doohicky paranoia: data

[Mark Wilson]

----- Original Message ----- From: "piggywack" To: DSN_klr650@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 12:13 AM Subject: [DSN_klr650] support after a crash > Hi. I've recently had an accident where a car made a left hand turn > in front of me and I crashed my dual sport into the side of the car > and got hurdled over the hood. Has anybody else had this same > experience and how did it affect your attitudes about riding after? > Thanks for any support or information anybody can offer. > Yep, same thing has happened to me, twice... Except I hit the drivers doors both times. Now, I ride like I'm invisible.. They cant see me.. At least thats what they say. One good thing about the KLR is that your up high, and can see over traffic.. Never follow too close, and try to be seen, as best you can..

[Tengai Mark Van Horn]

At 12:29 AM -0400 9/28/03, Mark Wilson wrote:

>Never follow too close, and try to be seen, as best you can..

And assume all pedestrians, bicyclists and drivers are deaf, blind retards on crack. Mark

[Herm Halbach]

two second, four second, twelve second rule ... always. Herm A15 - "Paint" At 12:29 AM 9/28/03 -0400, you wrote:

>----- Original Message ----- >From: "piggywack" >To: DSN_klr650@yahoogroups.com> >Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 12:13 AM >Subject: [DSN_klr650] support after a crash > > > > Hi. I've recently had an accident where a car made a left hand turn > > in front of me and I crashed my dual sport into the side of the car > > and got hurdled over the hood. Has anybody else had this same > > experience and how did it affect your attitudes about riding after? > > Thanks for any support or information anybody can offer. > > > >Yep, same thing has happened to me, twice... Except I hit the drivers doors >both times. >Now, I ride like I'm invisible.. They cant see me.. At least thats what they >say. One good thing about the KLR is that your up high, and can see over >traffic.. >Never follow too close, and try to be seen, as best you can.. > > > >List sponsored by Dual Sport News at www.dualsportnews.com. List FAQ >courtesy of Chris Krok at: www.bigcee.com/klr650faq.html >Unsubscribe by sending a blank message to: >DSN_klr650-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com . > > > >Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

Herm [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[KJ]

on 9/28/03 8:51 AM, Tengai Mark Van Horn at Tengai650@... wrote:

> At 12:29 AM -0400 9/28/03, Mark Wilson wrote: >> Never follow too close, and try to be seen, as best you can.. > > And assume all pedestrians, bicyclists and drivers are deaf, blind > retards on crack. > Mark >

No need to assume. they really are! Karl

[Frank Sosa]

One time I was driving down Hollywood Blvd. I was lane splitting, which is legal. It pissed this guy off (people get jealous of bikes when their cars become traffic) and he came from behind me and tried to literally push me off the road with his car. It was a honda civic. I could not believe the audacity! I literally felt like it was an attempt at murder! No doubt in my mind that he saw me. So, I let him pass me. I noticed his window was rolled down. At the next stop light I approached him from behind, lifted my face shield on my flip face, sucked up the biggest loogie I could muster and stopped right next to him. He tought I was going to say something when he turned his head toward me. Splat, right between the eyes. In a heartbeat I was gone through the traffic. This exact same scenario happend to me once before, also in Hollywood. This time the traffic was too a complete stop, so I decided to get off the bike and approach the guy. This guy had his windows rolled up and when I got to his car the bitch pulled out a big knife and threatened to call the cops. I just shook my head and walked away.

> >Agreed. > >Once about 10 years ago, I actually kicked a car who was merging >into my lane. In town at about 40mph. Hope I put a big dent in >it.... > >Trust nobody. > >

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[leideli]

> Total Doohickey complaint entries = 11

OK...not many complaints.

> When I started this exercise I was hoping to find 20 - 30 entries.

"Hoping" would imply that you are biased, rather than neutrally researching.

> I haven't made any conclusion on this rate. Clearly, we all know > that only a small proportion of those who have problems actually > complain.

Conversly, those who do complain, often complain and respond MANY TIMES to further discussions...as we see on this board.

> My thoughts are to 1. commend those who have made entries > here, 2. encourage others to do so even if you haven't had a > problem. My complaint is of the "this is common knowledge and pre- > emptive" type.

WHAAAT !!!!!! COMPLAIN EVEN IF YOU HAVEN"T HAD A PROBLEM !?!?!?!? That is exactly the extreme paranoia that should be avoided !

> Can we get this data base up to 125 entries??? It might have more > impact than 11 > Not implying we should doctor up the data base with

falsehoods, ...... That is exactly what you are asking for.