My wife and I both had the day off today so we had the neighbor girl babysit and took the bikes out. It was so beautiful out today: 60's and 70's...just gorgeous. We decided to run in to Wautoma this morning, grab some breakfast and head out to Mautston and ride along the Wisconsin river. We took some back roads to Wautoma and there's a particular section of Czech Rd that get really twistie, like hair pin turns. We come up to one of those turns and I'm in the lead, my wife had backed off some and I'm lucky that I was sensible in this turn...lucky my wife was with me. My wife is a very conservative rider and I tend to get a bit more agressive when I'm by myself or with a couple of my friends. So, I took this turn pretty slow and was looking through the turn and BAM! there's a car in my lane coming from the opposite direction. I stood the boo up a bit and drifted to the shoulder, but I knew my wife was toast. She hasn't been riding for very long and I knew that if the lady was already in my lane, she was going to smack Lori. So I'm trying to look over my shoulder and can't see sh!t and I stand up in the saddle and turn, to see that this woman was completely senseless and was ALL the way over into the other lane and turning, almost on the opposite shoulder...Lori just ran her bike straight...she didn't even get to turn into the curve. I wish we would have had our camera with us. You can see her tire marks going straight into the turn and then straight into the shoulder. She tipped it in the dirt and gravel, clutch side. The frame slider sunk into the dirt and the fairing slid a bit in the gravel and dirt. She's got road rash on her hip and is bruised to hell. I'm glad she was wearing her armored jacket. The left shoulder of her jacket is torn up a bit, but her shoulder is good. The worst thing? That fuc*** lady didn't even stop. She just kept going. I flipped around and Lori was walking it off. I stood her SV up and...man, her poor little bike is toast. We'll have to replace that clutch side fairing. It's cracked a bit and scratched all to hell. Poor Lori is so upset. We washed and polished the bikes yesterday...poor girl. She's okay, though. A bit of hurt pride mixed with anger that some a-hole caused an accident that screwed up her bike. I can't beleive the woman didn't even stop. She's either a complete a** or just absolutely clueless...maybe both.
Jason
Jason
