A must see for kiwi drivers.

[HTFU]

Had not seen this before. Quite good if it was on Kiwi TV.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl7KoeVIh-k&feature=related

[shafty]

BLOODY HELL, great clip

[Mikkel]

Very good video!

[tri boy]

Accurate too. (baby boomer bussiness men are the pits at road behaviour).

[onearmedbandit]

I have one rule for situations like this. If I haven't made eye contact with the driver I assume they haven't seen me. If we have made eye contact I then assume he still hasn't seen me, and make sure I have the brakes covered (normal riding habit for me) and an escape route worked out. In 17yrs of road riding I've not been hit by a car, had plenty of close calls, by which I mean if I hadn't been alert and taken evasive action I would've been mince meat.

[Edbear]

I have one rule for situations like this. If I haven't made eye contact with the driver I assume they haven't seen me. If we have made eye contact I then assume he still hasn't seen me, and make sure I have the brakes covered (normal riding habit for me) and an escape route worked out. In 17yrs of road riding I've not been hit by a car, had plenty of close calls, by which I mean if I hadn't been alert and taken evasive action I would've been mince meat.

Hear, hear! Well said!

[Warr]

I have one rule for situations like this. If I haven't made eye contact with the driver I assume they haven't seen me. If we have made eye contact I then assume he still hasn't seen me, and make sure I have the brakes covered (normal riding habit for me) and an escape route worked out. In 17yrs of road riding I've not been hit by a car, had plenty of close calls, by which I mean if I hadn't been alert and taken evasive action I would've been mince meat.
You are on the money there onearmedbandit.

Eye contact
Brakes Covered
Escape Route.

Almost worked for me some years back but the vehicle that turned right accross in front of me was a bit long, being a bus. Hit it just behind the rear wheel. Fortunately I had scrubbed off sufficient speed to minimize injury. Thats where emergency stopping practice comes in !

[breakaway]

Emergency braking / stopping practice is VERY important.

I thought I was hot shit till I actually tried it. Ended up locking the rear wheel for several meters.

[Dino]

Great advert, wish it was on Kiwi TV.

[dipshit]

I have one rule for situations like this. If I haven't made eye contact with the driver I assume they haven't seen me. If we have made eye contact I then assume he still hasn't seen me, and make sure I have the brakes covered (normal riding habit for me) and an escape route worked out. In 17yrs of road riding I've not been hit by a car, had plenty of close calls, by which I mean if I hadn't been alert and taken evasive action I would've been mince meat.

Same here. Any vehicle that could be crossing your path needs some attention paid to it.

Just recently a car was waiting to turn onto the road I was travelling along on (70km/h zone) and I could see he hadn't seen me yet. And sure enough he started to pull out as I was almost right on top of him. I had already begun to slow and was covering the brakes, so about one second of heavy braking had brought me almost to a complete stop - at which point he then saw me with a look of surprise and shock on his face.

Gave him a wee wave as to say 'well at least one of us was paying attention' and we both went on our way.

[paturoa]

Twin super brights always on high beam - can't hurt!

[dipshit]

Twin super brights always on high beam - can't hurt!

Oh yes it can. It is very annoying to other road users and makes it hard to judge the distance to you. Low beam is sufficient.

[onearmedbandit]

Yip, full beam just fucks other roads users off and it can be very distracting.

[BAD DAD]

That is an excellent clip. Pity we haven't got one for U-turns as well.
Just remember folks that eye contact doesn't necessarily mean that your safe, it just means I've seen you. Doesn't mean that I'm going to give way.

[TOTO]

great vid. thanks.

[paturoa]

Oh yes it can. It is very annoying to other road users and makes it hard to judge the distance to you. Low beam is sufficient.


Yip, full beam just fucks other roads users off and it can be very distracting.

Yes I agree with both of you, and note that I read an underlying implication in your posts that I am more visible which is what the thread is patrtially about.

The other point I'd like to make is, that since I adopted this is that I've not had a single (in front of me) pull out SIDSYM.

So the way I look at it is I've just lowererd the net possibility of an in front of me SIDSYM by doing the high beam thing.