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That was a pucker vid.
target fixation; he could have, should have, missed that truck
Strange bouncy front end... Could it have been a flat front tire? Made my stomach turn...
Because of Deer, Bear, skunks, dogs, cows, Prius's stopped for no reason, SUVs, Pickups, bicycle packs, downed trees, gravel, rocks, boulders, sand! and all sorts of other dammed things that you can't see because the roads are narrow, twisty with a lot of ups and downs.
Not so much for me. A "Pucker Vid" would be from a Go Pro of someone at reasonable speed paying attention, and a deer jumps out. THAT could happen to me. THIS isn't going to happen to me, just like I'm not going to die of AIDS. I just choose not to engage in the behavior that causes it.Lannis
II reasoned that I must be able to bring my machine to a full stop from whatever condition of speed and bank angle and acceleration it might be in within the road that I could see. I realized that there could be sand and rocks and Buicks and critters and people in the road ahead.
The way you worded that describes very much the way I feel about riding where I live, except it's more likely to be a tractor with a wagon load of tobacco, or a cow that wandered out of his pasture, or two cars stopped in the middle of the road, with drivers' windows aligned, the drivers just shooting the breeze.
I ride conservatively as well. I got all my dumb years out of the way on dirt bikes. You can watch a video of a guy bullfighting getting gored by a bull (just an example) and it might make you pucker a bit. There's no implication that you're a bullfighter yourself just because you experience a reaction. You've never flinched during an action movie involving a situation you'd never find yourself in?It seems like you're implying anyone who has a reaction to that vid other than stoic "I feel nothing because I would never do that" must ride like the guy in the video. That's quite a silly assumption. Am I missing somthing here?