Nana
Personally I try to take corners so that I could stop on half the available distance.
Even if the person coming the other way does not do the same this is usually good enough to initiate evasive or at least damage reducing accidents.
Not every accident is avoidable, but it is your responsibility to either avoid or mitigate as much harm as possible.
If that is not your view you should not be operating heavy machinery or using the road.
Stupid phone / Tapatalk, apologies in advance.
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Why would I give up? I'm not the one having accidents since I actually bother to read the 'signs'. The sign there is, a vehicle on the wrong side of the road coming towards you. Standard defensive riding practice is to be able to stop within the distance you can see, while an oncoming car of course eats into that distance, there would still be plenty of time to react and have a slow speed biff into the ditch as the worst case; which is a far better worst case than riding straight into a head-on without applying brakes at all as you seem to think is the only option there; comparing those two options I would say, perhaps it is best you give up riding.Originally Posted by cassina
"A shark on whiskey is mighty risky, but a shark on beer is a beer engineer" - Tad Ghostal
Forum whore
Madness would come a close 2nd.You are about the thickest cunt (or one of the best trolls) to have ever graced this forum that is Kiwi Biker. Please keep it up, it is a great source of entertainment.
Trumpydom!
Hardcore Biker
Suggest you attend an ACC subsidised rider training programme in your area, you will probably get more out of it
if you open your ears and shut your mouth.
You have been riding 38 yrs, fuck, buy a lotto ticket too!
Political Correctness, the chief weapon of whiney arse bastards
Nana
I was hit in spite of being in the left hand wheel track fully within my lane. Because my left arm got struck. Pinwheeling the bike. I was completely in my lane, but looking at it in retrospect if I had been 6 inches to the right she could not have clipped my arm without hitting the row of cars waiting at the lights.
As to signs you might get in advance ( I have):
Farm vehicles - often have someone passing them in blind corners.
Approaching sirens - don't always stay on their side if the road.
Screeching tyres - a reason I am not fond of loud bikes.
Approaching helicopters - in the case I am thinking if it was the eagle helicopter with its million power search light. I pulled over knowing something was up but not what. Sedan with no lights came round the corner at a great rate o knots.
A vehicle moving particularly fast - often followed by another.
Etc.
Stupid phone / Tapatalk, apologies in advance.
Nana
Again not all accidents are avoidable by both parties but you do have to do your bit.
Stupid phone / Tapatalk, apologies in advance.
Nana
Ps. I was 2 in 76. So I was not riding defensively then.
Stupid phone / Tapatalk, apologies in advance.
Forum whore
There are NO accidents that aren't your own fault. They're all avoidable. They're usually the result of arrogance, ego, or ignorance, or a combination of all three.
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
Nana
The job exceeding the tools in the kit.
Not enough tools? Get more.
Stupid phone / Tapatalk, apologies in advance.
Forum whore
I suggest the IAMS course...
Forum whore
Sounds like poor observation to me.
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
Forum whore
Too crunchy.
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
Forum whore
Hypothetical situations filled with variables only known to you are called: A Set Up.
I was referring to your observational skills. Those are the only ones you can control.
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
Hardcore Biker
Ive been riding since 1971 and am still learning, they say to give up when you stop learning.
Training programmes dont offer full protection but they do improve your odds if your mind is open to learning.
Nothing offers fool protection which you seem to require.
Political Correctness, the chief weapon of whiney arse bastards
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Well, it would be fucking difficult to be a worse one than I think you areIn fact most people who use time/age etc to show how good they are, tend to be the most set in their ways, and hearing of all the accidents you've had, your ways are shit.
We don't claim that it will work at all times, the post you just quoted clearly shows that. However, riding like it will is the best way to maximise the chances that it willArrogance goes both ways, like it is arrogant to say there is nothing more you could have done to avoid an accident, in that arrogance is characterised by an unwillingness to learn. I'd prefer the 'arrogance' that lets me avoid accidents, and I'm sure fido would prefer me to ride that way too.
"A shark on whiskey is mighty risky, but a shark on beer is a beer engineer" - Tad Ghostal
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