Read this "Street Savvy" article in the lastest(May2010) edition of "Motorcyclist" magazine here...
http://www.motorcyclistonline.com/howto/..._way/index.html...and then reply as to YOUR guess of what lesson you THINK young Mr.Harvey M. Broadway here should have learned, because it's never truly expressed in this article, AND because I have a feeling he didn't learn the REAL lesson he SHOULD have.
I feel this way because, if you click onto the lower picture of his damaged Buell, the "Motorcyclist" editor's caption states: "A caved-in frame from a low-speed accident effectively totaled the author's Buell because he didn't have collision insurance.
Even worse, he was blamed for the accident, which wasn't his fault."...and I believe Mr.Broadway WAS somewhat "at fault" here.
You see, after 43 years of riding motorcycles, I have learned that a rider should ALWAYS slow down and approach with caution whenever coming up on a line of slow moving cars in any adjacent lane to them, even if the rider's lane "seems" clear ahead! Because, it's VERY likely that at least one of these cagers WILL pull out and into this cleared lane "of yours" at any time.
In other words, NEVER assume somebody in a car ahead of you is NOT in a hurry to get to where they're going, and that they will not take any opportunity they'll suddenly see before them to "get ahead" too.
(...and, as I stated above, I have a feeling THIS wasn't the lesson the young Mr. Broadway really learned here, because the way I read this article, it unfortunately seems the primary lesson he learned was not to mouth-off to a cop!)
