A few weeks ago, I did something stupid on the bike that still weighs on my mind....
I was sitting at a light waiting to make a left turn, with a tractor-trailer in front of me making a right. In the opposite direction, there was an SUV waiting to make a left turn - (same direction as the t-t for the imaginationally impaired..
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This was in a small town, so the turn for the t-t was rather tight. The SUV let the t-t go first, and as I didn't want to get stuck sitting through another light, as soon as the t-t cleared the intersection and the SUV started his turn, I pulled out and made my left in the opposite direction of them.
Unseen and unbeknownst to me, there was a sportbike behind the SUV who also didn't want to get stuck for the next light and he was coming straight across the intersection in typical sportbike fashion....
I goosed it while he nailed the brakes and we narrowly avoided a collision. He probably called me a few choice names and rightfully so.
My bad. A real "DOH" moment.
