Almost went down hard this morning. Perfect morning mid 40's and sunny, cruising along nicely when a van that was parked to my right pulls out right in front of me and does a complete U-turn. I tried to bail to the right, just about where the van was parked; bad move, another van is parked in the space ahead. Now I'm coming at the parked van, braking and starting to skid, luckily I was able to unclip fast enough to put a foot down to prevent me from going down either into or under the parked van. It just shows that you can be doing everything right like riding in the middle of the lane, using lights (even in daylight), and still get nailed. A big f*** you to the jagoff in the 1980's p.o.s. black van this morning, you are the textbook example of a ******bag American happily putting away in their huge, ugly, gas guzzling, smog belching pile o' crap!
There, I feel much better now.