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Where and what was the closes call you've had that scared the crap out of you

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Unfortunately I have to ride the scariest roads in the GTA - DVP/Hwy 404 and Hwy 401.

While riding just north of 401 on 404 I was in the right lane going about 110 and a car to my left started to wander into my lane and actually drove me onto the shoulder I looked over and blew my horn.. he was TEXTING!!! he looked up, gave me the finger and drove off. Scared the crap out of me, he must have missed me by inches.
 
omg what an a.s.s!!! i would be SO ****** if it happened to me... did you remember his plate?
 
Get the plate, make/model, time, best description of the person as you can. There is some place on the TPS you can report. They'll call you ask if you want to press charges (you'll have to go file statement, show up as witness in trial). If not, he still gets a knock on the door from a big guy with a moustache (you know, the bad cop).
 
I ride the DVP/404 all the time, I've had a couple people try to move into my lane, but nothing too crazy yet. One of them was a sewage truck.. thought to myself "**** that, I'm not going out like this"

The closest call I've had to date would probably be 2 days ago, I was making my way to 45, east of Orillia. I was turning right on a green onto 45, and lost the back end for a bit. I don't know how it managed to stay upright, but it did. Pulled off to the side and noticed the intersection was covered in a fine gravel that was the same color as the damn road
 
Back on topic, most of my Oh Snap moments come from wet street car tracks or cabs downtown.
 
That sucks man. I had a guy last year in an escalade ( or something similar) almost run me off the road on the qew in a similar way. He was in the center lane an I was on his right. He decided he needed to take a last minute exit and I was in his way. Instead of slowing down to let me pass he decided to deliberately merge into my lane. He looked me straight in the eye as he did it. He forced me off the road and I had to slow down to like 40 so I didn't hit him. I've never wanted to get back at someone so badly but there was no chance to follow him after I passed the exit he took.
 
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This is one of my closest calls, and entirely would have been my own fault/error, and was from mid-2011 season when I was on a Ninja 650R. 2nd time I'd had an incident like this, the first was back on my 250R and under similar conditions. Learned my lesson after this one. :p
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For a while I couldn't figure out what I did wrong here, some suggested it may have been oil or sand on the road etc.. but from watching it over a few times, I'm fairly certain the main cause was that I had leaned the bike over too far, with incorrect body positioning, and accelerated a bit too hard/early out of the turn. You can see this particularly in the slow-mo replay, where my view shifts from not-quite-left-enough to the center/*right* side just before the bike "bucks". For how far over the bike was leaned, I should have been hanging my body off the left side of the bike (and the bike should never have gotten over that far) and I probably further unsettled it by shifting my weight mid-turn. I distinctly recall thinking "I am NOT dropping this bike!" as it happened, as it was still very new to me and had no crash frame sliders etc... scared the crap out of a newer rider who was right behind me at the time (he might even remember this ride and comment here, lol...)
 
Going east on hwy 7. Someone coming west about to make a left turn infront of me. They speed half way through the turn, realize I'm coming straight at them... Then they stop on the middle of the intersection. I was in the left lane. Thank god it was late at night and the road was dead. I had to swerve into on coming traffic lane to avoid the idiot ...

Pulled over for a bit. Scared the crap outta me. Had to compose myself, thank the lord, then continue on my way
 
TekNinja81 said:
I distinctly recall thinking "I am NOT dropping this bike!" as it happened, as it was still very new to me and had no crash frame sliders etc... scared the crap out of a newer rider who was right behind me at the time (he might even remember this ride and comment here, lol...)
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that would be me LOL, i remember i told you i saw your bike pop up a foot and bunny hopped before it settled and i was like holy crap terry how the hell did you get out of that lol
 
I was east bound on major mackenzie just before dufferin. Anyone who travels that area knows that the left hand passing lane usually gets clogged with anyone trying to make a left to go northbound. Well I was in the right hand lane approaching Dufferin travelling at speed. Everyone in the left hand lane was stopped because it was clogged. I guess this lady was tired of waiting because without signalling, looking or anything, spun her wheels to the right and pulled out right in front of me. She was attempting to get in the right hand lane to go around the people trying to go north. Anyway, I slammed on my brakes, the Hayabusa bucked a little bit (too much front brake) and my feet came off the pegs and sputtered along the pavement (my feet) before I stopped the bike. She had made the corner too sharp and when she figured out that she couldn't complete the turn without mounting the curb she stopped dead in the lane. If I had hit her I would have gone through the passenger side window and probably into her lap.

I will admit I lost my cool, My front tire stopped mere inches from her door. I was screaming at her through my helmet and her windows. I said some not so nice things. She backed her little gold corolla up and drove off down the road. Without so much as an apology or to see if I was ok.

I took down her license plate and reported her to road watch, along with the witness info of a person who saw the entire incident. He was a volunteer fire fighter. He thought for sure I was going over the bars. I privately hope she gets her just desserts for her careless movement, but in the form of a wake-up call. I don't wish ill on people, but by God this woman just about killed me over her getting home 4 or 5 mins earlier than if she had waited.
 
killerkeith said:
I don't have close calls...I just crash.
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No Half measures right Keith

My worst moment wasnt a close call but boy did it make me crap my pants . A bird flew out a feild and struck me on the chest. I was going 90-100 at the time. I saw the bird in slow motion as well..bit welt was left and im pretty sure he didnt survive. Poor birdy
 
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First time 2upping.
Riding north on Airport Road to Wasaga.
Some guy decides to suddenly stop in the middle of the road to make a left-turn, either I didn't see the lights or he really stopped that fast.
I didn't notice he was stopped until I got a little close. Being the first time 2-upping I didn't want to jam the break as hard as I usually do in emergency stops; so I couldn't stop in time. So I just went off into the gravel shoulder to avoid it (I have lots of experience riding on/in gravel, thankfully.)

I'm really not sure if it was my fault for not noticing soon enough (I do tend to get distracted). But I'm thinking it might be (and coincidentally different road, same color/type of vehicle, same thing happened a few weeks later. Just not 2-up so I did my normal breaking procedure.)

Oh, and the only reason it scared me is because I didn't want my 2-up getting hurt...
 
My closest calls would have been the ones in which I crashed (all my own fault mind you).

My closest call where I came out unscathed would be on the 401 where an older fellow in a Civic decided to cut off a moving truck (how/why he did this I don't know, how can you not see something like this?).
Anyways I was behind the truck, it slammed on the brakes, and the back end started drifting out to the shoulder... Which in the situation would have been my only out. Luckily the rear regained traction and all was good. It was an "oh *****" moment when I realized I would have to try and gun it on the shoulder as the back of the truck drifted towards me...

Another really close one was on the southbound 400 where it meets the 401. I wanted to go eastbound and the SUV in front of me decided he wanted to butt in line and then at the last second slam on his brakes to try and get into the Westbound lane (essentially stopping all traffic in that lane). I barely had time to stop, and by barely I mean I did an endo and still thought I hit the back of his car. Fortunately I stopped about 1/2 and inch from it... When I got home I had to have a serious sit down and reevaluate why I ride, and more so how I should be riding...

Ride like your invisible people; ride like anything can, and eventually will happen!
 
Bay Street northbound, under the railway tracks.

TTC bus pulled out to pass my bicycle and then pulled back in while I was at his back doors.

Almost became a squishy blob on the plexiglas.

Since then I try not to take the TTC, and I rarely ride a bike in the city centre.
 
eljay said:
Get the plate, make/model, time, best description of the person as you can. There is some place on the TPS you can report. They'll call you ask if you want to press charges.
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I had a cop once tell me "This is not the U.S. You don't press charges. We decide whether we are going to lay charges." *shrugs*
 
streestville, just west of mississauga rd on Britannia. the cop was driving on the center lane not paying att, almost hit before she seen i was setting in the lane making a left turn,. and yes it was my left turn lane not hers to drive down , she was trying to get back in to canada brick at the time to run more radar.
 
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I've had way too many close calls to count. Most i've seen coming and been able to get myself out of harms way, but there have been a few where someone has come out of no where. One that comes to mind was my first time taking the DVP downtown. I was in the left right lane driving at the speed limit and this dude comes speeding up from behind in the middle lane and start cutting into my lane before even getting to my. dude missed me by no more than 2 inches. I didn't see him until it was happening.

There have been a couple of others that involved me gearing down when i shouldn't have on a wet road while going through a curve. Rear wheel slid out big time. Amazing that i didn't go down. Both happened in my first month or so of riding. I know better now. ;)
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