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Originally Posted by Wild Dog
Here is pretty much the same thing, but there is another added factor... Some motorcycle rider think that they are immortal and end up doing stupid things like trying like this.
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They can´t go to the left to pass the bus for some reason, so they have the smart idea to do what i show in the image above....
Sometimes they fail and end up stuck between two buses.
I'm trying to convince a friend to get a motorcycle, but he has seen so many of those smart riders get kill, that he is afraid....
We don't know what the other drivers will do, but we can ride on the defense and be careful
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People that ride like that are known as Darwin Award contestants, and there is no helping people that have poor decision making skills or no common sense.
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Originally Posted by wedooit
Muscle memory and awareness is what we teach in firearms instruction....interesting that concept applies to bike riding as well! Thanks for the tips!
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Those two things are kind of a mainstay in any safety or control related scenario. The same goes for familiarity. A person familiar with their weapon will be more effective than someone who is not, just like a person who is familiar with their bike. I am intimately familiar with the weight, balance, and recoil of my Browning .308 X-bolt, so I will always be more accurate with it than I will with any other random rifle I just pick up, especially past 500 yards.