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Somber reminders….
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October 3, 2009 at 6:20 am #3483MunchParticipant
We all are aware of the dangers of riding and we all tend to read about the stories or hear about them on the news.
Friday of last week I was riding home from work on the 440 Beltline here in Raleigh NC. Nothing different about the ride. Typical 6pm traffic backed up at the usual bottle necks. Cruising along enjoying the bright Carolina blue skies and a very beautiful 75 degree weather. Coming around a curve I noticed traffic has stopped, since I always keep more then enough buffer for stopping…no big deal. As usual the traffic was painfully crawling and I was getting my over worked practice at the slow crawl. Well that and messing with the drivers behind me while working imaginary cone patterns in my lane. I figured as per usual that once I got to where traffic starts splitting up and going again I would see the typical wide open road with no clue what stopped traffic. I was very wrong. As I get up to the accident scene I notice the ambulance is still there, a few boys in blue and the fire department. By the time I get there the fire boys are leaving and it’s down to 1 LEO and 1 ambulance. Not good…. someone got injured , and it’s in my lane…wonderful .
Finally get up to the scene to see what the hub bub is all about, and that’s when I see the one thing I didn’t need to while I was on my bike…. rider down. Immediately I got cold shivers run up my back and down my arms. Fortunately with the casualness of the ambulance and the LEO…not to mention the apparent significant other wasn’t hysterical I think all the rider may have suffered was some road rash.
As I slowly crawled passed the bike I noticed it was a HD Road King, also noticed that the back tire was in very poor condition, and flat. I truly hope the traffic had slowed to where it was a minor speed lay down and all he got was road rash. After a small prayer and a salute I moved on. However it took me a good little while to shake the chills.
Please folks, never under estimate what seems to be a very mundane habit of checking your bike for proper maintenance. And always make sure your tires are in good to excellent condition…they are infact the only things keeping you on the road! -
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