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  1. #11 Re: Pulse adrenaline 125 WRITE OFF 
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    Quote Originally Posted by adrenalinesteve View Post
    i was stopped at a cross junction and he hit me at 30mph ish in a renault megan i just stood up and was like WTF U DUMB C**T he said i didnt see u and has taken full responibility :D
    That's what they always say. A guy hit me in my red pickup truck and he said he didn't see me.
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    Steve,

    Thanks for reporting this and very glad you retained your life as well as your sense of humor and irony. But I'm still wondering: How in hell did you survive being hit by a car, even a miserable french one, running at 50kph? How is it that this didn't break every bone in your body, or at least half of them? Did you somehow jump up and roll over the top of the car while the bike took the brunt of the collision?

    Surely an amazing story, and very glad you are here to tell it.

    keep us posted about the new bike.

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    Quote Originally Posted by euphonius View Post
    Steve,

    Thanks for reporting this and very glad you retained your life as well as your sense of humor and irony. But I'm still wondering: How in hell did you survive being hit by a car, even a miserable french one, running at 50kph? How is it that this didn't break every bone in your body, or at least half of them? Did you somehow jump up and roll over the top of the car while the bike took the brunt of the collision?

    Surely an amazing story, and very glad you are here to tell it.

    keep us posted about the new bike.

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    I second that, we could also learn from the incident.

    I'm gonna put my mirrors back, first i need to buy some decent mirrors.. This and other stories here convinced me to do that, the mirror is there, if for somereason i forget to shoulder check, might still catch something happening behind me in the mirrors.
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    If you look at OP's avatar pic, he wears (as do I) mainly black gear on a dark bike. Remember the Instruction Video (I think it was posted by Naim?) that showed how hard it is for us to be seen? This is yet another lesson for us. I am trying to train myself to wear dorky fluoro waistcoats and to ride with lights on during day. Doesn't matter if they saw you or not or whose fault it was if you are dead.

    Glad you are OK mate, and that the driver was responsible enough to admit fault. Many don't.

    I agree about the mirrors, I have normal mirrors plus bar-end mirrors and one of those magnifying inserts on the RH main mirror as well. Today as I rode to the shops a white car overtook me fast that I had NO idea was there until the very last seconds - yet I look in my mirrors a lot. On that road he must have been there for a while too. As usual, I just saw my shoulders in the main mirrors and the bar-end mirror's image was too small, this fast-moving vehicle changed from a small dot to right up on me in just seconds and he must have been pissed off I was riding close to the road crown. The view in the small mirrors is too deceptive, makes things look far away when they are not. I keep saying I am going to do it but after reading this post I will look hard again at somehow moving the main mirrors outside the line of my shoulders!

    Looking behind you over shoulder when at 100 kph on a high centre-of-gravity bike like an R/T style actually moves you across the road a few feet and can be dangerous in itself.

    Another comment off topic but related, Wayne Gardner, a well known Aussie racing motorcyclist recently fronted a local 'road safety' ad about cars riding us off the road. Most of the motorcycle riders in this Government sponsored ad were just wearing T-shirts, jeans and runners!
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    Insurance have been in contact :D, im getting 1300 for my bike and my bike back.
    im gunna sell my bike as a write off and see how much i have left over and probably buy and new one :D

    I saw the person who knocked me off the other day and he was WALKING :D i hope he has written his car offf :L

    and a reply to getting hit my wheel kinda went underneath his bonnet/hood of his car so it kinda pushed my bike foward but i stay ON it lol, but then the bike release and dropped to the side i fell on the floor :L

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    I am quite sure car drivers would suddenly begin to see a whola lotta better motorcyclists if ramming a motorcycle would trigger 500kg TNT bomb.
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    Quote Originally Posted by adrenalinesteve View Post
    people in cars these days ..... JHEEEZZE MANN
    Glad to hear you're okay. I think people should have to learn to ride bike before being allowed to drive a car. Not only would it be safer for riders, but also make people better drivers as well.

    Only problem with it is it makes too much sense for modern politics!

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    Quote Originally Posted by CrazyCarl View Post
    Only problem with it is it makes too much sense for modern politics!

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    you can buy my pulse :-)
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    im soooo tempted to get a yamaha Xt or WR 125 there soo smooth to ride
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