I have a feeling plenty of collisions happen with people not paying attention and end up stating they had the right of way when they were hit. Had they have done what you did plenty of costly repairs could well be avoided along with personal injury.

An old tomb stone recital "He was right dead right but he's as dead as if he'd been wrong".

 

You know in 51 years of riding I have never had a close call with a trucker. Almost every single time I ride anywhere with the cars though. Truckers in general are good drivers - part of it I guess is that they don't make suddenly jerky motions ignoring that you're there, "almost" feel safe riding around them.
Big difference.

 

While I mostly agree, a rant that could go on and on, due diligence is still required they are still human. One of the easiest mistakes that a trucker can make is not leaning forward or back past the west coast mirrors when pulling out, you can even miss another truck behind those.

 

ole saying: "aim high on the steering and always leave yourself an out"
however, due diligence does not always work. case in point. came up on an intersection and the red light went green/yellow/red in a heartbeat, no time to stop and it was a blind intersection as an old lady planted heavy shrubbery to block traffic noise. made a mortal mistake and tried to beat if by going diagonal across the intersection but when i saw that wasn't working, laid the machine down and let it take the beating, thanks to dirt tracking. bought the machine aug 1974 and totaled it jan 1975. thank goodness it was winter and no helmet law was around and i worn a real navy P-coat. took the front end of a real bumper on a 1972 chevy impala. funny thing is everything went slow motion the black for a second, opened my eyes or whatever was going on and saw i was in the middle of the intersection and got up and ran to the side of the road, shaken but not stirred. well meaning people came and kept putting me laying down till i cut loose on them as i HAD to get my helmet off as i was burning hot, then an ambulance came and wisked me away. the only thing that was messed up was some bruised kidneys and when i left the machine the manual foot swung out and caught my boot and ripped it off my foot. what saved me later grief was the signal was messed up and blame shifted.
there was this time when me and my brother-in-law riding side by side and both hit a pig running across the road at dusk, wild ride but we didn't hit the dirt, not so much for the under wear though!
toooo many experiences.

 

Man, you got that right.

Just last week a friend's son was partially T-Boned - not a full-on broadside, thank God - in his car by another car doing 50 MPH that ran a red light. He's OK - mostly just shaken up - but had he moved on his green light just a split second sooner ...

The jerk that hit him had a kid in the car and was speeding because he running late getting the kid to school. After bouncing off my friend's son's car, they slammed into a pickup truck and overturned.

Both the speeding parent and his kid were then sped away in an ambulance.

Brilliant.

 

All that I’ll add is strobing hi-low on the headlight approaching a stale green.

 

Especially with a car waiting to turn left.
I just installed a jumper wire device thing to allow the spot lights to stay on when you flash the hi beam.
Can't just do that continuously in the heavy traffic around here, but sometimes.
But I always have the spots on - whether that's legal or not or inconsiderate I don't care.

 

I also wired my spots (passing lights) to stay on with hi beam. Everything I read said it was legal in Canada. I don't understand why they should be off with hi beams on anyway.

 

The flashing of high beam means different things to different people. Over here it's generally done to signal "after you".

The CAN bus bikes are programmable for what should happen with the lighting I believe.

 

After you?
It's not so polite around here.
No one here would ever get or think that.
Specifically It means attention ******** put your phone down and turn your high beams off or attention ******** put your phone down and see me.
But very specifically the one I usually use it for is attention ******** put your phone down and try not to turn left in front of me.
Similarly turning your lights off and back on quickly means attentiont ******** put your phone down and turn your lights on.
So unspecifically it generally means attention ******** put your phone down and pay attention.