"Shag" > wrote in message
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> Whoooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!! What a rush!!!!! Decided to ride the bike
> in to work again today and it was almost my last trip. I stopped on
> Six Forks Road heading north to wait for oncoming southbound traffic
> to clear so I could make a left turn. That portion of Six Forks road
> has one lane heading north, one heading south. No traffic light at
> that intersection. So when someone stops at the intersection where I
> stopped, traffic behind them has to wait for them or drive around them
> on the right by driving off of the side of the road. It's pretty rough
> there so it's only safe to drive around at probably 10 mph or so. So
> I'm sitting there in the leftmost portion of my lane in case someone
> wants to drive around when I heard it. That sound. The sound nobody
> wants to hear. The sound of tires on pavement starting to squeal as if
> though they are on the verge of locking up. I look up in my side
> mirror and sure enough... a white pickup truck is coming up on my ass
> FAST. I could tell he was having trouble controlling his truck. I
> didn't have time to think or do ANYTHING. Apparently he figured out
> that there was no way he was going to be able to stop in time so he let
> off of his brakes and at the last second he ran off the road on the
> right and passed me at about 50 mph. Came within about a foot of me,
> but it felt like a couple of inches. I could feel the blast of air
> from his truck as he passed me. Hair stood up on the back of my neck.
> Man, that will make you aware of your mortality in a hurry. Another
> car stopped behind me a few seconds later, southbound traffic cleared,
> and I was on my way. There was a woman sitting at the intersection in
> her van who had been waiting to turn southbound onto Six Forks who saw
> the whole thing. As I rode past her, she had a look on her face that
> said "Dude, you *almost* just got killed." Yeah, no kiddin'. Maybe I
> should get one of those strobing brake light thingies too. Me - 1.
> Death - 0. Y'all almost lost me today. :-)
>

glad you came out okay....never forget you have a pretty powerful machine
that can accellerate quickly.....good chance he never would have gotten past
me on the right before i was out of the way....have had to miss a turn
before due to similar situations....repeat after me "twist and dump"