Originally Posted by
onearmedbandit
My point remains, I don't think adopting the mentality of 'everyone is out to kill you' is the right mentality.
I've always read that there are better ways of looking after yourself than that. If you aren't aware of the others though that's certainly better than nothing. When I was riding a moped to work it was common for people ot pull out in front of me while looking directly at me. It would be entirely possible to believe they were out to get you.
One of the alternative approaches is to keep clear space around you. If nothing comes into that space nothing can hit you. I can't recall the suggested distance - it was a long time ago, maybe a metre and a half or 2m? If the guy doing the filtering was using that approach he would not have had a problem.
Another approach is to watch for anything unusual. Most of the traffic will flow normally and unless you do something silly there is minimal danger. Anybody doing anything different should set off alarm bells.
I might have a look in my library tomorrow and see what I can find?
There is a grey blur, and a green blur. I try to stay on the grey one. - Joey Dunlop
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