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     Thatman |
It was a very hot afternoon here in the Brazos Valley, and the local HD dealership was very busy indeed. A friend and I had just stopped in to buy some oil and gaskets; we were just getting back on our bikes to head home and noticed a brand spanking new Harley go idling by. I was just about to throw a leg over when my friend yelled look at that guy. I turned to see a cloud of dust where this fellow had just crossed the feeder road and gone through the median to get on the busy freeway. There is no on-ramp and we knew the man was in trouble, I noticed the salesman had a worried look on his face; my buddy and I raced after the out of control rider. The man somehow got off the freeway and came to a red light, I could see my buddy yelling at him, later I learned he was trying to get the guy to pull the clutch in; evidently the man was too scared or had a death grip on the bars and couldn’t pull the clutch and continued forward and over a low section of guard rail and proceeded to head straight through another section of median and straight at the busy freeway again. Finally he dumped the bike about thirty feet from the highway. Our speed limit is set at seventy and it’s not unknown for drivers to be doing eighty or more in this area. When we finally got to the man he was shaken up very badly with only a cut on his leg to show for his stupidity. He looked to me like a professor type from A&M University with too much money and not a lick of common sense. Luckily no one was hurt, although I would imagine some of the cagers on the highway had to go change their shorts when they got home. I just can’t describe in a short post how this event unfolded and after all was said and done, I have no video or pics. This is the second incident of this kind at this dealership and I think it is criminal to allow a man or woman who does not know how to ride to take a bike out like this fool did. He could have died in a very messy manner or caused a bad accident on the freeway. Oh, he was dressed in shorts shirt sneakers and no helmet. |
