Ok, this is just a thought I had this morning, while laying on the pavement being told not to move (I'm fine, I wasn't telling myself not to move)... When you see a red light ahead of you as you travel along a public road, what do _you_ do? I mean I generally slow down and prepare to stop, while simultaneously hoping that it changes to green before I get to it. Unfortunately, that is _not_ what the gentleman whose bumper I found myself bouncing off of this morning did. He instead proceeded to maintain speed and travel into the intersection, wherein my bike and I collided violently with him.

Honda 599: probably totalled

Hip: Bruised and raspberried

Brandon: Sore and roughed up

Brand new Jacket: Broken in, not to bad I don't think

Car: Pretty well smashed in driver's door

I guess it's not the worst timing really -- I just bought a new primary motorcycle... so if the 599 is totalled, it just means that I don't have to sell it, but really... seriously... red lights... they mean something.

I probably would have been able to stop if it hadn't also been raining gently shortly before I was out riding -- just enough to wet down the slippery stuff on the pavement, but not enough to wash it away. Who knows though, red lights... yeah...