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Rush hour, going 70 in the fast lane, bike dies, I don't...
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<blockquote data-quote="James Burleigh" data-source="post: 1165217" data-attributes="member: 4162"><p>Just got home, alive. Thank you, Lord.... <span style="font-size: 14px"> <img src="https://www.fjrforum.com/forum//public/style_emoticons/default/innocent.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></span></p><p></p><p>Only minutes ago I was flying down the fast lane, <span style="font-size: 14px">a million tons of distracted steel coming up behind me at 70+ MPH, when suddenly someone must've capped a bullet in my '05's head: I've got no throttle, no electrical--nothin'. The bike is completely dead; all I've got is coasting momentum and nowhere to go because on my right is four lanes of thick, fast-moving traffic, and on my left </span><span style="font-size: 14px">a white stripe, 12 inches of pavement, and a concrete wall.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 14px">[i have to get some something to eat before I do anything else, like finish this story (no, I don't need to change my undies; not this time; but figuratively, oh yeah--it's your worst f**kin' nightmare: suddenly becoming a paperweight in the middle of rush-hour freeway traffic <img src="https://www.fjrforum.com/forum//public/style_emoticons/default/ohno-smiley02.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />). </span><span style="font-size: 14px">Back in a few.... (I have a theory about what happened, and if true, a cautionary tale for us all. If I'd gotten run over, the bike mangled, no one, not even <a href="https://www.fjrforum.com/forum//index.php/user/3536-checkswrecks/" target="_blank">Checkswrecks</a>, would have figured out what happened and why.)]</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James Burleigh, post: 1165217, member: 4162"] Just got home, alive. Thank you, Lord.... [SIZE=14px] [IMG]https://www.fjrforum.com/forum//public/style_emoticons/default/innocent.gif[/IMG][/SIZE] Only minutes ago I was flying down the fast lane, [SIZE=14px]a million tons of distracted steel coming up behind me at 70+ MPH, when suddenly someone must've capped a bullet in my '05's head: I've got no throttle, no electrical--nothin'. The bike is completely dead; all I've got is coasting momentum and nowhere to go because on my right is four lanes of thick, fast-moving traffic, and on my left [/SIZE][SIZE=14px]a white stripe, 12 inches of pavement, and a concrete wall.[/SIZE] [SIZE=14px][i have to get some something to eat before I do anything else, like finish this story (no, I don't need to change my undies; not this time; but figuratively, oh yeah--it's your worst f**kin' nightmare: suddenly becoming a paperweight in the middle of rush-hour freeway traffic [IMG]https://www.fjrforum.com/forum//public/style_emoticons/default/ohno-smiley02.gif[/IMG]). [/SIZE][SIZE=14px]Back in a few.... (I have a theory about what happened, and if true, a cautionary tale for us all. If I'd gotten run over, the bike mangled, no one, not even [URL="https://www.fjrforum.com/forum//index.php/user/3536-checkswrecks/"]Checkswrecks[/URL], would have figured out what happened and why.)][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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