The triumph will need some repair. I'm fine.
Long story short, U-turn cager almost took me out. I decided to talk to him and be a good guy and help him to look for bikers instead of being the asshole I usually am and just bust off a mirror or kick the car. He ran, running every stop and red light, I followed, stopped at stop signs and waited at all red lights. Morning traffic and splitting lanes makes this an easy game to play, no way was he going to evade me. After a good 10 minutes of zipping all over, He finally stopped and I drove up alongside his passenger door to ask him WTF? I wasn't mad, just kinda amused that he was trying to evade me which was impossible. I was stopped, he turned the steering wheel towards me and moved forward 5 feet. as my leg was being smooshed between the car and my bike, I turned my bars and let out the clutch too fast and stalled the bike which then went down on it's right side.
He backed up 150 yards down the street and ran. Witnesses came forward with lic plate and phone numbers. They ID'd the guy after he was caught 2 minutes later a couple blocks away and so did I. He went to jail for 245PC which is assault with a deadly weapon. I expect he will be charged with felony hit and run, vehicular assault and a ton of other charges at arraignment.
The car is registered to another person who wasn't driving and I doubt there will be any insurance. I have PL and PD, no comprehensive. I thought I had uninsured motorist but they said I don't.
My left leg is fine but my right leg and back got tweaked while trying to hold the bike up as it went down.
One of the fairing pins busted through the crankcase cover and spilled all the oil out so I had to be towed home. I'll do a thorough examination of the bike when I get home after going to urgent care to get some good pain killers.
In retrospect, the biggest full moon in 10 years and drinko de Mayo is tomorrow. Maybe I should have either blown it off or been an asshole and busted his mirror. Either way I can see this playing out as an illegal alien that bought a car from someone that just registered it and then never re-registered it, doesn't have a driver's license or green card, was drunk and indigent. My only hope is that the registered owner didn't turn in the waiver of responsibility and she has some $$. LA sucks due to all the illegals here. They play lots of games to get cars with registration stickers on the license plate and never re-register or get insurance, a license or anything and then run after killing someone. The Police don't bother you if your license plate sticker is current so unless they hit someone and get caught, they get away with it.
Long story short, U-turn cager almost took me out. I decided to talk to him and be a good guy and help him to look for bikers instead of being the asshole I usually am and just bust off a mirror or kick the car. He ran, running every stop and red light, I followed, stopped at stop signs and waited at all red lights. Morning traffic and splitting lanes makes this an easy game to play, no way was he going to evade me. After a good 10 minutes of zipping all over, He finally stopped and I drove up alongside his passenger door to ask him WTF? I wasn't mad, just kinda amused that he was trying to evade me which was impossible. I was stopped, he turned the steering wheel towards me and moved forward 5 feet. as my leg was being smooshed between the car and my bike, I turned my bars and let out the clutch too fast and stalled the bike which then went down on it's right side.
He backed up 150 yards down the street and ran. Witnesses came forward with lic plate and phone numbers. They ID'd the guy after he was caught 2 minutes later a couple blocks away and so did I. He went to jail for 245PC which is assault with a deadly weapon. I expect he will be charged with felony hit and run, vehicular assault and a ton of other charges at arraignment.
The car is registered to another person who wasn't driving and I doubt there will be any insurance. I have PL and PD, no comprehensive. I thought I had uninsured motorist but they said I don't.
My left leg is fine but my right leg and back got tweaked while trying to hold the bike up as it went down.
One of the fairing pins busted through the crankcase cover and spilled all the oil out so I had to be towed home. I'll do a thorough examination of the bike when I get home after going to urgent care to get some good pain killers.
In retrospect, the biggest full moon in 10 years and drinko de Mayo is tomorrow. Maybe I should have either blown it off or been an asshole and busted his mirror. Either way I can see this playing out as an illegal alien that bought a car from someone that just registered it and then never re-registered it, doesn't have a driver's license or green card, was drunk and indigent. My only hope is that the registered owner didn't turn in the waiver of responsibility and she has some $$. LA sucks due to all the illegals here. They play lots of games to get cars with registration stickers on the license plate and never re-register or get insurance, a license or anything and then run after killing someone. The Police don't bother you if your license plate sticker is current so unless they hit someone and get caught, they get away with it.
I would almost bet he gets off with little more than a stiff fine, a few nights in jail and two years of probation. Overcrowding, what can you do?