They just do not see us.
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They just do not see us.
Riding today in small town traffic after work keeping a safe distance between myself and vehicle in front and travelling in right lane of a 5 lane road about 200 feet from where I planned to turn right. Dipstick in his 4x4 extended cab truck waiting on sidestreet on the right suddenly punches it to pull out and follow the vehicle in front of me. Never even sees me and if I was not anticipating it he would have took me out as he decided to pull out as I was even with the front of his truck. I just flipped the bike to the left next to the car in the other lane and slowed down and hit the horn! He gets to a right turn and I can either go straight ahead or turn behind him, I turn behind him and the first chance he gets he pulls into a side street so I follow. He stops and is rolling down his window and he is looking at me. Now my intention was to be polite and just ask him to be aware and look out for motorcycles. When I pull next to him he is apologising to me and says he is really sorry he did not see me. He seemed sincere so I just said keep an eye out for us and left. I ride a Cop Bike still black and white, I have 55 watt bulbs in the passing lamps and yellow film on them so they really stand out and they are always on in any kind of traffic and a Phase 7 that was on Hi beam. If any bike is lit up and visible it is this one but still at that time I was invisible. I suppose it is a good thing that when I get on my Bike I imagine I am Snoopy flying his Sopwith Camel into unfriendly skies where every single thing is an enemy !!! and I am always doing imaginary abrupt evasive manouvers as I ride and it looks like it paid off again.
Last edited by bigheadted; Mar 5, 2013 at 11:02 PM. Reason: correct spelling
Glad you were ready for him.
You are right..gotta ride like they don't see ya, cause most of the time they don't!
You are right..gotta ride like they don't see ya, cause most of the time they don't!
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I agree they don't see us but as many cage on cage crashes there are 1: they don't look 2: they are destracted with some other activity. I have had two cars look right at me and did not care. They changed lanes right into me. The wife was on the back both times so made evasive moves they took their turns and they were gone.
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Glad you predicted and are OK. They are all trying to kill us. I tell myself that every time I ride.
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that's why you absolutely must pay attention to the space around you, much more so while riding a bike. with a car, you might get a fender bender, but on a bike you could easily end up dead. establish and maintain that space around you.
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You were doing everything right and he STILL tried to kill you. I love American numb-to-the-world drivers. My best rule is to watch the head. When a cage driver's head starts bobbing around, they are about to do something stupid, potentially to me. I quit commuting in the city, especially in the mornings, just too dangerous.
