Deal With It
Outstanding HDF Member
Joined: Aug 2010
Posts: 3,498
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There is very little I see on here that I haven't experianced myself, so I have to agree with the op. Cars cut me off all the time. Left turns? Seen a million. I've dodged flying objects falling off vehicles, thrown items, animals of all sorts, drunks, teens, snow, rain, ice, potholes, aholes, grandmas, you name it and I've crossed paths with it and anyone that's spent any meaningful amount of saddle time has probably seen it to. Hearing about someone elses close call doesn't make me any more cautious than I already am and to be perfectly honest, I really don't care.
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Joined: Feb 2012
Posts: 7,855
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From: Oroville,Washington.
There is very little I see on here that I haven't experianced myself, so I have to agree with the op. Cars cut me off all the time. Left turns? Seen a million. I've dodged flying objects falling off vehicles, thrown items, animals of all sorts, drunks, teens, snow, rain, ice, potholes, aholes, grandmas, you name it and I've crossed paths with it and anyone that's spent any meaningful amount of saddle time has probably seen it to. Hearing about someone elses close call doesn't make me any more cautious than I already am and to be perfectly honest, I really don't care.
Club Member
Joined: Mar 2009
Posts: 66,110
Likes: 51,394
From: Niles Canyon Ca.
I like when people post their near misses, so I can learn from them. But the other day there was a couple of threads about being rear ended at a light. So the next day I paid extra attention to my mirrors pulling up to a light. As I made a mental note of my development into a masturbator , the light turned green. I let out the clutch and stalled. I was in 3rd.
Duh!
Duh!
Grand HDF Member
Joined: Apr 2006
Posts: 4,915
Likes: 8
From: Austin TX
Yeah, after being on here for a few years, about 7 actually in my case, you get a little bored with the same topics every now and then. At first I felt the need to tell everybody my opinion on the over saturation situation when it came to helmet threads, heres a link to a motorcyclist who died threads, whats makes a biker? threads, waving threads ect... by posting smart assed comments in a lot of them.
Now I just pick my fights and only post smart assed comments in SOME of them.
This is whats known as real maturity.
Now I just pick my fights and only post smart assed comments in SOME of them.
This is whats known as real maturity.
Road Master
Joined: May 2009
Posts: 968
Likes: 2
From: Suburban Hell, MN
This is whats known as real maturity
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Joined: Feb 2011
Posts: 3,598
Likes: 1,231
From: Southeast Texas
Yeah, after being on here for a few years, about 7 actually in my case, you get a little bored with the same topics every now and then. At first I felt the need to tell everybody my opinion on the over saturation situation when it came to helmet threads, heres a link to a motorcyclist who died threads, whats makes a biker? threads, waving threads ect... by posting smart assed comments in a lot of them.
Now I just pick my fights and only post smart assed comments in SOME of them.
This is whats known as real maturity.
Now I just pick my fights and only post smart assed comments in SOME of them.
This is whats known as real maturity.
Club Member
Joined: Jul 2012
Posts: 6,905
Likes: 4,877
From: Midwest
I noticed I encounter things less the more I out into practice things I learned in MSF. At first, I was just concentrating on the tasks at hand while street riding after the class. As I loosended up, I paid much more attention to what is happening around me.
I have only been riding since the spring so my experience is miniscule compared to those who have ridden for years, obviously. But I think the MSF class really helped me with strategy on the road. If I had learned from someone else, I probably would not have picked up tips and such about lane position in taffic, how to handle intersections, etc..At first it was just academic info but I found it really was meanginfull info that i started using. I even re-read the manual we had in class.
I cover my brake at an intersection and slow if someone is waiting to turn or has a turn signal on. I have made a habit of this. I don't care who they are or what they are doing.
This has helped me already. Today, in fact. I was on a four lane blvd with limit of 45. There was a guy on the left in an SUV at a stop sign. No turn signal but I saw him there and he came right out in front of me. That was what I would class as my first close-call in terms of having to apply serious braking. I didn't have to panic stop full force but if I had not been anticipating something like this with the guy sitting there, I probably would have ended up in the side of the SUV. It sounds silly, but I am kind of glad that happened as this was the one thing that made me paranoid being a new rider--all the left turn danger stories ingrained in us during the class. I was pretty compsed about it and didn't overreact or panic slam the brakes like I probably would have fresh out of the class.
I have only been riding since the spring so my experience is miniscule compared to those who have ridden for years, obviously. But I think the MSF class really helped me with strategy on the road. If I had learned from someone else, I probably would not have picked up tips and such about lane position in taffic, how to handle intersections, etc..At first it was just academic info but I found it really was meanginfull info that i started using. I even re-read the manual we had in class.
I cover my brake at an intersection and slow if someone is waiting to turn or has a turn signal on. I have made a habit of this. I don't care who they are or what they are doing.
This has helped me already. Today, in fact. I was on a four lane blvd with limit of 45. There was a guy on the left in an SUV at a stop sign. No turn signal but I saw him there and he came right out in front of me. That was what I would class as my first close-call in terms of having to apply serious braking. I didn't have to panic stop full force but if I had not been anticipating something like this with the guy sitting there, I probably would have ended up in the side of the SUV. It sounds silly, but I am kind of glad that happened as this was the one thing that made me paranoid being a new rider--all the left turn danger stories ingrained in us during the class. I was pretty compsed about it and didn't overreact or panic slam the brakes like I probably would have fresh out of the class.