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Nicholas Cager.
Posted on 04/07/2011 10:58:19 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
In 2009, 5,474 people were killed on American roads due to distracted driving. Now, April has become National Distracted Driving Awareness Month. The MSF has put together a list of 10 things cagers need to know about driving around motorcycles. I hope you’re not reading this on your iPhone from the driver’s seat.
1. There are many more cars and trucks than motorcycles on the road and some drivers don’t “recognize” motorcyclists. They ignore them, usually unintentionally. Look for motorcycles, especially when checking traffic at an intersection.
2. A motorcyclist may look farther away than he or she is in actuality. It may also be difficult to judge a motorcycle’s speed. When checking traffic to turn at an intersection or into (or out of) a driveway, estimate that a motorcycle is closer than it looks.
3. A motorcycle can be easily hidden in a car’s blind spots or masked by objects or backgrounds outside the car. Thoroughly check traffic, whether you’re changing lanes or turning at intersections.
4. A motorcycle may seem to be moving faster than it really is. Again, don’t immediately rely on your perceptions.
5. Motorcyclists sometimes slow down by downshifting or merely rolling off the throttle, thus not activating the brake light. Don’t tailgate motorcyclists. At intersections, anticipate that motorcyclists may slow down without any visual warning.
6. Turn signals on a motorcycle are not often automatically self-canceling. Some riders, (especially beginners) sometimes forget to turn them off. Try to determine whether a motorcycle’s turn signal is for real. And if you’re driving a car, remember to use your turn signals too. They’re a great communication tool for riders and drivers when used properly.
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Nicholas Cager.
Around here, in the city, that is primarily because the motorcycle is actually going much faster than expected...often by a factor of 2X. Some sort of death wish.
Having been stuck in the parking lot known as the California Interstate on a motorcycle trip out there; I’d feel safer splitting the lanes, albeit at slow and cautious speeds.
If you think oblivious, cell phone talking/texting dingbats are a danger at speed, you ought to see them when traffic is essentially at a stand still and they’re angry agitated and even more oblivious to those around them. All jockeying for a better position.
At least at speed, the biker has some recourse and manuvability. Not so when you’re creeping along at 5mph.
Gradually, other bikers began to follow them or just follow suit.
I don't know if they made it legal just so the law could continue to do it or if some other factor came into play.
Today's riders, and their bikes, are a whole new mind set and I avoid them like a bad cough. But, even so, they're less obnoxious than a herd of spandex clad pedal pushers convinced that they get extra privileges because they're good for the environment.
One rule for riders: Assume other drivers don’t know about and are breaking the 10 rules in the article...
The cost to register a motorcycle is less that the cost of a fishing license in New York State. Yes, you can call it a use tax, but it is negligible compared to the cost to register a passenger car or a pick up truck. I have seen the results of horrendous accidents where the cyclist was flagrantly speeding, yet the “cager” was ticketed. I’m a fairly tolerant guy except when it comes to motorcyclists and bicyclists. Cyclists are arrogant in their use of the highway. sd
That’s why I don’t split lanes. Never have, never will...
Oh really? We're all obnoxious, huh? Nice. BTW, on occassion I DO rev the engine. Why? Because sometimes you can tell the soccer mom on her cell phone driving the SUV behind you or turning at the intersection across you path doesn't even see you. Can't count the number of times I've seen the startled wide-eyed shocked look when they realize they were about to drive right over me. (Actually, not -- I'm prepared to evade in that situation, but doing so would often require an illegal move. But we're all lawbreakers anyway, so maybe I should just do that from now on.)
Loud pipes can save lives. But since we're all obnoxious, I guess that's unnecessary, eh?
Indeed. Although I'd probably spell it as s-t-u-p-i-d, too. Dehydrated rock hard stupid, in fact. Wow.
Those people are dumb azzes first, riders second, IMHO.
If bikers want people to respect them, they should offer respect to others.
Agreed, but it's an uphill battle when people lump all of us riders together...
I love when they are roaring down the freeway switching back and forth between lanes to get ahead of all the cars.
I fear that one of these guys will hit a car and hit my windshield!
Got a pacifier handy for them?
Close to 800,000 miles in the saddle here and still get a kick out these haters! LOL!
Since then, whenever I come up on an intersection where I have the green light, and other cars are waiting, I do a quick, hard weave back and forth in the lane when I get within about 100 ft. of the intersection. Kind of a a "Hey! Look at me!"
Just like there are a lot of jerks in cars, there are a lot of jerks on bikes.
If you want to meet some seriously upstanding biker folk, go to a military funeral where the Patriot Guard Riders are on duty.
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Or something like that. I hate texters in any vehicles. Bike, Car, bicycle, stagecoach... They are all idiots looking to die.
Well you didn’t exactly say “Donorcycle”, but close enough. 8 posts into the thread. We might have a new record.
Go and hide in a hole if you wish, but you won’t live one instant longer. Your fate is fixed. Fear profits a man nothing. —Herger the Joyous
Starting to get a few good days here, hope things are thawing out where you are.
I know, I know!!! Even though some modern rice burners are liquid cooled and have radiators and such, motorcycles didn't for most of the 20th century. They were air-cooled (many still are) and need to keep moving to generate air-flow over the engine. In traffic jams, air-cooled motorcycles could overheat and actually damage the engine. Lane-splitting allowed motorcycles to ease through traffic jams where they had room.
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