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06/15/09
The victims were actors who were filming some promo for their show.
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A 6'3, bald, weightlifting, cyclist friend of mine ( complete with Cockney accent ) was tagged about like that at Peachtree and 14th a few years back, by someone who did NOT have ROW. If you've seen the original Terminator movie, you know the look of non-comprehension on Sarah Connor's face the first time the Terminator gets up after being shot repeatedly by Reese ? That was the driver's look of trepidation as Kimmer picked himself up, looked at his ruined racer, and made a bee line for the douche driving the car.
the term Mutual Assured Destruction comes to mind...
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Then the girl gets out and she's like "Are you asking me for a CHALLENGE?!"
20XT6!
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When I read this sentence, I expected him to punch the car driver...
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I guess that's the price you pay for vanity...and paying a ridiculous price for shoes that are as easy to damage as Susan Boyle's reputation.
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I don't think I'll get PROs again (unless I become a construction worker): they're too heavy and don't look as good as the classics.
I keep getting nightmares about scuffing my new ones...no kidding.
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grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot hoon;
courage to hoon the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
Living 8 seconds at a time;
Enjoying one red light at a time;
Accepting Project Hell Cars as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as Murilee did, this sinful french car
as it is, not with a V8 as I would have it;
Trusting that Judge Lamm will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this race
and supremely happy with LeMons Justice
Forever wrenching in the next.
Amen.
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Also, if you note the traffic patterns, there is no one in the intersection, then the cars start flowing past, like they would if the light was, in fact, red for her.
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It is possible, but I would be surprised it that were the case. Just because there is no traffic doesn't mean that the woman in the car didn't have the right of way.
I guess that I am simply jaded and biased against the rider because I have seen far too many jackasses riding crotch rockets get hit on the LA freeway system because of their own stupidity, and several times have had to get off of my bike/get out of my car (depending on my choice of transportation for the day) and help.
He was obviously hooning it like a jackass considering how fast he was going when he was hit, and most streets that I have seen that have that center cross section have lights whatsoever.
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i think that great traffic light in the sky was red for the car driver. a short while after the accident, all the cars start moving again. i'm betting the motorcycle guy had the green light.
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I saw that in the comments section, but not in the caption to the video itself. Still, I won't rule out the possibility. As for the traffic pattern, I see where you are coming from, but just because there was no traffic at that particular moment didn't mean that the woman had a red light. It may be that the camera angle was simply too narrow to show that there was light or that there were other cars stopped.
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But at the time of the collision, the camera didn't show any other stopped cars. I don't know. My initial interpretation was that it was his fault, but I don't know any other information besides what I saw in the video, so I could very easily be wrong.
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Don't make me bring out Acura-girl...
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[www.explosm.net]
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It was a bit scary at the time, but I can laugh about it now. Don't know if he does though.
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Can't ride it, leave it parked. Simple.
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I've been on it one time, in a car, post-near-death bike accident, and I can say I'm glad to have not attempted it on two-wheels only because of the boneheads riding it. Even in a car, knowing the respect that road is not given had me looking, almost waiting, for someone to be on the wrong side of the road, mid-corner.
Pictures can't show just how tight that road is. I see why it's two-wheeled Mecca for the area, but I've been on better, less-traveled roads in Colorado. Cottonwood pass comes to mind, immediately.
The key is you have to look where you WANT to go. People look where they're going and sure enough, that's where they go.
My wife and I were two-up on a '91 ST1100 in a group of ST's. Mine was called FaSTer MaSTer, and we were known as being aggressive riders. Not stupid, mind you, just not afraid of the road.
We were behind a guy on a couple year newer machine in CO. Holmes was leaned over pretty good, heading into the classic decreasing-radius corner, and when I thought he was fine, then he stood it up, went up a dirt driveway, smacked into a fence, and flipped over, with the bike, onto a large rock.
Two-up, with inherently less clearance and more mass, we still made it through the same corner, at the same speed, though we did scrap more of the right-side peg off than homeboy. We also has a crankcase with less ventilation afterward.
This taught me first-hand, trust the tires. You will drag hard stuff before the tires give up, unless something else is at work. See my earlier comment on the genius behind putting non-absorbent cement powder on diesel fuel spills.
Fookin' Oregonians.
Oh, and some of the best bikes in the twisties are dual-sports converted to canyon carving. I had an XL600V with street tires and slightly tweaked suspension. What it lacked in top speed it MORE than made up for in the corners. Guys with double the HP were always amazed I was with them at the stops on a ride. Yeah...I catch up in the corners...where it's really fun!
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If you're lucky, you're only 100 feet down a cliff. This just means you had less time to think about it before dying. Some of the drop-offs in that part of the world must have vehicles at the bottom nobody knows about.
Independence Pass...the only place in the state you're pretty much guaranteed to find snow, roadside, in August.
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THE TREE OF SHAME