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Man, I know I look for moving traffic on the crossroad before I head across it, and keep an eye on it while I'm crossing. That guy had the video camera on his helmet and it didn't turn from straight ahead once he started moving. He's lucky to be alive.
I agree that I probably wouldn't have been jumping into a city intersection quite that fast myself and MIGHT have been able to avoid that lick.On the other hand, the car blew the red light pretty badly. Everyone else had been long stopped (except the car doing a right-turn-on-red), and the car LOOKED like it was turning into the biker's lane. If you looked at where it stopped, you can't tell where the car was actually going .... Lannis
I wonder if he would of left the light so fast if he hadn't been beside that Guzzi racer ?
Good grief fellas , the crash was the cars fault ??? Yeah , maybe the rider should have been paying more attention , but blaming him absolves the idiot driver . SHEESH :o Dusty
:+1 Sure are a lot of experts here. :BEER:Matt
I wonder if he might have been thinking about the film footage from his goofy camera instead of paying attention to the real matter at hand, like not getting your ass run over?
And some of the experts haven't been hit by a car in 40 years, either. Again, no one is saying that the rider is "at fault". We are saying that the rider, in THIS case, could have avoided being hit by the car that WAS at fault.When I ride with non-Guzzi riders here at home, I'm SHOCKED by the speed at which they navigate city streets and intersections. We'll be going down an urban four-lane together with multiple cross streets. At every intersection, my head is on a swivel. I'm watching the pending left-turning cars, the pending right-turning cars, the cars next to me, my hand is covering the brake, and I slow down if I see the least chance that the top of someone's wheel is in motion toward me. But the guys I'm generally riding with? They're looking straight ahead, sometimes feet on the highway pegs, cruising at a speed that would have them in someone's grill or driver's door if they pulled out. Not a bit defensive. And, by the way. I'm NOT an expert race driver, airplane pilot, mechanical designer, electrical technician, or stonemason. I'm NOT an expert tree-climber, hiker, roofer, sailor, swimmer, runner, or politician. I'm NOT an expert with women, I know nothing about horses, I'm a fair shot, a so-so venison butcher. I'm NOT an expert fisherman, scuba diver, bicyclist, or chemist. I'm no good at law enforcement, publishing, computer technology or salesmanship. I'm NOT an expert botanist, carpenter, welder, potter, balloonist, historian, or author. I can't tan a hide, produce a television show, or sing tenor. I'm NOT an expert weaver, dressmaker, hatter, cobbler, or blacksmith.But I AM, after 44 years and half-a-million miles of riding 25+ motorcycles, an expert street motorcycle rider, if there is such a thing. Not a road racer, not a trials specialist, not an enduro expert but a street rider. And so are some of the other folks on this list. If they're not, then who on God's green earth IS? They're worth listening to when it comes to something like this, and not just dismissed. We can all be hit by an errant driver, jumped on by a deer, slide on spilled diesel or antifreeze, or tagged from behind in an intersection. But we're good at avoiding avoidable "accidents" ....Lannis
When I ride with non-Guzzi riders here at home, I'm SHOCKED by the speed at which they navigate city streets and intersections. We'll be going down an urban four-lane together with multiple cross streets. At every intersection, my head is on a swivel. I'm watching the pending left-turning cars, the pending right-turning cars, the cars next to me, my hand is covering the brake, and I slow down if I see the least chance that the top of someone's wheel is in motion toward me. But the guys I'm generally riding with? They're looking straight ahead, sometimes feet on the highway pegs, cruising at a speed that would have them in someone's grill or driver's door if they pulled out. Not a bit defensive.
I need to concentrate on the road so much that I stopped riding with even expert riders. Solo for me.
I refer all of you experts to this ;) :D :D Dusty
I'm not claiming expert status, but I stand behind my statement that the guy had a helmet camera, and once he started moving, it never deviated from straight ahead until he was hit.
I've been riding over 56 years and in SC we can ride year round and, until recently, I road most every day. That is quit a bit of exposure but I have yet to hit or be hit by a cage. I have no idea why. Were I the rider in the video, I suspect I would have been hit. Other than being in the wrong place at the wrong time, I just don't see what the rider did wrong. Knowledge or in my case "road smarts" is helpful but I believe just plain luck has more to do with it than anything. :BEER:Matt He was hit almost as soon as he started moving.
He was hit almost as soon as he started moving.