Originally Posted by
Old Steve
Take care out there, don't relax and always have your Plan B.
I think you carried out your plan B subconciously as a lot of experienced riders would have. You recall a great level of detail so that shows your mind was active and recording hazards.
Its a good practise to be wargaming in your mind various scenarious when you have the spare mental space and time to do it.
You did the best thing of all and that was to immediately reduce your impact velocity otherwise known as speed. I had a remarkeably similar incident about 200m after leaving my driveway. Cold tyres and cold brakes, old lady pulled out in front of me and stopped halfway across lane. I had the back wheel off the ground and landed sideways upright and inches from bumper like you. Bizarrely a family memeber was behind the old lady in the que also and witnessed!
When its this close I'm not sure if you could accelarete past in time, your instincts chose to brake and they were evidently right.
You should be able to stop in a bike length for each 10km/h of speed so at 40ish thats 8m, the car is 2m wide, big gamble to try and get past instead of low speed impact.
But well done.
Govt gives you nothing because it creates nothing - Javier Milei
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