Glad you didn't hit her. Good brakes are a must, as the SUV that was pulling a trailer yesterday learned. Guy had too big of a trailer for the SUV, and tried to do a panic stop on the freeway. He couldn't stop even tho he had some distance between him and the vehicle in front of him, so he swerved hard left.
Nowhere to go except the curb and median, but he didn't make it, and flipped twice, landing upside down across the oncoming traffic.
It crushed the SUV, but amazingly, no one hit him, including the R bike that was coming pretty fast. I watched it all, and the biker had smoke coming off BOTH wheels in a panic stop. Handled it pretty well I thought. He came to a stop about 15 feet from the wrecked SUV, and was probably running in the 70-75 mph range. The SUV was just around a blind corner too, so the biker didn't see him until he rounded the corner. The vehicle next to the bike could not stop, so he went into the median by the service road.
__________________  The "other" ZZR rider.
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