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Riding into the ferry terminal carpark at Haines, Alaska, it’s a big carpark and I ride down the No. 2 lane as I’d been told, already a lot of cars and 8 bikes there, suddenly a car driving down lane 1 turns in front of me, I veer right, evasive action mode, to try and get around but he’s turning too fast and I smash into his right front corner, wobble on a metre or two and crash out!!

ENJOY THE TRIP?….COME BACK IN THE FALL!

Bill Shum
2006-08-21 17:00:55

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Riding into the ferry terminal carpark at Haines, Alaska, it’s a big carpark and I ride down the No. 2 lane as I’d been told, already a lot of cars and 8 bikes there, suddenly a car driving down lane 1 turns in front of me, I veer right, evasive action mode, to try and get around but he’s turning too fast and I smash into his right front corner, wobble on a metre or two and crash out!!…..Check fingers and toes, check everything else, feels ok, stagger up, the front end of the little Chevy has been torn off and dents on the door and bonnet, fark!, what about the bike, my heart sinks…a couple of BMW riders have raced over from the queue, the brotherhood again!…one takes a couple of pix, they help me pick her up and onto the centre stand, the crash bar has taken most of the impact and is bent back almost to the head, did it’s job fantastically, indicator light busted, but no other damage, I’m feeling a few bruises on knee, hip, ribs and elbow, and another sprained thumb... but nothing too serious, tomorrow will tell!
The driver has jumped out and is I should think so…he calls the cops and a woman cop soon turns up, takes our details…. turns out this bozo is a Canadian cop, from Whitehorse, we swap details and I test the bike…all seems to be working.

Then it’s onto the ferry, really a big ship, her name is the Malaspina, not very encouraging, 350 passengers and a big car deck full of trucks, cars and the inevitable RVs….6 BMWs 2 1100 GS and 4 1150 GS, plus a couple of Harleys. We tell crash and horror stories on into the night, fantastic the quality of BMW riders.

I’m sleeping up on deck, a covered area with sun lounges and heaters a bit too high up and maybe 15 of us sleeping el cheapo...everyone else is in cabins....it's a bit chilly and I wake up stiff and sore at 3am when we stop in Petersburg, but a magic light, like twilight time, and I sit up as we negotiate the Narrows, ...