*Video* Avoided two cagers
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*Video* Avoided two cagers
Here is a short video of me doing some defensive driving in Killeen, TX last month. I apologize for the editing and sound quality, I am still trying to decide if I want to post videos or not. It's amazing how people don't see bikes and just try to just merge over on top of us. I don't have a mic for vlogging and I used a FreedConn R1 Pro to record the video.
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at the start of the video the grey car made a lane change in front of you then you moved into his blind-spot by moving over a lane as well. You then accelerated staying in his blind spot. Not saying the car was in the right, but, decelerating and getting behind that car from the get go may have made more sense then trying to pass it.
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at the start of the video the grey car made a lane change in front of you then you moved into his blind-spot by moving over a lane as well. You then accelerated staying in his blind spot. Not saying the car was in the right, but, decelerating and getting behind that car from the get go may have made more sense then trying to pass it.
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It's like watching the idiots lane splitting at 40mph over the speed limit. When a car changes lanes in front of them they all act like the cager guy is at fault. "Dumbass pulled out and almost killed me!" No Dumbass, you almost killed yourself for being a Dumbass! 
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Yeah, but really nothing like that. I think it all happened at 35MPH (5MPH under the speed limit), and I wasn't driving crazy. Before the video started, I cleared the lane I moved into before moving into it to avoid her to gauge my surroundings. She could have cleared the lane before moving into it to. I wasn't lane splitting and I tried to make eye contact with her in the mirror. I didn't accelerate, she was actually coasting into my lane, I maintained speed and moved over. Hindsight is 20/20 and I could have decelerated, but I wasn't sure of the traffic behind me as people in Texas generally take off from green lights and we were already under the speed limit.
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at the start of the video the grey car made a lane change in front of you then you moved into his blind-spot by moving over a lane as well. You then accelerated staying in his blind spot. Not saying the car was in the right, but, decelerating and getting behind that car from the get go may have made more sense then trying to pass it.
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Even with poorly adjusted mirrors, it just takes looking most of the time, which people don't bother with usually.
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Defensive Driving…….will save you some skin in most situations. Practice that regularly and live to tell stories that don’t involve pain, aggravation and misery or go out and test yourself against a distracted idiot in a cage and tell us all about how they did you wrong by being a distracted idiot in a cage…..while you watch and film
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Here is a short video of me doing some defensive driving in Killeen, TX last month. I apologize for the editing and sound quality, I am still trying to decide if I want to post videos or not. It's amazing how people don't see bikes and just try to just merge over on top of us. I don't have a mic for vlogging and I used a FreedConn R1 Pro to record the video.
https://youtu.be/XRpLyICEgcQ
https://youtu.be/XRpLyICEgcQ
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tell that to the engineers at Honda. Seems to be quite a few Wing riders on HDF:
Honda Blind-Spot Protection Radar- camera-based intervention to help protect riders from other road users....Rather than warning you about vehicles in your blind spot, it intervenes when youre riding in the danger zone where another driver cant see you.
https://www.cycleworld.com/story/mot...mation-system/
Honda Blind-Spot Protection Radar- camera-based intervention to help protect riders from other road users....Rather than warning you about vehicles in your blind spot, it intervenes when youre riding in the danger zone where another driver cant see you.
https://www.cycleworld.com/story/mot...mation-system/