What the ????

Check this out. I was riding home from work and there is a little section of entrance and exit ramps that's good for throwing down some good lean angle and corner speed. (that's about all there is to ride in kansas city) any way I was feeling good and hauling ass around this right hand curve that goes slightly up hill and flips to a quick left down hill, then comes to a stop. (Mind you I'm exiting the highway, it's one way traffic.) As I'm coming over the crest of this hill I found myself in a game of chicken with a Honda Prelude going the wrong direction on an exit ramp!!! I freaked out and just reacted by grabbing a handful of brake and getting into the shoulder. I pulled over and caught my breathe and I watched the guy in the Prelude flip a U-turn and then come back the direction I was just going. At least he did that, and didn't actually get on to the highway going the wrong direction. So I've parked my bike on a sidewalk I've got my helmet off and I'm still trying to get over this totally random, would have been devistating crash, that would likely have killed me, and this *** gets down to the stop sign where I am and flips another U-turn to get on the correct side of the road and drives away without so much as a "sorry man, you alright?" What a dick!!! To be clear though I did not crash. I am okay. My point in that story is, for the love of God always drive on the correct side of the road.  

The current US population is roughly 300,000,000, which means that even if only 1/10 of 1% of those people are complete *** idiots, it means you have 30,000 morons to watch out for. He probably hoping to get away from you before you could write down his plate number.  

WOW! good thing you kept your head and didn't lowside and slide into him. I'll bet you have more than 5years riding experience; most newbies would panick and drop it. im glad you were able to avoid that nut. Just last summer I read a story in my paper about a motorcyclist who was killed in the exact situation you described.  

Yeah in situations you don't really have time to think. You just react. This time I reacted the right way I think. My fiancee would have been pissed if I had gotten hurt or killed. I don't want to toot my own horn, but I'm glad I've got a couple of years under my belt and several thousand miles. Otherwise it may not have turned out the way it did. So I'm able to ride another day.  

was the wrong way driver DWO lol . I think you should always ride with a push moving through traffic. if you sit in traffic like a sheep your going to die. I cant stand sitting at a light with nobody else around just waiting to get smacked in the ass by a car comming to the light.  

I say good job in keeping your head. Glad to see you were able to manuver and avoid this accident. This is what I go through in Miami, every day. Keep your head up!!  

I'm glad you're still around to talk about it. Sometimes I drive my wife to work on my cb 600f. One day we got to a one way loop by her work that goes around a big parking lot. As soon as I turn into it I have to swurve out of the way of a car going the wrong way. Right after, when I was cursing about my wife and I almost getting tore up I see another car coming right at us with I confused look on the drivers face. I barely made it around that idiot. Your probably thinking that such bad luck can't be and that I was going the wrong way. Nope, I have driving that road over a hundred times. Everyday, I try to remind myself, that if I let my guard down, or even if I don't, I might be in a body bag by day's end. Sometimes I wish I new if they didn't see me,or if they saw me and don't give a ***  

Every newbie ought to be required to read these posts...No one gets into riding thinking "this is a dangerous SPORT." We all need to remind each other how much of a SPORT motorcycling IS...Like all sports it's a hell of a lot of fun, but not without risks. And many of the risks we face are from other, un-aware, inconciderate car drivers.