Motorcycle Traffic Safety 1 - How To Avoid Traffic Circle Accidents! 💥
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Motorcycle safety tip of the day: A car almost runs me off the road because the driver is simply not paying attention. I break it down, step-by-step, and show how simple awareness kept me from getting injured.
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Perfect analysis of what happened.
New to your channel, I'll watch and like all of your videos.
You own just the bike I'd like to buy.
Well, honestly, I'm still a bit divided between the Meteor and the Himalayan, but the first one is gaining points.
Thanks for the kind words! 💙🙏🏼 Ya, I love this little bike. Let me know which direction you eventually go!
BRB, I like your attitude. Have a great day.
Thanks! Cheers!
The only thing I'd do different is brake instead of speeding up to get beside her. Anyone in a traffic circle or similar is going to eventually want to exit right. Nobody signals much as it is a road pattern that uses school of fish concepts by design. A rolling 4way stop of flow and evasion.
Riding in anyone's 5 or 7 o'clock is bad news, but climbing to their 3oclock or 2 is where you can get knocked down or smashed under tires. I typically let them get ahead, expecting they will suddenly go right.
A lot of people still have trouble with merging and off ramps. We've been at this since the 1950s and even interstate on ramps are still a mystery to some.
Situational awareness is absolutely a must when riding on two wheels! It's staggering, the number of people that DO NOT look, use their signals and drive exceedingly faster than posted limits everyday! Good job! 🤙🏽
You have described a common scenario that takes place people changing lanes without (A) looking in their blind spot and (B) giving their turn signal. Happens to car drivers (at the receiving end), so motorcycle riders are at that much more at risk due to their smaller "footprint" on the road.
Your manners on the road were impeccable. KUDOs for the civility and mindfulness you showed at the traffic light. Always appreciate that with fellow drivers and riders on the road these crazy days....Thank you for leading by example. 👏👏👌
Thanks for your kind words.
Yes, not only do I like being polite to other drivers, I feel like I have a responsibility to be so while I'm on a motorcycle. I'm working to dispel the preconceived attitude that people generally seem to have toward bikers. I'm personally on a black bike, I'm typically wearing mostly black, my helmet has a tinted visor most of the time, so people see this faceless "man in black" on a motorcycle. I feel like people look at me like I'm a "bad guy" character out of a movie or something. When I let people pull in front of me, or stop and let them cross the street, they react in a surprised way. I like that. I feel like I'm communicating with these people, letting them know I'm a human being just like them.
Thanks for watching and for leaving your thoughts! 💙🙏🏼
Nice one Chuck. Here in the UK it's getting super defensive so when someone does something so obviously wrong they're all pumped up ready to "have a go" verbally rather than just say, "Hey, I'm sorry" like the lady in your video. Occasionally though it does happen. But it's so rare I feel like getting off my bike and going to hug or high-five them 🤗😂😂.
Traffic circles - or roundabouts over here are very common. In fact our local government seems to drop them in almost every vacant space irrespective of them being appropriate - or needed. There's a famous one in Swindon - affectionately (embarrassingly) known as the "Magic Roundabout". Basically it's a traffic island with five other, smaller roundabouts circumnavigating it. It's carnage at rush hour as you might image. Town planning gone mad 😂
Yes, I always have my head on a swivel and assume everyone is trying to kill me, and no one sees me. Also I only ride when I'm rested, alert and feel like my head is in the right place. Never start out a ride sad, mad or upset.
Great standards, man. I love it. My wife and I (me on my bike and her on hers) do a mantra every time we seat up, "I'm awake, aware and alert. I may SEE an accident, but I won't be INVOLVED in one." 💙 🙏🏼
@@BackRoadBikerChuck I love that you do that! I love that you ride with your wife! SpaceXcentric shows his wife on occasion but she has no name, just the title, Lawyer Wife. Also Saddlebags73 (see his, Why I Ride in my Fav Vid's playlist) on rare occasion we get a glimpse of, Mrs Saddlebags. Oh, he and I joke around a lot, if you do watch, Why I Ride, join in the fun and comment, Me And My Royal Enfield forced me to watch this :-))
Thanks for sharing - I love your attitude and temperament riding-cool head and strong horn and a positive attitude that brings out best in others.
Hey, thanks! I was a traffic reporter for a few years on the radio and on TV. I used to fly a couple hundred feet above rush hour traffic and watch people literally literally get killed doing the simplest things. I have such a healthy respect for communication between drivers, whether that's turn signals, or eye contact, or waving someone else forward at a 4-way stop sign. So important. Thanks again for watching!💙🙏🏼
@@BackRoadBikerChuck your experience has paid off in spades!
I've never seen an analysis like this. Remarkable - and, I have to say, very charitable. After 50 years of riding (and driving) , and of seeing incredibly unskilled and selfish drivers who won't even use their damn turn signals because, uh, "liberty," I struggle to find the justice in following a craphead like that lady for miles so that she has the opportunity to "apologize" (after doing her cowardly best to elude you). I admire your magnanimity.
In the UK we have to anticipate drivers like this all the time, because you know there are idiots out there that don’t look!😡 In my younger days I rode big cruisers with loud pipes and if that didn’t get there attention my verbal abuse did!!!🤣🤣🤣 I’ve settled down now coming up to 70 so just got to be really careful and anticipate and read the road more 🤷♂️ I’ll be getting that same bike as yours in a couple of weeks and looking forward to a more leisurely way of riding 👌👍 I like the way you talk through your videos, very laid back 👍 stay safe ride safe 👍
In Scotland. I call this a straight about.
A straight about!? Awesome.
So calm & composed !!!
Long time rider here, I use a concept the we could call it the "distracted" bubble. We get used to check on people inside the car, but sometimes you just don't know so.. Depending on the situation, speed/place, always have several feet from the vehicle. Turnabouts second lane turn to the right are a classic so at least 6 feet of bubble. Or when ridding fast but with traffic roads, always a big bubble 20 feet at least from the car in front and awareness of who is back in both lanes, you don't want to be behind a sudden stop, you might react, but the person behind you might not, or you might want to evade to the side but the person in the inner lane comes at high speed. I assume everyone is "distracted", you really learn to drive defensively... but I love it, you really enter in a meditation like state, of complete attention.
PD: great videos, 🤙
Thanks so much. This is all good info.