Originally Posted by
cassina
No I do not need a lesson from a riding school because in a situation where another party is at fault it is them and not you that controls the speed and distance they are from you when they screw up and it comes down to luck as to whether they give you any time to avoid them or not.
If there is to be a crash it will be the result of the actions of everybody involved. You can't control anyone else's actions, you can only control your own, but you can allow for the actions of others. Most times that won't involve speeding up.
Only somewhat relevant, but I was riding my AJS to work one day in bumper to bumper traffic. The face of a guy standing at a bus stop lit up in recognition at a driver of one of the cars. I hit the brakes and pulled in to the curb. If nothing had happened I might have looked a bit silly, but the driver who recognised the guy in the bus stop jammed his brakes on and there was a multiple car pile up beside where I was sitting. But for my reaction I would have been in the middle of that.
I could have ignored the "at fault" parties, but the fact that I didn't may have contributed to the fact that I didn't spend the last 57 years in a wheel chair.
There is a grey blur, and a green blur. I try to stay on the grey one. - Joey Dunlop
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