Close Call! I See Stupid People Everyday!

Well Macca, both incidents look partly like the riders fault to me.

With the roundabout, the cars will happily use the road if you ride in the gutter.
I`m talkin about your lane position, approaching the bout after the curve your already to the right of the right wheel track, you are entitled to use the whole lane you know. By keeping hard right, you invite the car to push in beside you particulary if thier turning left, even more so now all the bikes filter, car driver thinks nothing of being beside you, theres no panic braking, indeed he/she eases of the brakes cause theres extra meters to stop.
Same thing would happen if you were hard left in the gutter.

You need to be in the wheel tracks of the cars, right for turning right left for turning left, but not in the middle thats were the greasy shit lives. (you can even see some of that at the line in the vid.) You can still shoot though up the side if the rear ending is going to happen, (hear the screeching brakes, or check your mirror)and that case dont stop till the line so the driver of the car in front (white car) sees you.

The other right turn video , starts with the bike at level with the tail light, of the car to its right, In the invisble position, driver cant or wont see you, so why assume they wont change lanes? And what does the motorcycle hero do? , move over sure, but then try and go around the car, dangerous. better option slow down and tuck in behind. Better yet at the lights should have filtered between the 2 queues of cars, and been at the front when the lights changed, and avoided the whole thing.

Your vulnerable one you need to ride defensively, if you dont your the stupid one, not the driver.

Cheers John
 
Yep pretty much with Darkside on those ones. All my little incidents over the many years, high majority are of my fault. Coulda shoulda done them differently.The second you lose focus thats when it will happen.

Nige
 
Guys appreciate your comments, but unless you were in the saddle.....

1. First videos you assumed it was around about, it's not. It's the end of the road, L/H turning only.

2. Assumed I was hard right, I was in the R/H wheel tracks with a clear view of the White Suzuki Swifts drivers eyes through both her R/H mirror and centre mirror. You can see in the video were I ran wide to the safety of the R/H side of the white swift.

3. didn't allow for lack of depth perception with the camera's (I was well aware that the Camry was tailgating, real close, less than 1/2 car length behind me all the way from the Bli Bli round about even in the wet) The Right hand side was my escape route if she hit the skids.

I saw the woman's face in the magna as she tried to squeeze past, she knew what she was doing.

Also lack of depth perception doesn't show how close the Camry came to hitting me in the side, if her window was down I was close enough to reach out and pick her nose.

4. Second video, can't lane filter into a R/H turn when traffic is already moving. The uncut video shows this in better detail.

5. Yes I should of predicted the Magna would change lanes mid corner for his Slushie, but being the end of the 12 hr day in the office my heightened spider sensors were a little off their peak. But I also really didn't want to wear the bullbar of the Patrol bearing down on me through the corner either, so did what I did, as it was the best option for the person in the saddle at the time.

At the time, I thought being hit in the side was better that wearing a BullBar.

Still doesn't change the fact the both drivers were being careless dicks. I ride an hour each way most days of the week, these are only a couple of examples I see every day, these happened to be captured on video. I'm still avoiding getting hit in each case.

I get regular visits from the local traffic police in store (They are my clients), who have viewed the Magna video and rattled of a few of the laws the Magna driver broke and had I given them a copy of the video at the time of the offences they would of quite happily have issued the driver tickets.
 
Definitely not calling you out as stupid. We all have big miles in the saddle and see shit every day that make us shake our heads. But give someone an inch in Sydney they will take a mile. Gotta be super careful.
Would you have given the coppers the video but?
I would hate to see average Joe start handing in random vids to get people find for a dodgey bit of driving. Unless someone is hurt of course. It is already hard enough to keep your licence these days with double demerit days/weeks and multiple speed zones in one length of road.

Nige
 
Those videos all just look like a normal commute to me, nothing amazing or outstanding there. While ever the police are more interested in speed kills than lack of attention, nothing will change. Every day people turning in video evidence of wrong doing just encourages this attitude by the police. Why change their focus when the public does your work for you?

Filtering is good up to 30kph and I take advantage of that everyday because I have to... if you don't you're a sitting duck.

Here's what I saw within 1km or less on Samford Rd while filtering the other day...

The red Patrol in the left lane drifting to the right... because he has the Australian propped up on the steering wheel to read while he drives.

The silver 4WD ute in the right lane inching forward jerkily and drifting to the left because his eyes are constantly looking down at the phone in his lap.

The tradie ute in the right lane that is stationary while everyone in front of him has moved on and the left lane is moving because he is playing with his phone.

Personally I'm just a bit more concerned with getting away from those idiots although it was very tempting to have a yell at paper boy in the Patrol coz his window was down and our heads were level as I went past.
 
I just dont want people to become wanna be highway patrol. As much as I would like to pull over and fine people for using there phones and such crap. Generally good drivers that have a bit of a brain fade will start getting nicked because of some do gooda. No thanks.

Nige
 
nige501 said:
I just dont want people to become wanna be highway patrol. As much as I would like to pull over and fine people for using there phones and such crap. Generally good drivers that have a bit of a brain fade will start getting nicked because of some do gooda. No thanks.

Nige
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I don't make the videos for the police, I have a front and rear dash cam incase of the worst case scenario and I need evidence. These video are just to show there are so many stupid people out there. It's all part of the daily commute, with drivers texting, reading the paper, eating breakfast, it's seems anything but the task at hand, driving.

If I downloaded all the videos, you would see how many red-light runners we have up here, and R/H lane hogs, (who get pissed off when you pass them on the left as they are under the posted speed limit.) I had a funny one to down load, but due to no audio it wasn't as funny. I filtered to the front (Wet Day) the BMW 130 on my right decided to run me at the lights, all I could hear as I moved off the line was his wheels spinning with no forward movement haha.

The amount of accidents I see on the commute would amaze you, (The Bruce has at least one a week on my commute) thankfully lane filtering is legal or I would be sitting on the side of the road like the rest for hours. The last accident, I had drivers moving aside to let me pass, it was like watching the sea part for Moses, up until the Black Jeep who tried to block me, luckily the driver in the other lane saw it too and moved over more to let me pass, so not all cagers are bad.

Passing Aussie World is getting more challenging each week as traffic banks up on the L/H side leading up to the Off Ramp, the last time both lanes were almost at a stand still, so I lane filtered to the front only to find the reason for the R/H was being held up by someone doing under 30 in the R/H lane, at first I thought he was trying to que jump, but no he continued on doing 30 in the R/H lane after we passed the off ramp.

As for footage being used by the police, a staff member at my wife work received a knock on her door one evening from two police officers to issue her with a ticket for texting while stopped at a set of lights, she disputed it, so they showed her the footage, taken by a motorcyclist who handed it in.

So with all the Dash Cam footage being thrown about these days, take extra care out there. As the title says "I see stupid People Everyday"
 
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