I was taking my wife to the doctor when a Suzuki SV650 passed me on the berm where the road narrows from 4 to 2 lanes. Several times the rider would give the bike enough gas to bring the front tire off the ground a couple inches and ride up on the car in front of him. Then he was swerving back and forth in the lane for a while. Next we are stopped at a red light in the left turn lane. He is the second vehicle in the turn lane and I am the third. The street we are turning on to is four lanes. The light turns green and the first car is going to the outside lane. The bike is going to the inside lane while the first car is still in the intersection. The guy on the bike hits the gas when the back tire is on a manhole cover. The back of the bike fish tailed a couple times and sideswipes the other car. He ended up laying in the inside lane and the bike partially in oncomming traffic. He got up after about ten seconds. A couple people stopped to help him but he did not want anyone to call for help. The frame near the steering looked bent, forks were twisted, fairing was cracked, brake lever and master cylender were knocked off and the front wheel was locked up. If he was not acting like and ass and not in a big hurry, I doubt that this accident would have happened

This is the definition of 'squid'. I don't mind people having fun and screwing around when others aren't around, but that sounds like the wrong place to be riding like an idiot. Part of me would have considered calling in just so I could give the police a good idea of what this idiot was doing prior to the wreck. Plus if the second vehicle was damaged at all from his wreck his ass (insurance) better be paying for all of it.

Ride safe everyone!

If he was not acting like and ass and not in a big hurry, I doubt that this accident would have happened

I'm a little bit more in the realm of certainty than you are! :mrgreen:

Still, you always hate to see another biker go down. I'm glad he's alright, I just hope he learns something. I bet there's more than one person around here who might admit to a little squidly riding in their youth before "something" set them straight.