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Njloco
Posted on Saturday, December 17, 2016 - 02:03 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

As mentioned above, 3:00pm nice sunny day, headlight on LOW beam, bright yellow helmet, yellow jacket, bright red bike, she's looking right at me coming towards her, WTF ! The scariest thing is, she's still out there !
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Reepicheep
Posted on Saturday, December 17, 2016 - 04:58 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Right, the headlight isn't going to stop her stupid, but it *will* piss the rest of us off. What did we ever do to you? ; )
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86129squids
Posted on Sunday, December 18, 2016 - 01:52 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Dangit NJ! Heal up quickly, and correctly. I have a 50 mile round-trip commute to/from West Knoxville for work- gotta deal with Alcoa/AhllKillya highway, Pellissippi Autobahn, and then F*&ktard Freeway everywhere else.

As much as I hate the commute, it seems to help me stay hyper-alert, and more vigilant whether on 2 wheels or 4.
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Aesquire
Posted on Sunday, December 18, 2016 - 08:33 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

She never "saw" you.

The Hurt Report from the 1970's lists "turns left in front of you" as the #1 car bike accident.

A follow up study asked why in every such accident the car driver said they never saw you. EVERY SINGLE TIME.

None of the offending car drivers rode a bike, had a close friend or relative ride, or thought about motorcycles. ..... at all.

So they can look right at you. Make eye contact. But the image on the retina does not become an image in the brain..you are, literally, invisible to them. There is no motorcycle in their universe. So it never processes as a living human they're about to kill as they ignore the nonsense input.

I'm Serious.

Color, strobe lights, laser light shows, NONE of that changes the disconnect between vision & comprehension.

The opposite phenomenon is easy to point out. Remember the first time you bought a (say) Honda? Then you saw every Honda on the road when they'd blurred into the pack before?

I repeat. You are invisible. They look right at you and don't see a human on a motorcycle since that's not part of their personal universe.

I have a Reactor Yellow Cyclone & wear yellow textile armor jackets. Invisible.

But every single cop I drive past sees me in 3d stereo HD. And I see them head track me until out of sight.

Perception is in the head.

They don't see you.
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Pwnzor
Posted on Sunday, December 18, 2016 - 08:38 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Load it near it's capacity, and you get noticeable squat.

That's because your vehicle manufacturer has lied about the actual capacity of the vehicle in order to sell it as something it's not.

There are many variables at play. Distribution of the load being key among them.
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Crusty
Posted on Sunday, December 18, 2016 - 08:42 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

https://youtu.be/vJG698U2Mvo
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Njloco
Posted on Sunday, December 18, 2016 - 09:31 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Aesquie,

So that would mean, that various divisions of
Motor vehicle dept's through out the country are knowingly issuing driver's licenses to people that can't pass an eye exam or driver's test, very scary !

Reep,

Sorry buddy but, the same way you got mad, is the same way you'll get glad. I see bright lights all the time, when in my pickup and in my cars, and on my bikes, during the day naturally it's not bad and, I expect to see it from motorcycles, at night, I close one eye to save my night vision, they pass, no big deal !

P.S. I hope your pelvis heals up quick !

(Message edited by njloco on December 18, 2016)
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Ratbuell
Posted on Sunday, December 18, 2016 - 10:01 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

NJ - just because people can pass an eye exam for color / clarity / "seeing"...doesn't mean their brain understands what their eyes see.

I still think EVERY driver needs to take at least the written portion of the motorcycle drivers test...even if they're only going for a cager license. If they have to study it and learn it...they may recognize it out on the roads.
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Ourdee
Posted on Sunday, December 18, 2016 - 10:45 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Joe,
I'll see your cycle endorsement and raise you a CDL. My preference is that everybody must be able to pass the tests for all vehicles occupying the same road. Look at the current tests for commercial drone use. Put them through the three day motorcycle safety course Illinois offers. Only good thing I have found in that state.
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Ratbuell
Posted on Sunday, December 18, 2016 - 12:29 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

You have an excellent point RD. When I think of some of the geriatrics I sell 38' long RV's to....wow. No wonder I'm so tired after a ride - that's a lot of attention-paying on my part just to stay alive!!
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Ourdee
Posted on Sunday, December 18, 2016 - 12:43 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Yes, it is.
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86129squids
Posted on Sunday, December 18, 2016 - 01:08 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

My stepdad has always been into "camping" with a ginormous RV- he retired from the telephone company, having that ONE job his whole life! Talk about an enviable retirement package...

Anyhoo- when he married my mom, she became the "navigator". The dangdest thing about him is that he has a condition called "anklyosing spondylitis" (miracle if I spelled that right)- his spine, shoulders and neck have essentially locked up. He can't look up or around without moving his entire body to do so. Talk about me being nervous, thinking about them in the land barge!
To his credit though- my stepdad never let his condition slow him down.

Still, I get ya Joe. I've another buddy who sells RV's... even when I was still selling HD, there were many times I'd wonder about this old fella piloting a half-ton of metal safely and correctly.

I will say this: I trust the old folks to drive better than about any of today's teens and twentysomethings, who can't see or interpret reality without their idiotphones and an app or something. Yeesh.
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