Biker down threads - merged from another thread

[Mystic13]

Well, in rather more than 40 years, I remember only half a dozen. But about 4 of those are in the last couple of years!

How on earth does a bike manage to head on into another bike on a public road?

Coming up to corners bikes will pass assuming they can make it even if a car comes around the corner.

I haven't spoken to a rider yet who factors in "what if a bike comes around the corner". I mentioned this a few weeks back and had my first instance of it a week later. Plenty of room to make pass of a car and boat. Move out and accelerate then hard on the brakes and pull in again. F%$# bikes are fast when they come around corners. All four of us had plenty of time to deal with it (me and 3 of them) because I don't go overboard on the room I allow but what a stark reminder.

I often see bikes passing between cars and a double yellow going over a rise. They assume they will have room if a car comes the other way. I guess they don't factor in a bike doing the same thing coming the other way. Seems to me you'll get two bikes clipping each other at 200 kph and being surrounded by cars.

So tell me... you're about to make a pass before a bend. Plenty of room to complete the pass even if a car comes round the corner. Do you ever factor in it being a bike at warp 9?

[Mystic13]

There's none so blind as those that cannot see.

And yet you can't see what many have said to you right through this thread.

A blind man would have better vision than you.

Clearly you're not someone to let clear thought and reasoned discussions
get in the way of your thinking.

Please pass my sympathies onto those who have to deal with you on a daily basis. My thoughts go out to them... yes I know they could potentially be paedophiles but....

Based on your comments I wonder if I should send my kids to school tomorrow just in case the teachers are paedophiles.

Dude you crack me up. You'd make a great Cyclops.

[denill]

So don't express your condolences. Doesn't make a bunch of sense to me either so I don't typically post in RIP threads.

If others want to, whatever. And isn't it partly a way of saying "thank fuck that wasn't me"?

Yeah, hadn't thought about it, but I reckon you've summed me up there also.

[MIXONE]

Do you read what you post, young biker, or just plug the keyboard into your brain and let it all flow out?

I was thinking another part of his anatomy actually.

Remember though to be old and wise first you must be young and stupid!

[Squiggles]

I often see bikes passing between cars and a double yellow going over a rise. They assume they will have room if a car comes the other way. I guess they don't factor in a bike doing the same thing coming the other way. Seems to me you'll get two bikes clipping each other at 200 kph and being surrounded by cars.

And unlike a car, you can never predict where in the lane the bike will be. If people stuck to the 100m of clear after a pass is complete idea, we'd all be safer