Visibility, Are You Being Seen?

It's one of the gotcha moments in life where the left turner across the intersection exercises his, well, for lack of a better word... it'll come to me.
Hopefully, it hasn't come to the rest of us, and never does. I never have a problem with it only because I can read minds and put people into a trance.
Speed is in my opinion the common denominator in collisions; not gonna make it much more complicated than that; these bikes are quick, we like to imagine that we're quick, we were never very quick [in comparison]. I've played the drums for fifty years, quick people I can still count on one hand and leave a couple of fingers.
 
Though I'm not letting them off the hook, it may not be the human drivers we have to worry about.

How are the cyber drivers going to react?

 
Uncle Phil said:
Yes, I've had cagers look at me, smile at me, then pull out in front of me ... :eek:
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Yep... and then go fully enraged over you (barely) manage to stop with blaring horns in like 1ft distance of their door... :mad:

But the absolute top still was that one lady who signaled to "keep it down" cause she's on the phone during above situation... pfffff...
 
One safety tip I like to follow is avoiding Commuter times like 6 to 9 am and 3 to 6 pm , I do like my iPhone map for showing were traffic jams are, works pretty good in town. Looking forward to using it on the bike, last years birthday present from the wife was Bluetooth speakers for my new helmet ( my Christmas present) , haven't tried it yet, because had to reglue my heated grips on Lady , but by the time weather improved I was to sick from cancer to ride. Chemo has been successful and I should be healthy enough to ride this spring.
 
65 Parisienne, they had the style, excellent red, scary for me it's 60 years old but I remember when they were new . In 1965 my Dad bought a Plymouth Savoy , what I remember most is the rear view mirror was on the top of the windshield not on the dashboard. Had to duck in the old car any time Dad looked at the mirror.
 
Chris09 said:
It's one of the gotcha moments in life where the left turner across the intersection exercises his, well, for lack of a better word... it'll come to me.
Hopefully, it hasn't come to the rest of us, and never does. I never have a problem with it only because I can read minds and put people into a trance.
Speed is in my opinion the common denominator in collisions; not gonna make it much more complicated than that; these bikes are quick, we like to imagine that we're quick, we were never very quick [in comparison]. I've played the drums for fifty years, quick people I can still count on one hand and leave a couple of fingers.
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A friend of mine got hit in one of those stupid left turn accidents a couple of years ago. Still goes for physio. Again guy just said never saw you on your big harley.
 
3 times on today's ride I did the weave, and flashed my brights to make sure drivers didn't pull out in front of me. Two of them even waved as I went passed acknowledging that they had seen me.
 
3 times on today's ride I did the weave, and flashed my brights to make sure drivers didn't pull out in front of me. Two of them even waved as I went passed acknowledging that they had seen me.
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There are certainly times when one has to flash lights, blow horns, and do everything else that we can to get another driver's attention. At the same time I have questioned if flashing the lights is a good idea or not when it is intended only as a preemptive warning to other drivers when the danger is not yet imminent. It is not always certain what meaning the other person will glean from flashing headlights. Often car and truck drivers will flash their lights to signal to other drivers to go ahead and pull out, turn, change lanes, etc., to signal that they are yielding the road pace to them. I would hate to know that someone pulled out in front of me because I flashed my lights and they thought that I was being nice and letting them go ahead. I wonder if because it isn't universally used and understood exclusively as a warning to not proceed every time that it is used if there is the danger of other drivers misinterpreting the signal and doing the opposite of what is in my best interest.
 
I think we can ...well, overthink this and get totally paranoid. I just ride in a position on the road that makes me most visible to the place where other drivers are most likely to be coming from. It changes constantly. I change constantly.

At a certain point, my focus is no longer on that vehicle and driver, but I've moved on to the next potential hazard on the road. Becoming fixated on anything, even a driver about to turn possibly in front of you, means you're not looking at something else.

(P.S. Did you guys notice the inadvertent pun in the first line? I thought that was pretty good. :D )

Chris
 
With regard to we motorcyclists "being seen"........ Just wondering.... "driverless" vehicles, on cruise and adaptive cruise etc..where person in command seat apparently must monitor vehicle.... Many cases...no human inside the vehicle. Anyway.....any thoughts?

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Advanced Driver Assistance: Still Not Seeing Motorcycles - Adventure Rider

Every car with advanced driving assistance systems doesn't "see" motorcycles as it should. And that puts us all in danger.
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