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Assume invisibility!
We can bitch about terrible driver till we are blue in the face. We can gripe to authorities and head up awareness campaigns.
But the only thing we have control of is ourselves. Defensive driving has to be elevated to another dimension.
This is not to say our complaints are not founded, they are. But it is our action that makes the difference right now.
Heightened awareness takes years. 360 degree spacial awareness is key. Look into their eyes. SEE THEM SEE YOU. NEVER ASSUME!
If something happens to you and the fault is not yours, look into your heart and find out what is is that you could have done to prevent the situation.
Lights on, turn signals AND arm signal together, horn, head flashing button. MAKE THEM SEE YOU! NEVER ASSUME! TAKE RESPOSIBILITY!
WE ARE INVISIBLE!
We can bitch about terrible driver till we are blue in the face. We can gripe to authorities and head up awareness campaigns.
But the only thing we have control of is ourselves. Defensive driving has to be elevated to another dimension.
This is not to say our complaints are not founded, they are. But it is our action that makes the difference right now.
Heightened awareness takes years. 360 degree spacial awareness is key. Look into their eyes. SEE THEM SEE YOU. NEVER ASSUME!
If something happens to you and the fault is not yours, look into your heart and find out what is is that you could have done to prevent the situation.
Lights on, turn signals AND arm signal together, horn, head flashing button. MAKE THEM SEE YOU! NEVER ASSUME! TAKE RESPOSIBILITY!
WE ARE INVISIBLE!
Fate is there to be defied, `til the last breath!
Seriously though, 2 groups of bike riders seem to be quite "visible", probably for the same reason, that being, if you run one over, a group of his mates will arrive & asking searching questions & offer seriously unwelcome & possibly savage outcome solutions.
Cops & Bikies[1%ers].
Seriously though, 2 groups of bike riders seem to be quite "visible", probably for the same reason, that being, if you run one over, a group of his mates will arrive & asking searching questions & offer seriously unwelcome & possibly savage outcome solutions.
Cops & Bikies[1%ers].
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Mark said:
You are assuming that the driver is responsible. Since you are the one who will lose in any collision, you have to look out for yourself.
No, ya goob, we are not invisable. We simply cannot assume the people see us. EVER!Mark said:
Before you go out, I want you to share that statement with your loved ones.
Do you honw honestly believe that the twit behind you texting isn't going to smear your ass into that pickup in front of you simply because you were paying attention? Thin!
I emigrated to Western Washington State in 1968 after 18 months riding test bikes for N-V and riding generally for the previous 10 years in the UK. I started out on a 150 Vespa (because Mom "didn't like motorbikes") and graduated to a 250cc Ariel Leader (chosen because it didn't look like a motorbike even though it was one). Final ride before getting married and becoming a parent was a 1958 BSA A7. For a short time the BSA had a single-seat sports sidecar on it, but that ended when I was sneaking thorugh traffic with fiancee in the chair. I forgot it was there and ran her into the back of a bus! Low enough speed, didn't even damage the paint!
For about 9 months, I rode the prototype Commandos on endurance testing, then switched over to the AJS Stormer program. I was a dead loss as an M-X rider, so I only rode the Stormers on test.
I took one look at the driving habits of Washingtonians, after we got here, and decided I didn't want my wife to meet a State Trooper at the door. With the demise of the "big barges" (Chevy Impalas, Mercury Colony Parks, etc.) things are a bit better than back then. Unfortunately, at just on the wrong side of 70, I don't think I'm up to the challenge any more.
For about 9 months, I rode the prototype Commandos on endurance testing, then switched over to the AJS Stormer program. I was a dead loss as an M-X rider, so I only rode the Stormers on test.
I took one look at the driving habits of Washingtonians, after we got here, and decided I didn't want my wife to meet a State Trooper at the door. With the demise of the "big barges" (Chevy Impalas, Mercury Colony Parks, etc.) things are a bit better than back then. Unfortunately, at just on the wrong side of 70, I don't think I'm up to the challenge any more.
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J.A.W. , don't go believing a white man's interpretation of the Mayan calendar for the Judean -Christian year of 2012. It meerly means time to abandon the cities and start a new life cycle from scratch in the jungle. 18 trips there under my belt now. As for motorcycles drive defensively assuming they are all out to kill you. Brighter colors and light er' up like a christmas tree helps alot too.
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As life is so short and uncertain and the post has decayed into non-sense that we can always protect our selves by mature behavior so that cycling is a safe predicable past time...
Mathematicians and astronomers have gone through the calander to correct mis-reported time cycles to discover the Mayan date odometer don't actually turn over until 2013 some time. There's a video out with an old Mayan priest in front of one of the big famous ruins saying, Don't worry people have been through this cycle before and nothing much happens, expect that as the solar system swings through the dust lanes leaving the plain of the galaxtic arm there can be 24 to 36 hour of darkness, then the sun comes back out. He said the only mystery is they don't know if its the same sun or not...
Personally I have to agree with the Noble scientists and other well informed researchers that this is the last generation not to widely realize we are in an UN-stoppable extinction event over next hand full or so of human generations.
Any who every life style is fatal just some are more fun with some pure luck.
Lost a horse shoeing tenant last week, shoeing horse in shade- big limb got him.
We'd talked about a famous old horse vet getting kicked in head dead not wearing a helmet...
Mathematicians and astronomers have gone through the calander to correct mis-reported time cycles to discover the Mayan date odometer don't actually turn over until 2013 some time. There's a video out with an old Mayan priest in front of one of the big famous ruins saying, Don't worry people have been through this cycle before and nothing much happens, expect that as the solar system swings through the dust lanes leaving the plain of the galaxtic arm there can be 24 to 36 hour of darkness, then the sun comes back out. He said the only mystery is they don't know if its the same sun or not...
Personally I have to agree with the Noble scientists and other well informed researchers that this is the last generation not to widely realize we are in an UN-stoppable extinction event over next hand full or so of human generations.
Any who every life style is fatal just some are more fun with some pure luck.
Lost a horse shoeing tenant last week, shoeing horse in shade- big limb got him.
We'd talked about a famous old horse vet getting kicked in head dead not wearing a helmet...
What freaks me out are people who do see you but do something crazy anyway. I was walking in a crosswalk yesterday and a young girl looked right at me & kept going. I walked right into her car!! Lucky it did no damage. " I hate people who drive like I do! "
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I am always on look out for cycles just because I love to see any and all of em moving but had a scare last year looking more than once both ways in my car I started to ease out then brake up short as a sports bike crossed by at legal speed, just because a random splash of conditions kept him in a blind spot of my car or other traffic as I creeped to road edge and may have killed him if I was in a rushed mood to just get on down the road with least legal delay. It about shocked the shit out of me and still give me stomach queasy sense and anal spike to review how close fate almost clashed through no fault of anyone. I move head/trunk a bit to shift bind spots and create some parallax shifts of objects not to miss a deer ear above grass or cop lurking under cover.
One event - example of how magical random existence can be was me on SuVee going into climbing sweeper over 85 and about to nail it but felt what was either another leaking tire crisis or just wind gusts, so let off till 75 while I looked at rear .3 sec then as jerking head back to path WHACK, deer bashed its skull apart fracturing R foot as bike rear launched off its trunk just as my head got centered to see tree tops and sky blue before landing still upright. If I'd ignored my safety habit of tire check before hot turns deer would of passed behind unseen, if I'd been behaving legal maturely I'd of Tee-boned its mass by helmet and likely broke neck, for permanent cripple or death like first deer T-boned going 35 mph. That was the hardest event in my life survive - out of mind pain no breathing response or heat beat, just givers>fibrillation not pumping for minutes at a time for almost 30 min. If I gave in and passed out I'd of stopped breathing and froozen with the deer. I've seen brains exposed and body divided so I'm never cavaleer about my butt in a saddle. I almost wish I was still as naive as some here can be. Sometimes, like today I don't feel lucky and athletic spunky enough to face fates so soon after last 3 days of close calls on cars in my lane in blinds or rushing across in slow zones on dirt and grip covered pavement. Thank goodness the drive behind was watching and braked short of me too.
I envy those who don't reflexively ask them selves if this is good day to die before each ride.
One event - example of how magical random existence can be was me on SuVee going into climbing sweeper over 85 and about to nail it but felt what was either another leaking tire crisis or just wind gusts, so let off till 75 while I looked at rear .3 sec then as jerking head back to path WHACK, deer bashed its skull apart fracturing R foot as bike rear launched off its trunk just as my head got centered to see tree tops and sky blue before landing still upright. If I'd ignored my safety habit of tire check before hot turns deer would of passed behind unseen, if I'd been behaving legal maturely I'd of Tee-boned its mass by helmet and likely broke neck, for permanent cripple or death like first deer T-boned going 35 mph. That was the hardest event in my life survive - out of mind pain no breathing response or heat beat, just givers>fibrillation not pumping for minutes at a time for almost 30 min. If I gave in and passed out I'd of stopped breathing and froozen with the deer. I've seen brains exposed and body divided so I'm never cavaleer about my butt in a saddle. I almost wish I was still as naive as some here can be. Sometimes, like today I don't feel lucky and athletic spunky enough to face fates so soon after last 3 days of close calls on cars in my lane in blinds or rushing across in slow zones on dirt and grip covered pavement. Thank goodness the drive behind was watching and braked short of me too.
I envy those who don't reflexively ask them selves if this is good day to die before each ride.
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