fella! All of this because someone was kind enough to see a tyre coming and pull him in front of her. Trailer was unregistered. I think if my mate was better off financially he may have been able to get better representation, but with limited means he was buggered. I reckon his injuries must be worth at least a couple of hundred thousand in lost wages and pain and suffering. Apparently Queensland has a low cap on personal injury claims.
Lucky you didn't get hit, huh!

[mike-s]

furk that, i mean, seriously.

[rotaboy]

A mate of mine got hit by a trailer wheel that came off the trailer @80km/h. He was walking along a road in Willowbank (Ipswich) with a woman. The woman saw it coming, but he didn't. She pulled him in front of her (otherwise he would not have been hit) and the wheel hit him in the pelvis, and as she was behind him, he hit her with such force that her stomach blew up like she was 9 months pregnant.
$30000 later in legal costs, he was awarded less than $4000 in damages. He's totally stuffed- struggles to ride his Moto Guzzi. Can't start his Mach IV. (kick start) Hasn't been able to work since the accident (about 5 years ago) in pain every day, is affected by the weather, can't walk properly, and I imagine maybe sexual problems too- he says he can be walking along the street, and all of a sudden it feels like someone has stabbed him in the old fella! All of this because someone was kind enough to see a tyre coming and pull him in front of her. Trailer was unregistered. I think if my mate was better off financially he may have been able to get better representation, but with limited means he was buggered. I reckon his injuries must be worth at least a couple of hundred thousand in lost wages and pain and suffering. Apparently Queensland has a low cap on personal injury claims.
Lucky you didn't get hit, huh!

Mate i dont think it was the money that got him bad legal i think it was actually the solicitor...
when i had my accident it ended up costing my 22k but ended up with 100k in the bank
injuries i recieved was a broken knee cap which need operating on and it ended my cycling career

[Glen]

Farkin glad you avoided it mate.

Fucksteds who run around in unroadworthy shit or towing unroadworthy shit are as bad as drink drivers and child molesters I reckon.

[mfzx6r]

good to see you got through OK Mick


now HTFU

[jewjew]

Rat,
when i was younger, i had a trailer snap the "v" off in from of me while i was driving behind it. I jammed on the breaks (from about 60) and the thing was zigzaging down the road in front of me, then one side grabbed and it spun, lifted a wheel spun some more and started going backwards. I was packing big ones

glad you're ok mate......

must be Honda Karma