Not What I wanted for my 2nd posting...

[nhawk7504_imp]

GLAD YOU ARE OK, JIM! I've had the same problem before. Sounds like they passed you halfway which put you into their blind spot and then jerked their wheel across your path. When I am passing an exit in the right lane, I ASSUME this is going to happen and watch that left side like a hawk. Another member in FL was hit from the left as well by someone changing lanes. I've had to move all the way over to the guardrail as a van changed lanes into me as I passed him on the left. He was full of people and chatting with them. - Sorry bout the bike, but you were saved by your gear as you said and that's the main thing. If you, or any of us are riding ahead of someone, let THEM do the paying attention TO YOU. We can't keep looking behind us to make sure someone stays with us. My wife has lagged behind me (as I ride or drive) and I just keep on trucking at the speed limit. It may not be polite to lose them, but it's deadly on a bike to lag behind with someone following. I later told my wife that if she is going to lag behind, I'm not waiting. Too dangerous. I ride in the middle lane until I need the exit and assume then, that the left lane guy will come over across my path, which they do from there too!