How do you react after being cut off?

[hayd3n]

There's no such thing as a blind spot. It's a too fucking lazy to look properly spot.

that too

[CookMySock]

Try it on a Big Twin, they'll probably spill their Latte

Haha fuck yeah. If they even try it on to begin with.... Loud vtwin = "dont try it on with me sonny boy!"

Quite likely a loud inline four will have similar results. I ride around town in a low gear with about oooooo 5,000rpm on, simultaneously adjusting the loud handle for maximum casualty - works damn fine! Oddly, the pigs have no interest in me which is not what I had thought would happen. I did loudly crackle into a breathlyser checkpoint one day, and the poor stunned mullet with the machine was so intimidated I had to (angrily of course!) instruct him on how to use it, and then I loudly belted off well in excess of the speed limit.

But nah I don't get annoyed with traffic. I just slay them.

[schrodingers cat]

Yes but you know the game paper sissor rock?
In this case it is Car, Bike. And guess what? The bike gets to lose EVERY time.

Scarely a chop up in my book, just normal road behaviour. Since we all ride in the real world and not of on the candy floss roads of utopia I suggest an attitude adjustment. If you expect this stuff to happen it is no surprise and you don't get hurt.

XXX

[oneofsix]

First one you were rather left in your lane to see clearly but it appears there is a flash of amber from the tessa's indicator, in which case you were trying to beat the Altessa to the gap and lost. Even if this wasn't the case the sudden lane change from the Altessa was a risk even if you had been a car, their lane had stopped and there was a gap in yours. Not nice but sadly normal in NZ.

Second one the Altessa had just been cut off by the other car and there was a car in your lane, the reason the other driver cut the Altessa off, so there was always the risk the Altessa driver would not be thinking bike and would change into that lane as soon as they were past the car. Bitch they didn't indicate but suspect this was a reaction to the other car cutting them off - two wrongs make a mess, like your reaction in the first video (been there done that ).

Both normal driving, take a deep breath, thank your lucky stars they didn't hit you, learn from it and let it go before it negatively affects your riding, as per the first video.

[Luckylegs]

...you were stopping before the car moved in the second one. Perhaps if you'd just kept going youd have been long gone before he changed lanes. Like others have said, these arent really true "cut offs". Fwiw though, since you didnt actually ask us to critique your performance, but rather give an indicationof our reaction, ill usually just yell and swear ( usually into my own helmet) occassionally (very occassionally) theyll get a shake of the head. I reserve engine revving for cyvlists holding me up while splitting

[rastuscat]

Rode up next to a plonker in an XR6 once, after he cut across me on Bealey Ave, Churchur.

Said I "Do you always drive like a dick or is today a special occasion?".

Oddly, no reply.

[Str8 Jacket]

It will most likely happen to you almost everyday. Get used to it and learn to anticipate all drivers moves as they sure as hell aint looking out for us!

[Katman]

The poll results have me strangely gratified.

[oneofsix]

The poll results have me strangely gratified.

Funny that. How did you manage to vote so many times Katman? Guess another demonstration of why not to trust electronic voting.
Seriously; did the OP do well to avoid being a victim?

[marty]

there's no 'shake my head and thank god I was paying attention and move on' choice

[over5tayer]

in the first vid you should of kept to the right hand side of the road you were well oveer to your left(well thats how it looked), and may well have been in his blind spot

I was sitting just slightly left of the car in fronts right wheel. If you noticed - the camera is on a pretty decent lean (didnt spend enough time setting it up straight) - i think this gives the illusion that i'm more left than i really was. Also when the black tezza started changing (no indicator) i veered to the left a bit more thats why i ended up behind her (asian in her early 20's) left wheel.

When i'm travelling in a lane next to cages i always try set myself up so i can see their face in their wing-mirror, and if i have to pass them i accelerate and make it quick (and loud). I agree i might have been sitting ever so slightly to the left of my lane on this occasion, but fact is if she had checked her mirrors even once in the last minute and thought "hmm wonder if that bikes still there before i pull out" - she wouldnt have changed lanes. Lack of awareness on her part.

...you were stopping before the car moved in the second one. Perhaps if you'd just kept going youd have been long gone before he changed lanes. Like others have said, these arent really true "cut offs".

i know how much cars love to dive into that fresh lane thats been all cleared by a parked car so i was already anticipating someone to jump into it. I just wasnt sure which one it was going to be, hence the reduced speed. For all i knew it could have been the car that cut infront the silver tezza wanting to be back in that lane again. I dont think accerating would have been the right answer to that situation.

i know both of these ones that i got on video aren't "true cut-offs" and would not even be classed as close calls (notice how the first youtube vid is named "minor cut off").

[Banditbandit]

30 years or more ago I would have destroyed the wing morror (of the first one - the second doesn't seem that bad.)

Now, I'd just flip the bird ...

It's not worth getting angry about this ... anger ruins your day - but has no effect on the driver, who doesn't give a shit ...

[phill-k]

Reading this post rather than your first one and assuming what you have written about both situations was how you were assessing the situation at the time I'd say your situational awareness is alive and working, however your reaction in the first vid in undertaking the cars could have coped you a ticket.

Problem with traffic like that if you wish to change lanes you need to move fast or some testosterone filled kiwi will deliberately block you, and cage drivers do not expect other traffic (you) to be moving quicker than the flow, so its up to you to keep out the way not assume you have right away. Scaring the crape out of driver could if they turned towards the noise have you knocked off your bike if you are close as you do this. At the end of the day all that does is prove further that bikers are a bad bunch.

I was sitting just slightly left of the car in fronts right wheel. If you noticed - the camera is on a pretty decent lean (didnt spend enough time setting it up straight) - i think this gives the illusion that i'm more left than i really was. Also when the black tezza started changing (no indicator) i veered to the left a bit more thats why i ended up behind her (asian in her early 20's) left wheel.

When i'm travelling in a lane next to cages i always try set myself up so i can see their face in their wing-mirror, and if i have to pass them i accelerate and make it quick (and loud). I agree i might have been sitting ever so slightly to the left of my lane on this occasion, but fact is if she had checked her mirrors even once in the last minute and thought "hmm wonder if that bikes still there before i pull out" - she wouldnt have changed lanes. Lack of awareness on her part.




i know how much cars love to dive into that fresh lane thats been all cleared by a parked car so i was already anticipating someone to jump into it. I just wasnt sure which one it was going to be, hence the reduced speed. For all i knew it could have been the car that cut infront the silver tezza wanting to be back in that lane again. I dont think accerating would have been the right answer to that situation.

i know both of these ones that i got on video aren't "true cut-offs" and would not even be classed as close calls (notice how the first youtube vid is named "minor cut off").

[Luckylegs]

...i know how much cars love to dive into that fresh lane thats been all cleared by a parked car so i was already anticipating someone to jump into it. I just wasnt sure which one it was going to be, hence the reduced speed. For all i knew it could have been the car that cut infront the silver tezza wanting to be back in that lane again. I dont think accerating would have been the right answer to that situation.

i know both of these ones that i got on video aren't "true cut-offs" and would not even be classed as close calls (notice how the first youtube vid is named "minor cut off").

Lets be clear... I said keep going Not accelerate. The way I read it that would have seen you cruise past the altezza while allowing reaction time should the car in front have done it. This is an not uncommon occurence in Glen Eden on my commute home so I appreciate your approach and like phil-k says, it clearly shows you reading a situation and reacting accordingly to keep yourself out of harms way.

[Brett]

Welcome to riding bikes.

I have had the same happen on the motorway, one lane stopped other lanes still flowing around 60kph and someone decides to pull out from stationary lane into my path...had this happen twice. Both times managed to slow down enough to not hit their backsides.

Had similar things happen on most dual lane roads. Fact is, people don't check their blindspots...if they choose to use their mirrors at all. When I was younger and more hot headed I would respond with aggression, now-days, a simple small toot on the horn will suffice. Doesn't usually change the cunts attitudes anyway.

They usually don't comprehend that if it weren't for my quick evasive manouvre or spotting them before the do something stupid, then I could be in hospital or dead and them facing prosecution for driving offences.

One of the things getting on my nerves at the moment is stupid dipshits who think it is ok to stop on a blind corner and do a u-turn. So far, all have been of oriental persuasion. (rather than this being a racial comment, see it as an obvious deficit in their driving knowledge, clearly they don't seem to comprehend outcomes of their actions??)
My favourite approach with these clowns is to break hard on front picks and tap rear brake while the rear wheel has little to no weight on it and lock it up giving a lovely, loud screech and the false appearance of an impending crash. Scares them a bit, hopefully it might one day stop a real nasty accident...