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It's very rare for me to see a heavy motorcycle on the road and them not be driving recklessly - speeding, following too closely, or even overtaking between two
by LAC-Tech 4y ago
It's very rare for me to see a heavy motorcycle on the road and them not be driving recklessly - speeding, following too closely, or even overtaking between two vehicles travelling in opposite directions.
I'm not saying car drivers never do this. I'm saying almost every time I encounter a motorcyclist they're driving dangerously. To the point where if I see one who doesn't tailgate me, I'm surprised.
- janef0421 4y agoWhat do you mean by "heavy motorcycle"? Where are you encountering these motorcycles?
- LAC-Tech 4y agoI mean larger displacement motorcycles for the open road. As opposed to smaller displacement motorcycles for commuting. I encounter them on the road outside my house, which attracts a lot of them on sunny days and weekends.
- janef0421 4y agoThat is a very biased sample. Also, my comment was primarily about incidents where another vehicle, typically a car, collides with a motorcycle due to the driver failing to notice the motorcycle. I don't think the factors you're describing here are major drivers of these kinds of collisions.
- aussiesnack 4y agoWell-known roads (often 'twisties') attract riders who want to hoon around. In countries with lax licensing standards, there can be hundreds of testorerone-addled teens riding motorcycles they have no idea how to handle, and (like so many young males) little concern for anyone outside their circle. Not remotely representative of motorcyclists as a whole (in fact it's an ageing demographic).
- LAC-Tech 4y agoI live outside a straight road. What other motorcyclists do you see, other than recreational ones?
- Schroedingersat 4y agoI'd very much rather they do that than behave the same way in a tesla or ford ranger or electric suv. A 250kg motorcycle+rider can kill people in a hatchback or pedestrians, but a 2-4t car or suv definitely will. Plus the motorcycle idiots have a much higher proportion of single vehicle crashes.