Last Monday I went on a trip with a buddy of mine who just purchased a Suzuki GS 500 after completing a motorcycle safety course not more than a week ago. We headed down to Cranbrook B.C. from Calgary Alberta; the trip was about 400 KM. All the way there he tailgated me. I kept pulling over to tell him not to follow so closely and that if I have to make a right hand turn he won’t be able to react fast enough to my signal and brake light. Anyways, we made it to Cranbrook fine. We had some dinner and then decided to head on out to explore some of the good back roads nearby. At this time the sun was starting to go down and it was getting dark. We turned onto this road that had a litter barrel turnout a few KM ahead and I figured that would be a perfect place for turning around and heading back to town. As we were cruising down this road I realized I was about to miss the turnoff; I grabbed both brakes pretty hard and signaled. I slowed down to about 5-10 KM/h and all of a sudden I hear “HADRIANNNNNNN!!!” I saw him in my right mirror coming at me. By this point I had already half made the turn, but I quickly reacted and steered as hard to the left as possible to prevent him from hitting the side of my bike directly. In the end he locked up both his wheels and hit my leg. He scuffed my brand new Dainese Nitro suit and bent my foot peg in. He wiped out but hardly did any damage to himself or his bike—a little scuff on his exhaust pipe and some road rash on his knee.
I am grateful that the accident wasn’t a lot worse, because it could have been a disaster had he hit me dead on. I’m just frustrated that he 1) followed me too closely and wasn’t able to stop, and 2) wasn’t able to counter steer around me. If he had enough time to scream out my name he had enough time to react to what was in front of him.
Anyways, the triangular bracket of the right rearset was bent inward. I’ve ordered another, but it’s going to be three weeks coming in!!!!! They are on back order from Japan…
It’s too bad I can’t afford the Sato rearsets right now.
I am grateful that the accident wasn’t a lot worse, because it could have been a disaster had he hit me dead on. I’m just frustrated that he 1) followed me too closely and wasn’t able to stop, and 2) wasn’t able to counter steer around me. If he had enough time to scream out my name he had enough time to react to what was in front of him.
Anyways, the triangular bracket of the right rearset was bent inward. I’ve ordered another, but it’s going to be three weeks coming in!!!!! They are on back order from Japan…
It’s too bad I can’t afford the Sato rearsets right now.
