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Riding on the street is basically a dance between offensive and defensive riding at all times. You have to mentally train yourself to expect every driver on the road to do something stupid, which means you need to be aware of everything. I've been extremely lucky in that I have only had one accident on the street caused by another driver. I have however broken a few sideview mirrors and one driver side window trying to keep some asshole from merging me into a concrete barrier...I swear SUVs with women drivers are the biggest culprits as far as almost killing me.
I had one chick in a Tahoe almost run me into a concrete barrier while she was painting her nails...while driving. I was also unable to brake or accelerate out of that situation seeing as how I was in almost bumper to bumper traffic, so I hit her window. Surprised the crap out her she swerved out of my lane and ended up in a ditch...needless to say I couldn't have cared less about her welfare at that point. It all happened so fast I didn't even have time to really think about what i was doing...If motorcycle horns were even audible when a car has windows up that might be nice, but sportbikes have jokes for horns, hell you couldnt even hear my Aprilia's horn over the Akrapovic race exhaust I had on it...
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