As all bikers know when you ride, you watch everything. Today was one of those very close calls. Riding home after running errands, I was on Monroe St. in Tiffin, which is one way going south. I was coming up to Madison when a driver on Madison came to the stop sign and I could tell she was going to do a "stop and go", so I started to apply my brakes. She tapped her brakes and went, but instead of going straight she turned the wrong way on the one way street. Yes, head on with me! I hit my brakes, slid sideways but managed to not lay my bike down. There were honestly inches between her car and my leg. Oh yes, she kept going and by the time I was able to get turned around SHE was gone! Any one that knows Tiffin and me, knows that was only one block from where I was T-boned on my Harley by another car in 1977 and was laid up for 2 years. So flashbacks and adrenalin rush---I was PISSED, but this will only make my ride safer. Eyes wide open! As I tell my sons when they ride, "It does not matter if you are Right on a motorcycle, it still Hurts!"
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