I survived an accident on my HArley doing 50mph on the 101. Happy to be alive.
 

I know Ive been away awhile. Theres some people I wanna message and say hi to..BUT the saying IT JUST WASNT YOUR TIME was never more meaningful to me than last Teus.
After working the Laker vs Dallas game I was heading ho,me on the 101 near Laurel Canyon. I was in the fast lane next to the divider and there was a car about 20 feet ahead of me in the center lane. All of a sudden there was a tremendous crash from a car in the right lane hitting the car in the center lane. The impact threw the car into my lane and I had no time but to brace for impact. I was doing about 70 at the time I got hit and all I can remember as I was going down was,,THIS IS IT. This is how I die. From what I remember I turned to the left and was thrown from bike.At the same time I remember seeing sparks from the bike laying down sliding away from me. I rolled for a bit then slide for a bit. When I stopped I remember thinking 2 things.. holy shit im still alive and holy shit im still in the middle of the speed lane. I just rolled my body close to the divider and then it got all quiet. Assistance came and all I can recall people saying is how lucky I was, My bike rolled about 100 feet from where I stopped. ALl that happened was a banged up arm and some aches and pains. I feel extremely blessed to be here and I suggest everyone feel lucky to be alive because evry day may be your last here on earth.

Glad to hear you are OK Joe, been there done that, nice to be here to talk about it :thumbsup:thumbsup

damn all vehicles are dangerous

holy fuck...glad youre alright man!

Debating buying my first bike in a few months and this is basically the debate. Not worried about myself but other assholes on the road texting etc... If I lived in the country no problem but heavily populated city has me debating the purchase. Glad your alright. :thumbsup

dang dude! good thing you're alive! kudos man!
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Whew...good to hear that you are okay!

Ya know buddy. im a believer that your time to die is already determined. Doesn't matter where u are, so live life to the fullest.

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Damn Joe. :Oh crap

Glad you're okay dude! :thumbsup

Be safe... :)

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ADG

wow thats crazy, you never forget that moment when you say to yourself , this is it and for that split second you think your dead.

how you fucking roll, pun partially intended :thumbsup

Glad to hear that you're OK.

Holy shit! I'm glad you're ok. Did y ou have your leather to slide like that?

Whew!!! You're still alive :)

Glad you're ok Joe.

Glad you are still here Joe... I bought content packs and got some custom stuff from you years ago and you are always awesome to deal with. Heal up!

Glad you are ok.

Glad to hear your OK Joe, sounds like a massive crash to walk away from.

Glad you're here Joe and not much worse for wear too!

holy shit dude, what an incredible story. Glad you're ok :)

Cheers to an enhanced appreciation of life!

Had my NDE this past Xmas day.

It felt damn good waking up in the ER despite all the tubes coming out of me. I look at things very differently nowadays and still am processing that if the ambulance hadn't made it to me so quickly that I could have been dead.

Those EMS guys saved my life without a doubt.

Glad you're OK!

that was close

Guessing you were wearing decent gear and a helmet? Hope the bike wasn't damaged too much!

You're lucky man,it was the hockey gods looking out for you

Damn man, that's some insane shit. Glad you're OK and still around with us.

Glad you're okay, Joe. I have a motorcycle license but don't own a bike as I'm scared of driving one in LA traffic.

Ugh I take the highway everyday to work, been using my bike since the weather is so nice too :( glad to hear you're ok but this is one of my biggest fears

glad you ok man.... rest up

I am glad you're alive! :thumbsup

Lucky man, that is really fast to go down on a bike.

I got rammed on my bike only doing 35 and it fucked me up for months before I was even able to work. God you are lucky.

So let's do it right today!

Have to respectfully disagree with you on that.

Agreed.

It's a good day to be on the right side of the sod!

sounds like you need to tighten up on your cartwheels and handsprings ;) Glad to hear you are ok man, sounds like you dodged a bullet there.

yeah, me too.... no more bikes for me

I love to ride bikes but that is my biggest fear. Good luck for you (y)

Wow. Quite the story. Glad you came out of it in one piece.
How will this change you?

You ride long enough and you end up with a couple of stories like that!



Glad you're ok dude!





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Really glad to hear you're fine. I've been involved in 3 car accidents and I can tell you're a lucky man.

I was going to say 50 miles isnt fast, but I was think Kilometers, hope your alright man, must have been scary.

Wow man glad you are ok!

Wow, glad you are okay.

The things i've seen you do on your bike... you're lucky to be alive.


Joe, glad to see you made out ok.

Joe my man. You said very true things. Every day meter. Steve Jobs say live every day like your last day. Happy Birthday man.

Drive slow. or play ice hockey instead

A motorcycle accident at that speed... Your very lucky man!

glad you're up and about again. Dumping a bike can be a dangerous ordeal.

Glad to hear this ended with you being alive, Joe. Some years ago my younger brother wanted to take his Bike test and I begged him not to, he had paid for it in full, non refundable, I talked him out of it and gave him back every cent out my own pocket so he wouldn't take the test, he is bad enough in a car, I couldn't imagine him on a Bike.

Crazy luck buddy, glad to hear you are ok. That is pretty much a miracle at that speed.

50 mph in the fast lane on 101? damn, was it like 3am and no traffic, that's hauling ass!

You're a survivor. Welcome to the ranks. Yes, I took a couple of road slides back in the 80's, although the worst one was at around 60 km/h which is about 20kms slower than yours. I was cut off in heavy downtown traffic, I got somewhat banged up and earned some road rash on my left leg, had the leather jacket and helmet on. Bike was totalled. And as it happens there was an unmarked police car stopped just ahead of me (about 30 feet past where my bike stopped sliding), they saw everything, called for a tow truck, and an ambo for me.

As it happenedc a carload of hot girls pulled over, all of them saw what happened, all were freaked out, and I ended up getting one of their numbers. Nice blonde in the back seat. She turned out to be a danger addict so I had to let her go but it was fun while it lasted.

Ah the memories.

I don't think I know a single rider from back in those days who didn't earn some road rash. Thankfully most survived, as did you Joe. Welcome back btw.