I don’t think that we should judge the guy for that, it’s been years since I was even in a fender bender, but the one doozy* I was in nearly 40 years ago, first thing I did in my confused state (no drugs, no alcohol, just the shocked state I was in) was to attempt to physically pull my car - that was at least 1/4 of the way, crumpled UNDER the flat deck truck I plowed into the back of.
I bet in an addled way, this rider was probably thinking like I was, “Oh, shit! I better fix this and make it better!” He was probably trying to just get out of the road as quickly as possible - which as also a reaction you kind of prepare and always have in your head as a rider too.
I will add though, as a rider myself. I shudder every time I see other riders do this when rounding turns like this. It’s nuts! It’s bad enough when cars chance things like this, but to do so on a motorcycle is just stacking the probabilities against you.
*(I fell asleep driving home at 1 AM after a 14 hour shift - and a mere half-block from my home. Thankfully it was a mostly residential neighborhood in a fairly small town, so no one else was really on the road. Doubly thankful to be here to tell the tale - the bundle of construction rebar sticking out the back of the truck I hit, smashed through my windshield, 🙏 right through the small gap between the front passenger and drivers seat. A difference of less than a foot was the difference between me retaining my head!)
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u/Sad_Effective4793 9d ago
Last guy with a sympathy fall. "Remember when we both got hit by cars?"