Shook

This wasn't intended to be my next blog entry, but I'm a bit shaken.

I was just riding in the carpool lane of I-280 N headed towards work at a speed of roughly 80 MPH when a large black luxury sedan being driven by a middle-aged Asian man with a phone to his ear passed me in the same lane at a speed in excess of 90 MPH. The clearance to the right of my motorcycle was roughly a foot and a half.

If I had needed to avoid a road hazard or even sneezed, our vehicles would have collided, and I would have gone down, down, down. Luckily, I did not.

I've been riding for a year now, so I've seen my share of scary incidents on the highway. This is the first I've encountered that I didn't know how to deal with. I mean, I saw him coming. I was confused that he would approach my tail end so fast. Then before I had decided what to do about it, he passed me without slowing down.

First, if you're in a car, don't do that unless you're interested in racking up a vehicular manslaughter charge.

Second, if ever rapidly approached from behind by a vehicle, I will accelerate like the dickens and get the hell out of the lane.