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sorry fellas , not sure what the rider could have done differently . If one sits still after the light turns green , there is a high chance of being rear ended , or at least yelled at . Dusty
Dusty posted: "I seldom deal with true urban traffic , it can be a bit overwhelming".Me too. However, my brother, who has been riding as long as I have, rides to work, about 40 miles round trip, in Tampa traffic on his TW200 or his Majestic Yamaha scooter. When I visit I find it very hard to keep up. To me, it appears he has no regard for traffic or his own safety. He is 72 and to this day has not hit or been hit by a cage. Last month, when returning from work, around 0200, he got tangled up in some new construction and crashed. He wasn't moving very fast at the time so no injury but the LEO impounded his scooter and made, according to my brother, go to the hospital. He was given a ticket for reckless operation. Needless to say he is pissed. Only cost him $25.00 to get his scooter back. He think nothing of splitting lanes, will jump up on the sidewalk to get around traffic you name it. I don't think there is a stop sign in Tampa that he hasn't run. Now if that's not a communication of street smarts and luck then I have no idea what is ;-T :BEER:Matt
Lucky, indeed! He sounds like a real sits-on-brains.
In the motorcycle game you always have to be more aware than the people around you and defensive at all times. People don't look for you and even scarier, many may see you, but not care. Lots of folks say that accidents are always avoidable and I think being careful all the time and being defensive and aware the risk can be reduced significantly... I also believe in the "red Zone" where an accident becomes unavoidable. When I was 18 (I know the first reply will be "young rider, no experience, gets in accident" but hear me out), I got into my first, and (knock wood) only accident. I was making a left had turn onto a well traveled city street. I had made the left turn and coming in my direction was a Chevy El Camino in the left turn lane. I had a suspicion that he would try to cut me off to make his left turn. I decided to cheat right in the lane and slow down to give me more room in case he tried. He started to turn, thought better of it and stopped. I held my lane position, thinking the scary part was over with and just like that, he floored it blocking the whole lane and I hit him in the passenger door. This is a situation I anticipated, compensated for and could have avoided if he would have done the stupid thing I assessed. Instead It escalated into a spot where it was unavoidable. In the video posted the car was definitely at fault (just like my accident) but the difference is, in my opinion, that the rider was not in the red zone where the accident was entirely unavoidable. Not passing blame or criticizing, but to achieve excellence we need to be critical of ourselves and work to be the best always, especially when it comes to safe riding.