Re: Hit by car -- only 16 days old!

[Rich Weyand <weyand@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ah, shit.  (And all I've read is the subject line....)

At 02:59 PM 12/6/99 -0500, Bill Flowers wrote:
>Last night on the way home from dropping something at the office, I
>turned left onto a 4-lane (2 each way) road at the same time an opposing
>driver turned right.  OK, I made a mistake.

Yup.  Mistake, though not your fault in a legal sense.  I brought this up on rec.moto just last week:

Rich Weyand wrote: 
 > 
 > Bama Brian wrote: 
 > > 
 > > Rich, there's some unfortunate reality in your post. In Germany, 
 > > people are much more disciplined about how they drive. Here 
 > > in the U.S. "Keep right except to pass" means nothing to the 
 > > typical driver. For example, have you ever approached a driveway 
 > > with a car about to pull out, moved to the left lane to avoid it, and had 
 > > it pull out across the road into your lane, in front of you? I've 
 > > had this one happen while I was driving Brutus Bronco! 
 > 
 > Yup. Also, people at intersections who always turn into the far lane 
 > when turning. I have even seen them turn into the far lane, then change 
 > lanes back into the one they should have turned into! I have had people 
 > appear to have coronaries when I make a turn into the closer (my) lane 
 > while they are oncoming and turning into the same two-lane street. Why? 
 > *I* am not taking *their* lane. (P.S.: Do *not* do this on the mc!)

I am really sorry to hear about the accident, and glad that you're mostly OK.  

WRT the bike, I am not sure if the fact that it was in break-in makes it better or worse insofar as the oil starvation goes.  I think I would want them to pull the heads and check the valves and bores at a minimum.


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