"davedave1111" (davedave1111)
03/09/2014 at 14:03 • Filed to: None
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"davedave1111" (davedave1111)
03/09/2014 at 14:03 • Filed to: None | 2
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I was slightly distracted while driving, earlier, and pulled into the wrong lane at some lights for the direction I wanted to go. I flipped on the indicator, checked the surrounding traffic, waited for the lights to change. As they did, I started to pull left, only to hear a horn behind me, and see a motorbike braking hard in my left-side blind-spot. (Right hand drive car.) He'd been filtering between the lanes a bit quickly, and I hadn't seen him at all. He could have been riding more defensively, but it was still wholly my mistake.
It was a nice day, so I had the windows all the way down. Motorbiker came up to the window and I said 'I'm so sorry, that was my fault'. He started shouting and raging for a second as if I'd just blamed him, then did a literal double-take and said 'what did you just say?' I apologised again, he looked nonplussed, apologised as well, and then rode off.
jkm7680
> davedave1111
03/09/2014 at 14:06 |
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Haha, split personality I guess?
Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura
> davedave1111
03/09/2014 at 14:10 |
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Left Hand Drive, man. Right hand drive fucking sucks in LHD countries.
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davedave1111
> jkm7680
03/09/2014 at 14:14 |
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Having ridden a bike in London traffic, I think it was probably just sheer surprise at not being blamed...
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davedave1111
> Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura
03/09/2014 at 14:14 |
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This is a RHD country :)
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jkm7680
> davedave1111
03/09/2014 at 14:16 |
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Yeah, that would probably it. That's one reason why I don't lane split, unless there is heavy, slow moving traffic. I agree that he thought, that you would start yelling at him, and then he noticed that you weren't yelling at him.
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davedave1111
> jkm7680
03/09/2014 at 14:23 |
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Well, frankly I think he was a total dumbass to do what he did. I'm pretty good at seeing bikers, and I made a mistake that could have killed him. He was legally in the right, but that wouldn't have kept him out of hospital, and other people would be a lot less likely to have seen him, or to have reacted to his horn in time.
Then again, it would have been fine depending on his speed, and I didn't actually see how fast he was going, just the end of his emergency stop. Judging by the compression of the forks, though, he'd been doing 20 or 30 mph between stationary cars. That's 10-20 mph too fast,in my book.
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jkm7680
> davedave1111
03/09/2014 at 14:25 |
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Yeah, I don't agree with his actions while riding. In heavy traffic, 10mph with stationary cars would be acceptable, if any splitting at all. It seems there are a lot of lane changes, and erratic drivers in heavy traffic normally.
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davedave1111
> jkm7680
03/09/2014 at 14:36 |
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Yeah, less than optimal riding. But it's a bad junction from a motorcyclist's point of view.
Hopefully streetview will work:
Normally you'd want to go around everything on the right, but then all those cars in the right hand lane are going to turn right. I think that's still what I'd do as long as the lights were red, just as long as there's time to get all the way to the front and over to the left hand lane. But if not, you could get stuck out there until the traffic clears or the lights change again, because you won't get back into the left hand lane safely once things start moving.
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jkm7680
> davedave1111
03/09/2014 at 14:42 |
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I see what you are saying. The street view helped me with the concept. I personally wouldn't filter at all in that situation, and when I need to. It is on the highway.
evil2win
> davedave1111
03/09/2014 at 15:01 |
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you made the world a little bit of better place to live. We should be as civil. It throws people off guard.
desertdog5051
> davedave1111
03/09/2014 at 18:35 |
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Where ever you are is certainly not the US. Gunfire would have been exchanged.
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davedave1111
> desertdog5051
03/09/2014 at 18:39 |
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Oh no, there was no need to shoot him. He wasn't French .
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desertdog5051
> davedave1111
03/09/2014 at 18:46 |
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George Thorogood: "Now you funny too". So my deductive capabilities tell me you are British. The Canucks talk the same way about the French and Quebec folks.
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davedave1111
> desertdog5051
03/10/2014 at 05:36 |
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More specifically, English, not British. The Scots have been allied with France for a long, long time, on the basis of 'my enemy's enemy'...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auld_Alli…