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Old 06-15-2006, 10:05 PM
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Was almost home today and almost ended up on the rearend of a SUV. The road I was on is 55 mph speed limit and I was doing about 50. My eyes where watching out for cagers at a stopsign that intersects this main road. I look up and see this red SUV I was behind had stopped, so I slammed my breaks fishtailing. I did manage to recover from the fishtail and pulled hard right onto the shoulder to miss the stopped SUV. The shoulder on this road is only 2 feet wide with a 10 foot sloop to the right if it, YIKES. Turnsout some DumbA$$ of a cager had come to a stop to let anothe cager left turn into a gas station. I mean theres being nice and then theres being a complete idiot. I was pretty shaken up and tried to start in 5th gear LOL. I always leave about 3 car lenght when I follow a cager, If I hadn't I would be...Hate to think about it. I'll have Pic of my spoty soon and once I get my V&H shortshot installed this weekend I'll post a vid to.
 
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Old 06-15-2006, 11:45 PM
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It sucks learning lessons the hard way but at least you were not hurt and able to tell us about it....Be safe out there!
 
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Old 06-16-2006, 02:33 PM
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Glad you made it man!!

I'm gonna rib you real quick because when i ride with my MSF coach he always does this same crap to me!

This is all in fun, I'm not critizing your avoidance, just poking you...


You slammed on your brakes!!!?????

I think you should have "squeezed" your brakes, LOL!!

If you took MSF you'll no what I mean!


Course when he was telling me about a crash he says "So I grabbed the brakes....."

I gave him the same "Don't you mean squeezed?"

him "Hell NO! I grabbed tehm SOB's for all they was worth!!"




Glad your still here buddy!

 
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Old 06-17-2006, 02:39 AM
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OK, I slammed my foot brakes and sloftly squeezed on my front brakes, LOL. I coulda killed that damm idiot cager doing a dead stop like that. BTW got my V&H shortshots installed, doing SE ac kit and rejetting cark tomorrow.
 
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Old 06-17-2006, 02:46 AM
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Glad you made it man!!

I'm gonna rib you real quick because when i ride with my MSF coach he always does this same crap to me!

This is all in fun, I'm not critizing your avoidance, just poking you...


You slammed on your brakes!!!?????

I think you should have "squeezed" your brakes, LOL!!

If you took MSF you'll no what I mean!


Course when he was telling me about a crash he says "So I grabbed the brakes....."

I gave him the same "Don't you mean squeezed?"

him "Hell NO! I grabbed tehm SOB's for all they was worth!!"




Glad your still here buddy!


He'd "no what you mean"?

don't you mean "know what you mean"? . . . hehehe


Just havin' fun.
 
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