Goose of the Week (Lucky Prick)
Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 12:05 pm
I met goose of the week this morning.
Riding to work there's a bike pulled up on the footpath on the other side of the road.
Pull up to see if the guy needs a hand, and he's had an accident.
Learner on a CBRRRRRRR.
ZERO GEAR except kevlar jeans.
Still in shock, adrenalin flowing, shaking a bit. Bloody fingers, bloody knee where the kevlar broke, arm and shoulder but not too bad really, in fact, bloody amazing that's the only injuries he has. As we chatted and the adrenalin started to subside as he relaxed things started hurting more.
He was coming down a hill too close to the car in front and not paying attention. Car turns left into a driveway, he locks the rear, tries to steer around the car and the rear slides left and tip him off to the right. He rolls 5 m down his lane near the center line, car passes on the other side of the road
and a semi stops 5m before he runs him over
Truck drive helps him get the bike up and off the road and heads straight off, I arrived a few mins later.
I stayed with him for about half an hour making sure he was ok, going through what happened, looking over the damage to his bike and discussing how to get it on the road and get him home, working out his wiring problem, lecturing him about how good this crash was, how lucky he is, how he's foolish to have no gear on (he had his gloves in his bag
) that he should practice his emergency braking, not follow too close, his rear brake lever is waaaay too high no wonder he locked up the rear I couldn't get me foot with boot above it without depressing the rear brake etc etc
When I had a go at him about no gear, he said he didn't want to be late for uni (an hours ride) Like the 20 seconds to put his gloves on was half an hour 
Anyways, lucky guy, because hopefully he's learnt his lesson and it didn't hurt too much.
Riding to work there's a bike pulled up on the footpath on the other side of the road.
Pull up to see if the guy needs a hand, and he's had an accident.
Learner on a CBRRRRRRR.
ZERO GEAR except kevlar jeans.
Still in shock, adrenalin flowing, shaking a bit. Bloody fingers, bloody knee where the kevlar broke, arm and shoulder but not too bad really, in fact, bloody amazing that's the only injuries he has. As we chatted and the adrenalin started to subside as he relaxed things started hurting more.
He was coming down a hill too close to the car in front and not paying attention. Car turns left into a driveway, he locks the rear, tries to steer around the car and the rear slides left and tip him off to the right. He rolls 5 m down his lane near the center line, car passes on the other side of the road
and a semi stops 5m before he runs him over Truck drive helps him get the bike up and off the road and heads straight off, I arrived a few mins later.
I stayed with him for about half an hour making sure he was ok, going through what happened, looking over the damage to his bike and discussing how to get it on the road and get him home, working out his wiring problem, lecturing him about how good this crash was, how lucky he is, how he's foolish to have no gear on (he had his gloves in his bag
) that he should practice his emergency braking, not follow too close, his rear brake lever is waaaay too high no wonder he locked up the rear I couldn't get me foot with boot above it without depressing the rear brake etc etc When I had a go at him about no gear, he said he didn't want to be late for uni (an hours ride)
Like the 20 seconds to put his gloves on was half an hour Anyways, lucky guy, because hopefully he's learnt his lesson and it didn't hurt too much.
i had one the other day as i turned off the highway into the servo heading towards the bowser when this p-plater left his bowser ,done a u-turn and come seconds from looking like one of the grasshopers on my trucks bullbar,i gave him the f@#ckin idiot fist but it didnt seem to worry him.He didnt deserve to be riding a new Kawasaki like he was. 
but the paper work involved in doing so is unbelievable