Close-Calls   ::r{{

[pyrrhic]

<span style='font-size:15pt;line-height:100%'><span style='color:red'>My Close Call</span></span>
It was a cold winter evening and I was heading home from the club. I don't drink so no worries there. The two directions of the road is separated by the highway support beams making the intersection under a overpass. Kind of confusing, huh. Oh by the way this is in Japan so traffic runs the opposite way as the states.(try to keep up).
I was riding a  HONDA CRM250R because my first Busa was stolen(that was not close at all, it was gone). I was coming up to this intersection where there were several cars making a right turn,(again this IS Japan,if I were in the states these cars are making a left turn. Ya with me still) not one turning lane but two lanes. As I get closer there's more cars turning. I look up at the light, low-N-behold the light is green.
I let off the gas then started flashing my high beams to say I'm coming through. I thought to myself I could go through right after this taxi goes by. The taxi stops right in the middle of my path, in a spilt second I grab my clutch,grab my brake, and must have did this after I mashed my foot brake. Things started to seem like they were in slow motion. My back wheel began to slide out to my right, yes they were locked up. All I could see was the taxis door getting closer quickly. I'm not sure if I downshifted but I , somehow, let off the back brake the bike stood back up and barely made it around the front of the taxi. With my disbelief of what just happened and bike still rolling I took a hard look at the taxi driver,like you bleeping-bleep bleep-bleep, the looked forward and a car in the second turning lane almost  slammed into the side of me, but stopping just in time.

I got through the intersection unscathed but I did pull over to get my heart to stop pounding a hole through my chest.

Close Call or what.

 

[pyrrhic]

Noone has had close-call before?

 No0ne has just barly missed it ?

Or is this posted somewhere else, cause I havent seen it.
So what if its a long story, come-on give to us.

 

[pyrrhic]

maybe this needs to be moved to <span style='color:firebrick'>General Bike Related</span> Topics. MOD ?

 

[slammiam]

1997, virginia beach,VA, HOV lane, 140mph+, '96 cbr600, exiting onto 44, slight lean, tire tread in the road, tank slapper, regained control...seemed fine. I stopped at my friends house to inspect my bike, the front rim was dented about 1/2" in, almost broke the seal...talk about close.

 

[busabad]

Heading south on I-95, making Eastern Ave. exit in Baltimore doing about a buck but starting to slow down...I see a car ahead stopped in the median between I-95 traffic and the exit lane...I say to myself, driver must have some sort of issue but as they are completely stopped and not in travel lane this is not going to be an issue for me...I continue on in the exit lane now traveling at about 75-80 mph...as I start to get closer the driver pulls out ever so slowly into my exit lane
I'm immediately applying hard brakes running through my options...which are few at this point...the bike slows quickly
thank god and I get down to about 20-30 mph just as I come up behind this nitwit...basically, end of close call. This happened almost 20 years ago, I remember it just like it was yesterday and it was the single most important event in my motorcycling experience that taught me the respect I needed to have to be a safe motorcyclist...
Ride safe...

 

[pyrrhic]

1997, virginia beach,VA, HOV lane, 140mph+, '96 cbr600, exiting onto 44, slight lean, tire tread in the road, tank slapper, regained control...seemed fine.  I stopped at my friends house to inspect my bike, the front rim was dented about 1/2" in, almost broke the seal...talk about close.

It sounds close... , but how did the rim get bent so badly? The tire tread did it? just a little lost. Yo, thanx for sharing.

 

[pyrrhic]

Heading south on I-95, making Eastern Ave. exit in Baltimore doing about a buck but starting to slow down...I see a car ahead stopped  in the median between I-95 traffic and the exit lane...I say to myself, driver must have some sort of issue but as they are completely stopped and not in travel lane this is not going to be an issue for me...I continue on in the exit lane now traveling at about 75-80 mph...as I start to get closer the driver pulls out ever so slowly into my exit lane
I'm immediately applying hard brakes running through my options...which are few at this point...the bike slows quickly
thank god and I get down to about 20-30 mph just as I come up behind this nitwit...basically, end of close call. This happened almost 20 years ago, I remember it just like it was yesterday and it was the single most important event in my motorcycling experience that taught me the respect I needed to have to be a safe motorcyclist...
Ride safe...

Now that was close, you must have went into automatic mode, to get all the way down or under 30 from doing 140 and avoid that car. Nice one

 

[busabad]

Now that was close, you must have went into automatic mode, to get all the way down or under 30 from doing 140 and avoid that car. Nice one[/QUOTE]

Close, very close...but more importantly it was a wake up call for me...it that instant I realized how quickly the joy of motorcycling could turn into something completely horrible very quickly...and 20 years later it has served me well in the sense that every time I mount my bike that event is in the back of my mind and I ride accordingly...
Ride safe...

 

[pyrrhic]

Now that was close, you must have went into automatic mode, to get all the way down or under 30 from doing 140 and avoid that car. Nice one

Close, very close...but more importantly it was a wake up call for me...it that instant I realized how quickly the joy of motorcycling could turn into something completely horrible very quickly...and 20 years later it has served me well in the sense that every time I mount my bike that event is in the back of my mind and I ride accordingly...
Ride safe...[/QUOTE]
Some time it doesnt matter how save you are playing it something can at any time happen.

Even with that, your the<s> firdt </s> first one that I've heard about that has the lonest run of no incidents. Thats Outrageous, congrads.

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[HiYaBruceA]

1999, Hagerstown MD. It was dark, I had just ridden almost 200 miles on my Sportster 1220S, and I had too much road film on my visor. I was doing about 60 MPH on the 2 lane road when oncoming cars began to flash their headlights, further obscuring my vision. Thinking that they were alerting me to a speed trap, I ignored them because I wasn't going that fast. Next thing I know I'm right up on a fully grown whitetail deer straddling the yellow lines in the middle of the road, with his/her left flank in front of me. I swerved to the right and just missed its ass, which was at eye level. One big deer, no hemorrhoids, that's how close it was. All I could think as I zipped by was, please don't kick...............or worse yet, fart!

 

[pyrrhic]

That's great you can that you can laugh about it, I it was that tall could you have gone between its legs under its torso? ( hehehehe). No really, I dont see any big animals in the road where I live. That was very well told and glad it was only close.

 

[banditoo]

Toronto, ON. Don Valley Parkway -1995ish .. was cruising along on my CBR600, the traffic was quite heavy but moving well like it typically does on this 6 lane twisty secondary freeway type road. I had sufficient room between me and the truck ahead.

The traffic on this road has a habit of stopping for no reason and when there is a truck, (a Suburban in this case), in front of you it's difficult to see ahead - (facking big SUV drivers

but that's a different issue). Anyway, cruising along and see a bike on the other side of the road oncoming traffic, so look over and wave, it was a blonde with hair blowing out the back of her helmet and she was wearing tight shorts and a tank top - NICE !! I think I must have looked too long, I looked back forward to discover the Suburban had virtually stopped dead in front of me, (I was doing 80 or 90 km/h at the time).

The reflexes kick in and I hammer the brakes, at the very last microsecond before impact and before I launched myself into the cargo area of the Suburban, somehow I managed to push steer to the right, I just lightly touched the bumper of the truck with my foot, this was the right lane of traffic so I was now on the shoulder, full braking applied I skidded past the Suburban and the 2 next cars ahead of it.

Looking back I don't know how the hell my body reacted as fast as it did but like was stated above, it has opened my eyes and I think of this often particularly when riding behind a vehicle I can't see around.

 

[pyrrhic]

Dont tell me, you're married to that blonde. It was destiny.

Now that sound like a very long skid. Good thing you dont ride like me. The only time I do the speed limit is if I know there is an osiffer in the area.

 

[jwcfbd]

1999 on my old CBR 600.  I had just stopped to pay a toll when the gate lifted I took off slow and then decided to hit the gas.  Just as I shifted into second gear I hit a dip in the road.  This caused the bike to stand straigh up hitting my in the chest with the tank.  I got off the gas and the bike came crashing back down to the earth.  I kept it on two wheels the rest of the way home and at a much slower speed.

Same tollbooth this time on the way to work.  Again a hard launch.  I look ahead and see an open lane then look to the left to make sure noone is coming up from behind me.  Just as I turn my head back to the front I see a broken down car in my lane.  I swerve to the left just missing the rear bumper and just as I think I'm in the clear I see the drivers door starting to open.

  Thankfully he saw me and pulled the door back closed.   I made it by in one piece.

Same bike different road.  I was just out riding around one day.  I was riding behind a car and looked away just for a second, when I turned back the car had stopped.  I locked up the rear tire and felt the bike starting to come out from under me.  I got off the brakes and swerved to the right which put me off the road into the dirt and rocks of the shoulder.  All I could do was stay off the brakes and ride it out.  After passing three cars I finally came to a stop in somebodies driveway.

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[pyrrhic]

MAN that was a lot of heart-racing experiences in one week. Its good to hear they were only cose-calls.

 

[Big O]

Heart racing doesn't have to be high speed...
Just yesterday I was stopped at a light and a brand new R1 comes around behind me from my right, then swerves around to my left. Still leaning, he hits the brakes and the bike starts to fall over toward me, I let out the clutch and rolled into the crosswalk as he saves the bike from falling over. What a bobo! He almost dropped his bike onto mine! Then when the light turns green he hits the gas and swerves back and forth a little then does a little wheelie.

 

[pyrrhic]

thats true, you could be standing in a field and have a close call.

HIT-N-MISS
This one time I has riding down a six lane busy street, spliting traffic. Another rider comes up close behind a few hundred feet down the road I decide to get into left lane and let him get in front of me. So now I'm following him while spliting lanes but I gave him While we were coming up to a red light a car in the middle lane opened the car door and the rider infront of me got clipped and ended up leaning on another car. He was ok

If I didn't let him in front that could have been me. Is that a close-call or just dumb luck ?

 

[pyrrhic]

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