SKECHE
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It’s been over a month now and I still can see it like it was yesterday…
On April 7th, I went out for a ride thru town and I came up on another Busa rider. I’ve never seen nor met this guy before, but as I was approaching a red light I noticed that he turned on to a new rode that they just built to join two major highways. It has a nice long straight away, but towards the other end there’s a sharp curve (4 lanes - 2 westbound/2 eastbound) 30 mph zone. The other rider didn’t see me approach him, he didn’t even know that I was behind him; so as we turned on to the new rode he passed up a car that was in the outside lane which gave him the inside lane, I also passed the car in the inside lane but switched over to the outside lane as soon as I passed the car. Well by then I was at the speed of 70 mph when I came off the throttle and as he stayed in the throttle hitting a speed of 85-90 mph, he couldn’t make the sharp right hand turn and being he was in the inside lane the momentum pushed him across the other two lanes of traffic; (which no other cars were coming at the time), off the rode thru a wooded area hitting and bouncing off a few trees, he then came to a sliding stop on his back and the bike went thru a fence. I had made my u-turn and stopped the next car and had them call 911. I kept looking at the guy hoping that he would get up, but he was not moving. He had diedon the seen. He was wearing a helmet which few off during the accident. I hung around for a bit to give my statement to the cops and just to collect my thoughts. Some other people showed up after and was telling me that this was a brand new bike and that he just had some work done to it (lowered,extended,pipe). He was married and had two girls, 12 & 16. I went to the funeral just to pay my respects, even thou I didn’t know him, I thought that was the least thing I could do. I tried to talk to the family but it was too hard for me to stay around.
remember, if you're not familliar with the rodes, TAKE IT SLOW.
lease:
Here are a couple of pictures of the bike.
On April 7th, I went out for a ride thru town and I came up on another Busa rider. I’ve never seen nor met this guy before, but as I was approaching a red light I noticed that he turned on to a new rode that they just built to join two major highways. It has a nice long straight away, but towards the other end there’s a sharp curve (4 lanes - 2 westbound/2 eastbound) 30 mph zone. The other rider didn’t see me approach him, he didn’t even know that I was behind him; so as we turned on to the new rode he passed up a car that was in the outside lane which gave him the inside lane, I also passed the car in the inside lane but switched over to the outside lane as soon as I passed the car. Well by then I was at the speed of 70 mph when I came off the throttle and as he stayed in the throttle hitting a speed of 85-90 mph, he couldn’t make the sharp right hand turn and being he was in the inside lane the momentum pushed him across the other two lanes of traffic; (which no other cars were coming at the time), off the rode thru a wooded area hitting and bouncing off a few trees, he then came to a sliding stop on his back and the bike went thru a fence. I had made my u-turn and stopped the next car and had them call 911. I kept looking at the guy hoping that he would get up, but he was not moving. He had diedon the seen. He was wearing a helmet which few off during the accident. I hung around for a bit to give my statement to the cops and just to collect my thoughts. Some other people showed up after and was telling me that this was a brand new bike and that he just had some work done to it (lowered,extended,pipe). He was married and had two girls, 12 & 16. I went to the funeral just to pay my respects, even thou I didn’t know him, I thought that was the least thing I could do. I tried to talk to the family but it was too hard for me to stay around.
remember, if you're not familliar with the rodes, TAKE IT SLOW.
lease:Here are a couple of pictures of the bike.
Speed kills. Have to have self control with that throttle hand... Condolences to his family...
RIP rider.
