So, there I am cruising on a nice four lane divided road that winds it's way through a residential neighborhood on the way home from the office yesterday afternoon. The school buses were making the rounds. I was in the left lane behind a guy in a Lexis. Rounding a bend I saw a school bus about 50 yards ahead. As we approached, the bus turned on the flashing yellows (a prelude to flashing red).
The guy in the Lexis decides to "punch it" in order to get past the bus before the flashing reds came on so he wouldn't have to wait the half hour while the crumb crunchers lolly gagged their way off the school bus. I thought, "not a bad idea" so I rolled on the throttle. You know where I'm going here.... Well, Mr. Indecisive Lexis Driver decides at the last moment he'd better stop after all and slams on the brakes. I instinctively grapped full hands worth of clutch and brake while simultaneously hitting the back brake and moved slightly left to avoid Mr. Indecisive's rear bumber. I immediately felt the pulsing ABS system and realized I would have surely locked them up in the panic had I not had good ol' ABS riding shotgun.
I was clearly at fault for not giving myself enough distance between the Lexus and my TBird and the situation was made worse by the fact he decided to hard break just as I was rolling on the throttle...
I sat there and watched the brats file off the bus and thanked my trusty TBird ABS! Those ABS rings may be fuggly, but not as fuggly as bent chrome forks and busted headlight...
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