cartmen34

Mine was almost a motorcycle accident. I was on the motorcycle. So some buds and myself are rolling on a 4 lane freeway with moderate amounts of traffic. We are nearing our off-ramp, which is a two lane off-ramp. We start to merge from the far left lane (the fast lane) to one of the off-ramp lanes when suddenly the left lane of the off-ramp comes to a screeching halt. The problem arose because while the cars in front of me were slamming on their brakes, I was looking behind me to move into the right lane of the off-ramp. I begin my merge into the right lane, turn my head around just in time to see that I'm bearing down on the biggest set of minivan brake lights I've ever seen. I pitch the bike over hard to complete the merge and miss the side of the minivan by milimeters...no joke, milimeters.
The sad thing is it would have been totally my fault, as I was not paying attention. It wouldn't have mattered much though, as my speed + minivan rear doors would have probably taken me out permanently.

And then there's the time where I was riding through the hills and actually smacked a deer with my arm as it was trying to cross the road. Knocked the deer on its ass, and my elbow and upper arm was black and blue for about 2 weeks, even though I WAS wearing armoured leathers.... but that's a WHOLE other story... heheh.

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