When the ride hits home

[Gone in 60]

Wow, that's quite a story, Tev. And the reason I will not participate on a ride with people I don't know, no matter how mature they seem to be (Other than the DGR, which is at a nice, slow pace through city streets and for a cause I support.) Good on you for helping the fellow. He must have really been shaken.

If I read the landscape correctly on the scene I passed, it was clearly a group of sport bike riders. They would likely have come out of the nearby canyon behind them, which encourages fast riding. Maybe it was a group of riders of different levels of skill and testosterone.

The one time I was in a position similar to yours, I was riding home in heavy traffic on the freeway near my office. I came upon a girl pinned under her Honda Fury chopper in the middle of traffic. No other cars seemed to be involved, so seemed as though she had panic stopped in the bumper-to-bumper traffic and fell over. I blocked traffic with my bike and got her and her chopper to the shoulder, while giving unpleasant gestures to the stopped traffic that was now honking at us. She was dazed and couldn't speak, but gestured to the phone in her pocked - I handed it to her, she dialed a number and handed it back to me. The voice on the phone said "Where did you go, I lost you in traffic!" Seems this girl was struggling to keep up with her friend, who was probably weaving or splitting through traffic and going quite a bit faster.