Fellow Motorheads,
When someone tells you `Sorry, I didn't see you', that's probably the
sad truth, and the reason we all carry liability insurance.
My first experience was in line at an airport exit gate, waiting to pay
the cashier; I had a dark blue '69 Spitsmoke at the time. I was behind a
big Buick that had been hit hard enough in the rear to put a large wrinkle
in the trunk lid. The line was not moving at this booth, but was at others.
I see one back-up light come on in the mangled rear of the Buick, and be-
fore I could put down my wallet and try to get into reverse, Crunch, there
went my right headlight and fender. A lady jumped out, aghast, and immed-
eately apologized, the damage to her car was only a day old, and she said
she looked in her rear-view but didn't see my LBC down behind the wrinkle
in her trunk lid. Her insurance took care of it, and the entire flip front
end of my car got a fresh coat of paint. Not traumatic, in my case.
Any experienced motorcyclist will tell you that you need to drive your bike
on the assumption that NO one sees you, more than defensively, downright
Paranoid about little blue-haired ladies pulling out right in front of you.
And they are not lying, they really don't see you...drivers license vision
tests are not known for keeping the nearly blind off the road in Ohio, the
situation may be better elsewhere.
Best regards,
Tom Tweed
SW Ohio.....BC&CD in Dayton Saturday the 3rd, Eastwood Park !
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