Motorcycle Madness

The madness being a rant, at a motorist in a small sedan (circa '80s?) on my way home from work yesterday. While riding along Hwy160 at 50mph in the center lane (the left lane was soon to disappear at an exit to Del Paso Blvd.), the driver in the adjacent lane to the right begins to merge into my lane... while I was alongside the back third of her car!

I hit the horn button, holding it down when I saw that she was not about to retreat. I slowed so that I would not end up sharing the exact same space and at the exact same time as a vehicle six times heavier than mine. Something about the law of physics in spatial displacement I think, where yours truly would certainly lose out. If I were in a car, there would definitely have been contact.

My GS is by no means a tiny motorcycle. The headlights were on high beam for daytime conspicuity. I wear a bright yellow and black jacket. The horn is not the greatest, but no different than most found on all the current vehicles on the road (I really should think about getting those freight train horns installed!). I chalk it up to being another inattentive, oblivious and idiotic driver that could have contributed to me being another motorcycle accident statistic.

I let the birds fly upon exiting the highway about a mile later... none sooner, since the law of physics still applied... but I'd bet she didn't even notice through that thick cloud of oblivion. Would have been nice if I had a set of blue and red flashers and a siren!