Was out on my Daytona back on Monday and traffic was heavy which I discovered was due to the access to the Dunoon to Cairndow road being closed. It's finally been reported on the BBC news why it was closed. A 48 year old on a Yamaha FZS1000 smacked himself into an artic just near the junction and copped his whack. Without actually having been at the crash site I can tell you exactly what happened. I spied the blue lights not far down the road from the junction and just at the junction with a turn in for the forestry which is right on a bend. What will have happened will be that the bloke was coming flying up the road from Dunoon, came round the bend straight into an artic loaded with lumber just coming out from the turn onto the forestry on the right and soft squishy object moving fast met very large object moving slow.
Having been spending some time watching YouTube video's of biking incidents and mishaps and also known of numerous incidents over the years I have to say that, while there are unavoidable accidents where motorists and truckers are clearly at fault, a hell of a lot of bikers have no-one to blame but themselves. Whatever happened to the whole idea of approaching motorcycling from the point of view that everything else on the roads will be trying to kill you and riding defensively?
On a side note where this accident happened is literally a couple of hundred yards from a spot where I previously stated that I often feel a creepy sensation that makes me extra cautious at a sort of fairly hidden junction which gives access to a local fish farm.