Motorcycle & Scooter

Robb

(39,665 posts) Mon Apr 29, 2013, 04:16 PM Apr 2013

Reminder: Shoulder it on sudden stops.

To wit:

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Reminder: Shoulder it on sudden stops. (Original Post) Robb Apr 2013 OP

Interest to read the comments. NYC_SKP Apr 2013 #1

Thanks Robb...I think.... catnhatnh Apr 2013 #2

Somebody yelled "This is a funeral procession"? Manifestor_of_Light Apr 2013 #3

this ties in nicely with your lane splitting post.. frylock May 2013 #4

I can't figure out why the first car (the one that got rear ended) was stopped. Gidney N Cloyd May 2013 #5

NYC_SKP

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1. Interest to read the comments.

Reply to Robb (Original post)

Mon Apr 29, 2013, 04:43 PM

Apr 2013

Without doubt, the truck was at fault.

However, had the bikes ahead not been pulled over in that 17 inch strip of pavement right with a steep grade dropping off the shoulder, the Nissan wouldn't have stopped and the truck wouldn't have had a dead object in the middle of the street to ram into.

Were I in the Nissan, I'd likely have slowed but not stopped.

So there are some contributors to what happened here: the bikes ahead, the Nissan, but more than anything the truck driver who, as suggested in the comments, might well have been texting or reading emails.

Damn.