Richard Stanley
08-07-2009, 07:13 AM
"He was out West, maybe in Colorado even, riding his motorcycle with some others, not wearing a helmet, following a truck which turned its left turn signal on to make a left turn, then (did not state how long) the motor cycle riders passed the truck on the left, with the first several making it by the truck and when Bruce went to pass the truck turned left and Bruce was hit and killed, a rider behind Bruce managed to swerve to the right around the truck.
1) Regardless how independent you want to feel about it, IT IS STUPID to ride a motorcycle without a helmet.
2) IT IS STUPID to pass a vehicle on the left which put its turn signal on for a left turn.
Two STUPID THINGS lead him to die in that crash.
He was just buried here yesterday, and, wouldn't you know it, there was a long line of motorcycle police following the procession and the first ones slowed for some reason, the others behind them failed to slow quick enough to hit the ones in front of them - a motorcycle mishap involving several motorcycle in the funeral procession for a well know motorcycle rider and dealer who died from a motorcycle accident.
Is that fate or what?
When I heard it was in Colorado (where I think it was), I thought "Wonder if Nick was riding with them?"
Foregoing is quote from Jerry P taken from a thread that turned in to inspector politics.
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I was on vacation last week.
We were touring the northwest area.
I happened to drive by an accident in Wyoming on a 2 lane hiway.
There were 2 motorcycles laying down.
There was a state policeman, an ambulance, a pick up towing a camper, several other bikes. In as much as this was way out in the middle of nowhere, I would guess that it happened 20 - 30 minutes before I passed it.
I did not stop - there was plenty of help there and not much parking room.
Later that evening, in Casper, Wy., I heard about the accident on the news ..tho I did not catch the deceased mans name at the time...they said he was from Florida, was the biggest Harley dealer (13 Dealerships) in the country.
They reported that he was riding with 6 other riders, was the last in line, the others passed the camper, and when he started to pass the camper turned left.
I had several conversations with bikers in the next few days - just to satisfy my curiosity about this person. Many had not heard about it yet.
There were thousands of bikers in that part of the country all headed for Sturgis.
1) Regardless how independent you want to feel about it, IT IS STUPID to ride a motorcycle without a helmet.
2) IT IS STUPID to pass a vehicle on the left which put its turn signal on for a left turn.
Two STUPID THINGS lead him to die in that crash.
He was just buried here yesterday, and, wouldn't you know it, there was a long line of motorcycle police following the procession and the first ones slowed for some reason, the others behind them failed to slow quick enough to hit the ones in front of them - a motorcycle mishap involving several motorcycle in the funeral procession for a well know motorcycle rider and dealer who died from a motorcycle accident.
Is that fate or what?
When I heard it was in Colorado (where I think it was), I thought "Wonder if Nick was riding with them?"
Foregoing is quote from Jerry P taken from a thread that turned in to inspector politics.
__________________________________________________ ____________________________
I was on vacation last week.
We were touring the northwest area.
I happened to drive by an accident in Wyoming on a 2 lane hiway.
There were 2 motorcycles laying down.
There was a state policeman, an ambulance, a pick up towing a camper, several other bikes. In as much as this was way out in the middle of nowhere, I would guess that it happened 20 - 30 minutes before I passed it.
I did not stop - there was plenty of help there and not much parking room.
Later that evening, in Casper, Wy., I heard about the accident on the news ..tho I did not catch the deceased mans name at the time...they said he was from Florida, was the biggest Harley dealer (13 Dealerships) in the country.
They reported that he was riding with 6 other riders, was the last in line, the others passed the camper, and when he started to pass the camper turned left.
I had several conversations with bikers in the next few days - just to satisfy my curiosity about this person. Many had not heard about it yet.
There were thousands of bikers in that part of the country all headed for Sturgis.