I never truly believed this this until my drive home form work today.
Took the truck this morning yeah I'm a wuss sue me. But temps violated my new 1 degree rule. If the air temp is not at least 1 degree fahrenheit above my age i dont ride.
Anyhow coming home 4 lane devided hiway. Driving Ford ranger with a cap. doing about 70 slow lane modarate traffic.Coming up on slower traffic decide to move to left lane, do a quick mirror check hit turn signal.Thats when i heard it the unmistakeable sound of a big V-twin with straight pipes.Now i hear him but still dont see him check rear view nothing just about have to put my head out to the window to see him, there he is right in the blindest part on my blind spot. Some moron on a HD (i only use the term moron because of where he was this isnt an HD bash). So i canceled my turn signal and wait for hin to go by. Guess what he dosnt, stays right there. I wait a couple seconds see if hes gonna pass or get behind me.Nope stays right there. Finally I backed off the gas a little and let him
ease by. Then I got in behind him thats when he fianlly opened it up and took off.
Now I dont know if this guy was coming up to pass and got spooked when my blinker came on. Or if he had been there a while.I do know that I did not see him approach.
I guess the whole point of this story is if he didnt have the loud pipes. I dont know if i would have ever seen him.
Chances are i would have put him into the median or at the very least scared the living poop out of him. And of course it would have been my fault.
