Seems if you were 3 or 4 car lenghts back and only doing 30-40 thats plenty of time to either swerve or stop and just maybe bump into the back of him. I would have taken the grass route instead of laying it down. I havnt ridden since I had my chopper but I still remember shit from the MSF over 6 years ago when I took it.

 

Didn't you rear end him? By reading the title I was thinking that maybe he plowed into you and took off. Either way that was a shitty thing for him to do.

 

Sorry to hear that, The same thing happened to my girls dad on his harley except it was a van, same description of everything else. It did happen in clearwater, We might have ourselves some kind of anti-bike terorist.

 

+1

Looks like you locked up that rear brake to me.
(Notice the skid mark in the first pic).

Sorry about your mishap, glad to hear your ok though.

 

Thats sucks, but good thing you had all your gear on. Also good plug for the MRA course. Alot of people dont realize how much good, life saving, info you can learn from it. How much room do you think you had from the time your tires locked till you hit the ground and stopped? Stopping from 30-40mph shouldn't have been that bad. But good thing you made a decision. Right or wrong, your alive and not that hurt and thats what counts.

I hope they catch the guy. Even if he didn't actually hit you. He still should have stopped and helped. How fucked up a person can you be to just leave someone laying hurt in the middle of the road. That's just wrong.

Get better

 

I live right off that road as well. Ride it almost daily. We've probably waved to each other at some point

I hate merging traffic patterns. Even worse there now with the construction going on. I usually get over into the left lane soon as I can, then I don't have to worry about finding a space at the end. The stop light you mentioned, must be the one next to the Marathon gas station? He must of pulled up next to you in the left turn lane, what an ass.

Lots of trucks that look like 95-97 WHITE FORD EXPLORERs Will keep an eye out for it though.

That road is a posted 35mph, of course the flow of traffic is usually 40-45mph.

I think your lucky that the guy took off. He probably either didn't have a license and/or maybe no insurance. Usually the one who did the rear-ending is assumed guilty, even if it was the front vehicles "fault". Glad you didn't get a ticket out of it.

Is the bike still rideable? Did you have collision coverage?

Very glad it didn't turn out worse!

 

Sorry to hear u went dowm, good that your not hurt...bike can be fixed