I was wondering if many of you had Experienced anything like Premonitions or a sense that somthing is going to happen just before you have had a “near miss” on your bike…
The other night i was riding down a bit of road in SE london, a road iv riden 1000’s of times.
it has a tight left hander at the bottom and i usualy give it a bit of gas threw there and try differnt lines thew the bend.
Im usualy fairly commited in my riding, trying not to let my brain think about what might happen so it can Concentrate on what is realy happening.
Anyways i had a funny feeling, i dont know just backed of a bit, hesitated…
The next thing a Black cab just turned across right in front of me without warning…
I found my self doing a 50 mph rolling stopie that turned into a big wobble as i tryed to stear the bike around the fast aproching wall of black with the back end of the bike still in the air…
Thank good for stearing dampers…
Missed the cab by inches and the oncoming traffic, Needless to say i turned round and chased after him.
After a few “choice” words i got a cursory hand up from the cabby but with little sign of remorse…
I spoze hes paid of his Conscience with a fat premium to his insurers…
He doesnt give a tossss…
Anyways!!!
This kind of thing has happend to me a few times now, a feeling of unease, whatever you want to call it.
Just wondering if many of you had experienced this sort of thing…
Well yes mate, if you’ll remember when I crashed a few weeks back.
I had a dream that morning that I was going to low side my bike on the right…A few hours later I was lying in the road with the bike on its right side after the tyres let go.
Strange…
A week later, I had a dream that my R6 would be stolen from outside my home because I was using a cheaper chain as my Almax was with my R1.
I decided to ride the R6 to my mate’s and park it in his secure garage…
Think you should listen to these things generally…I know other riders that have premonitions…Hey Rossi does too
Yep, call it my “Spidey sense”. I guess you could say that after a while we are conditioned as to our normal ride and we subconsiously pick up on things that we wouldnt ordinarily see. Mind you doesnt help me when I ride like a prat and end up on my arse.
The most significant one was when for months I could taste blood in my mouth and the sense that my face was smashed, I knew it was a car accident. I was coninced that I was going to have an accident. About three months later on a day that I would not normally be travelling between Wantage to Wallingford cutting through the farmers roads and at a time of the day that I would never usually be out, I saw a car ahead of me in the middle of the road.
I thought how inconsiderate had a crash and left the wreckage (single track road). As I got nearer I saw a car in a ditch to the left. Got out the car and saw the driver in the ditch he shouted that he was OK but both legs were broken. When I got to the car in the middle of the road there was a girl semi conscious face completely smashed… door jammed closed and engine smoking… Well after doing what was needed and trying to keep the girl with me until the services could get there I left, and not once thereafter had the feeling and smell and dread was gone.
I have had more of these but this was the one that was sooo intense. I have learned now to listen to these…when I ignore is usually the times that I wish I hadn’t.
I havent had any dreams but when on the road im always trying to anticipate every second of travel, its a biker thing about self preservation. So deep in concentration its like meditating, i guess we`re nurturing a 6th sense.
Forgot what its like actually as ive hardly been on the bike lately
