Damn! Got knocked off the bike again on Saturday. Silly driver switched lanes on me… Of course, he couldn’t check his mirror or indicate because he was too busy chatting on his mobile phone. Luckily I was not hurt, just a bruise here and there, and the bike went down reasonably gently with the R&G crash mushrooms doing an outstanding job (I still need to replace some panels though as the scratches won’t polish out). A nice guy who was behind the driver gave me his name and number as a witness and the guy who hit me said that he’d pay up so hopefully it should all get sorted pretty quickly.
I rode away from the accident and the bike is fine mechanically. I actually finished my journey to Rex Judd to get my alarm fixed, so at least that’s working again!
September 26th, 2005 at 6:02 pm
Sounds like you were pretty calm David, I’d have been a lot more angry and probably have had to restrain myself! Are you pushing for the Police to prosecute him as well? It makes my bloody boil when I see these idiots on their phones, I’ve been tempted on more than one occasion to rip it out of their hands and throw it away, they have no regard for anyone elses lives.