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  • Re: Why you cagers turning left are the most dangerous to we bikers com

    From badgolferman@21:1/5 to corvid on Fri Jan 21 06:54:03 2022
    XPost: rec.motorcycles

    corvid <[email protected]> wrote:

    I'm not confident that you would have seen that fool coming either.

    The biker died after he hit the front end of the cager turning left.
    The two cagers went to the hospital (probably only for the lawsuit).

    The police made a statement that said they were absolutely not chasing him.
    At least they were not chasing him on the ground.
    Obviously there was that helicopter which was tracking him from the air.
    But no indication yet that the biker knew the helicopter was above him.

    Still, the cager turned left in front of him and you saw what happened.

    The most dangerous time for a biker is when a cager coming from the opposite direction turns left in an intersection and this video shows what happens.

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  • From corvid@21:1/5 to badgolferman on Thu Jan 20 22:18:32 2022
    XPost: rec.motorcycles

    On 1/20/22 20:59, badgolferman wrote:
    Why cagers turning left are the most dangerous to bikers https://youtu.be/SwsttyjeJlQ?t=37

    A bike thief. Lane-splitting, emerging from between two cars at very
    high speed just before reaching an intersection.

    I'm not confident that you would have seen that fool coming either.

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  • From corvid@21:1/5 to badgolferman on Fri Jan 21 08:35:14 2022
    XPost: rec.motorcycles

    On 1/20/22 22:54, badgolferman wrote:
    corvid <[email protected]> wrote:

    I'm not confident that you would have seen that fool coming
    either.

    The biker died after he hit the front end of the cager turning left.
    The two cagers went to the hospital (probably only for the lawsuit).

    The police made a statement that said they were absolutely not
    chasing him. At least they were not chasing him on the ground.
    Obviously there was that helicopter which was tracking him from the
    air. But no indication yet that the biker knew the helicopter was
    above him.

    And he was whipping thru city streets at 100mph anyway.

    Still, the cager turned left in front of him and you saw what
    happened.

    I rewound and played the video at 0.5x speed, several times.
    The bike was nowhere in sight when that car began turning, it was far
    back *behind* other cars. Then it shot out at insanely high speed from
    between two cars and into the intersection.

    The bike thief wouldn't have done that stupid move if he could have seen
    the left-turning car ahead. HIS fault that they couldn't see him either.

    The most dangerous time for a biker is when a cager coming from the
    opposite direction turns left in an intersection and this video shows
    what happens.

    OK, but that isn't what I get from this video.

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  • From corvid@21:1/5 to badgolferman on Fri Jan 21 18:03:54 2022
    XPost: rec.motorcycles

    On 1/20/22 22:54, badgolferman wrote:
    The most dangerous time for a biker is when a cager coming from the
    opposite direction turns left in an intersection and this video shows
    what happens.

    I have a sensible riding posture on my bike, with my feet below my hips.
    I decided long ago that when my bike hits a car head-on like that, I'll
    jump up and go over the car.

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