Pushing your luck?

[Dadpole]

Picture this scenario.
You are heading down the 'takas in bumper to bumper traffic taking overtaking opportunities as they arise. Going into a 30 km left hand hairpin the car in front cuts the corner leaving a 1.5 metre gap to the centre line. heading the other way is a line of cars led by a wild-eyed loonie in a 4x4 van.
Would you overtake and hope the car in front kept hugging the left instead of following a normal line that would push you over the centreline?
Damned if I would, but I saw a sprotbike do that at 11.00 am Sunday. He made it, but I was watching my mirror expecting to see it all ending in tears.
Brave, lucky or both?

BTW: It was near where the truck flattened the car an hour later.

[Back Fire]

passing in the corner? lucky and idiot IMO

[Gremlin]

Would you overtake and hope the car in front kept hugging the left instead of following a normal line that would push you over the centreline?
there's the crux right there... you're only going to succeed on the HOPE that some complete stranger does continues to do something.. :gob:

That said, things can look very different from a different angle or perspective, and also relates to rider experience (not an excuse, but perhaps perception of danger, space, difficulty etc)

[rwh]

He made it, but I was watching my mirror expecting to see it all ending in tears.
Brave, lucky or both?

Lucky, I'd say. I wouldn't dare spend that much time looking in my mirrors on the takas.

Richard

[skelstar]

I do. But then I would have watched the driver to it on a couple of corners first to judge whether hes moving over for me or not.

[BarBender]

there's the crux right there... you're only going to succeed on the HOPE that some complete stranger does continues to do something.. :gob:

"Assumption is the mother of all farkups."*

*Quote from Under Seige 2 - Dark Territory (1995) Dir: Geoff Murphy

[shafty]

Dickhead, IMHO. Surviving to my age and havin ridden for 31 years, and still not a GREAT rider, I practice Risk Minimisation, and still have a ball :scooter:

[gamgee]

have a ball :scooter:

just one then?

[MidnightMike]

Lucky, and stupid.

[Dadpole]

Lucky, and stupid.

And we have all been there before. :innocent:

[Shadows]

Too much risk of the oncoming cars cutting across your lane. I can't be the only one who sees that all the time on left hand bends, surely?
Joe Average Cager will nearly always assume that if he is entering a right hander, any oncoming cars will be hugging the left side of the road, giving him heaps of room to use some of the wrong lane. Half the time he'll use it too, and Joe Average Cager doesn't care about bikes either.
I'd wait until there were no oncoming vehicles or I was no longer in a corner.

[Trudes]

I've noticed that often people in cages will actually see a motorbike, and I guess they assume cause we are not car size we don't need a s much road as a car, so will then cut in the corner. Little do most of these mouth breathers know that we need to use the whole side of the road. Probably a "if we hit a bike in our Pajero, we won't be hurt" mentality too. Fuckers. Don't trust anyone!