| ▲ | Workaccount2 12 hours ago |
| Probably the single most important thing is learning good defensive driving. Which is different than "good driving". Lots of "good drivers" T-bone the guy who ran a red light. Defensive drivers see him barreling towards the intersection, as they check both ways despite it being green. On a motorcycle, even if a crash is not your fault, you're still dead. |
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| ▲ | jpgvm 11 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| The road to heaven is full of bikers who had right of way. |
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| ▲ | SoftTalker 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Every time I make this point to bicycling communities I'm told that I'm "victim blaming." OK, you were a victim. You're still dead. |
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| ▲ | kjkjadksj 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Bicycling communities suck for learning safety. The correct thing to do is take the full lane and take dutch lefts (turning right into perpendicular traffic then going straight to avoid changing to a left hand turn lane). People should be preaching it from the rooftops to save lives. Wouldn’t need to have bike lanes everywhere if people were fully taking lanes, forcing a merge to pass them, and being far more visible to traffic vs riding along the shoulder and getting doored and right and left hooked. The current bike lane gold standard of buffering traffic with parked cars means bikes are invisible at intersections and driveways to cars which is where many accidents tend to happen. |
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